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Drawing Board

This is really where the ethos of the digital garden challenges the traditional ideas of a website or blog. Here is where I'm capturing some of my early-stage ideas, concept sketches and working fragments. Some may be refined further into a full essay or framework. Others might just gradually fade into the archives. Putting these still forming (or never fully-formed) sketches and concepts out here for others to see is really about showing my thinking and inviting feedback and collaboration.

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5 coulds vs. the one should

AI gives us plenty of coulds. The real value — the thing a trusted advisor gives you — is the should.

nearly 2 months ago

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Shift in interfaces

From humans instructing computers, to computers talking to humans — the history of interfaces is really a story of who is adapting to whom.

nearly 2 months ago

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Dupes and authenticity

AI is the latest in our ability to duplicate. What does that mean for scarcity, value, and authenticity?

8 months ago

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“One of the uber skills of leadership in the 21st century is going to be mastering metaphors”

— Michael Henderson

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“There are no solutions. Only trade-offs”

— Thomas Sowell

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Wanderers

An uplifting short-film on space exploration

Note Personal opinion or project

Dear Facebook

Can you fix this please?

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“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”

— Mark Twain

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