Monthly archive for April2023

Monday musing on the industrial substrate – 4/17/23

The world we live in today is built on top of an industrialized substrate that was created in the early 20th Century. From education, to business, to governance, we’ve been building on top of this substrate for over a hundred years without questioning it. And…

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Friday links and objects of interest – 4/14/23

  — Daniel Suarez has a great series of sci-fi books I’ve been catching up on. The first book in the series, Delta-V, is excellent and I’d highly recommend it. I got into Suarez’s work back when I read Daemon and then Freedom(TM), and can…

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Monday musing on games and alternatives – 4/10/23

Computer games, more so than many other artistic mediums, are bound by their delivery mechanisms. Think of the last five games you’ve played, and how you’ve interacted with them. Quite likely, your experience went something like this: your hands engaged with a standard control interface…

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Friday links and objects of interest – 4/7/23

It was over a decade ago that I started my first NFP (non-profit). Since then, I’ve chaired various NFP organizations or served as an officer or administrator within them. Something’s changed over that time — they’ve gotten more ravenous. Desirous of funding at any cost…

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Monday Musing on Artifice

Innovation has been reduced to simply building upon existing industrial-era systems and methods, as has disruption. Think about it – can you name a single instance of disruption that did not rely on an already-established industrial system? We must go beyond this surface level and…

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