“All of the empty wants to hold you. It feels better in your blush.”
[free flow of free thought]
4 months ago
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The beautiful #Christmas present from my wonderful woman. Note the words throughout. #jellyfish #art #quote
7 months ago
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During the mechanical ages we extended our bodies into space.
Today, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time.
Rapidly, we approach the final phase of the extensions of man— the technological simulation of consciousness, when the creative process of knowing will be collectively and corporately extended to the whole of human society…
"- Marshall McLuhan
7 months ago
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As we go about our daily lives, we leave two records of our existence. The first is our physical presence.
The other is a shadow world of code inscribed in mobile phone records, financial transactions, traffic patterns and social media.
The two mirror each other with extraordinary accuracy.
Our data profile reveals not just movements but incredibly intimate details about daily life, from early symptoms of mental illness to the stirrings of mass movements on the scale of nations.
"- Michael J. Coren
7 months ago
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I believe we are in a critical moment in our civilization’s development, one where we will face a number of fateful decisions about how we interact with each other, with
business, and with government.
The decisions we make during this period will frame the kind of world we’ll leave to future generations.
Who will control the data we create? What access will we allow citizens to the machinations of government? What kind of people will we become when every single one of us is deeply connected to a socially aware platform like Facebook?
Are we building systems – in healthcare, energy, finance – that are too complicated for any of us to understand, much less control?
"- John Battele, Federated Media
11 months ago
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"We are not seats or eyeballs or end users or consumers. We are human beings, and our reach exceeds your grasp. Deal with it."
- Chris Locke in The Cluetrain Manifesto
1 year ago
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If excitement is contagious, I want to start an epidemic.
1 year ago
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This gif made my day.
And then this more serious quote showed up in my searchings:
Without having seen the Sistine Chapel one can form no appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving.
—Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 1787
1 year ago
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I read a great article. It’s lengthy, but here’s what struck me:
Every person develops a persona, and that persona persists because inconsistencies in your personal narrative get rewritten, redacted and misinterpreted. If you are like most people, you have high self-esteem and tend to believe you are above average in just about every way. It keeps you going, keeps your head above water, so when the source of your own behavior is mysterious you will confabulate a story which paints you in a positive light. If you are on the other end of the self-esteem spectrum and tend to see yourself as undeserving and unworthy, you will rewrite nebulous behavior as the result of attitudes consistent with the persona of an incompetent person, deviant, or whatever flavor of loser you believe yourself to be. Successes will make you uncomfortable so you will dismiss them as flukes. If people are nice to you, you will assume they have ulterior motives or are mistaken. Whether you love or hate your persona, you protect the self with which you’ve become comfortable. When you observe your own behavior, or feel the gaze of an outsider, you manipulate the facts so they match your expectations.
Sum, ergo cogito.
