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Blog postTo understand what constitutes experience and what has constituted experience throughout different eras of technology, I offer this timeline of what characterized and will characterize experiences throughout the major eras of recent and forthcoming technology. We are somewhere around the social-enabled and “smart” era, with elements of the “intelligent” era beginning to show up and …
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Blog postvia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_humanism
What about blogs? When I first started mine, I had a small group of friends who posted pretty much daily, often nothing longer than a longish Facebook post. We all read and commented on one another’s posts.
Source: Time for a blog renaissance | David B. Thomas
Totally. I’m all for a blog renaissance, for a revival of the blogging arts, for Blogging 2.0 or 3.0 or 6.3 or whatever it would be now.
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Blog postLet’s say you have a question regarding your bank account, so you visit your bank’s website to find a phone number to call them. While you’re looking for that, a chat box pops up in the corner of the window, asking if you’d like to chat live with an agent for help. “Why not?” you think to yourself, and click to start the conversation.
So far so good, but let’s say your question is how you can protect your account from your ex who may still have access. You explain the situation and the -
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Blog postthe Chicago River dyed green, photo taken by Mike Boehmer from Chicago, via Wikipedia
Although I lived in Chicago for many St. Patrick’s Days, there was only one year I actually saw the boats out dyeing the river green, and that was in 2003 as I walked to the court house with the first great love of my life, Karsten Soltauer, to get married. We paused for a while to lean over a bridge and watch the boats cruising around in the river pouring in bags of dye behind them, turning their wa -
Blog post“Should The Giant Zero be a book?”
Heck yes. I’d read and highlight the crap out of it.
Also, if you haven’t already, please pick up a copy of my book Pixels and Place (and/or send me an address in the great physical world of distances where I can send you a signed one) because we are aligned on a lot of our thinking and I would LOVE to discuss all this with you sometime.
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Blog postI would never claim to know more about love than most people. All humans — and maybe non-human animals too — probably come equipped with a fairly intuitive understanding of it. But as a widow, having seen the one I then loved most in the world die, my view of what love is and what it does and what it means is perhaps unusually clear. And since I’m now remarried, I can test myself every day on how practical what I see is.
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Blog postBravo. This is a brilliant piece of writing.
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Blog postI dreamed that the title of the book I’m working on in reality, which doesn’t yet have a firm title, was “0 the Humanity” — 0 as in zero, as in binary 1s and 0s, referring of course to data and technology and their impact on humanity. Which is indeed what the book is about. Read more about “0 the Humanity”[…]
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Blog postThis part gives me such a heart ache. There’s always that weird relationship between your current self and younger self when you read something you wrote long ago, even when it isn’t something this intense and intentionally life-altering, but you’ve brought this feeling to life so vividly here. Wow.
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Blog postI recognize this moment. The difference between that visceral first reaction to experiencing something profound and every subsequent reaction. Well recounted.
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Blog postA long time ago I read something Kevin Smith said about how if you ever thought you might be a filmmaker, guess what: you are. I don’t remember how he said it exactly, but what I took away was that if you want to be a filmmaker, you have to both decide you are a filmmaker and, y’know, actually make films.
I’m not a filmmaker, but I’m a writer. I identify as a writer. It’s easy because I’ve been one all my life. I have the body of work: I’ve written b -
Blog post2012 was one of the most profoundly life-altering years for me. I lost my husband, I became chronically injured, my business struggled from my inability to focus on it, many of my friends went through illnesses, divorces, and family deaths of their own — no kidding, it was a very hard time. But in mid-December Read more about Five Years, and The Good Things on the Other Side of Acceptance[…]
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Blog postI know things don’t always work out.
I know life doesn’t last. Life is finite.
I know love survives death.
But I also know sometimes love doesn’t work out, doesn’t last, doesn’t live up to all of its promises.
I know bad things happen to good people.
I know all of this.
And yet I know this, too:
I know it’s still possible to be happy.
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Blog postThank you for featuring my Tech Humanist Manifesto! One very nice side benefit of having written that piece is that it helped me connect with likeminded folks like you. Cheers!
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Blog postBy “for most” I meant that we need to think a lot more like “for each” than “for few” but I take your point. I will think further on what you’ve written. Thank you.
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Blog postI am extremely picky about the nuances, and I always appreciate thoughtful feedback. I’ll consider further what you’ve written here. Thank you for the reading recommendations.
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Blog postFive years ago today was the last day I got to spend with Karsten, although of course I didn’t know it at the time. People always think that if they could have a day back to spend with someone who’s gone, that they’d live it so differently. But most of the time there’s no heads-up Read more about Love on your people[…]
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Blog postThe “selfie emoji”/bitmoji feature in Google’s new chat app #Allo is well integrated and should drive adoption. The app also features AI in the form of its machine learning capability, encouraging users to interact with a chatbot assistant that learns and adapts. But to do that at scale requires widespread adoption, so they turned to …
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Blog postI’m back visiting my old home town of Nashville for a few days, and had a super-fun breakfast conversation with Mary Laura Philpott this morning during which she mentioned that she sometimes gets automatically tagged in photos as Nashville mayor Megan Barry. The two bear a passing resemblance but not enough that you’d probably think to comment on it. She also mentioned that she has occasionally heard that she looks like Reese Witherspoon (although she never hears that in N
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Blog postBusinesses are finally starting to catch on that a disciplined approach to improving the customer experience leads to profit. That’s the starting point, and it’s fantastic. But what’s the next step? What’s beyond improving the customer experience? Well, we can think about the customer not merely as a customer, but as a well-rounded human being, who …
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Blog postRather, the most interesting things about Pokemon Go have to do with connected experiences, and the sweeping changes these are bringing: new marketing models, opportunities with augmented reality, location-based marketing, and all the assorted issues with data privacy and security. The most interesting things about the Pokemon Go phenomenon have nothing to do with the game itself and everything …
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Blog postThe thing about the Internet of Things is it isn’t about the things; it’s about the people. The “things,” for the most part, are designed to create more connected experiences for humans. And the data layer that connects the digital experiences to the physical world through our gestures and actions is our data. The transactional …
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Blog postYou probably know, as most people do, that Netflix was all about renting unlimited DVDs before pivoting into streaming, but what you may not know is that before launching that DVD subscription program, they started out as a service to rent DVDs a la carte, just like Blockbuster, except online and through the mail. When they hit upon the idea of …
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Blog postSuch a simple post by Suzanne Vega; such a beautiful story.
I found my letter from #Prince pic.twitter.com/m57p9UQprK
— Suzanne Vega (@suzyv) April 25, 2016
In case you can’t read the writing (although I think the penmanship, which is presumably Prince’s, is charming), it says:
Dearest Suzanne,
Luka is the most compelling piece of music I’ve heard in a long time. There are no words 2 tell u all the things I feel when I hear it.
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Blog postA truly wonderful thing about living in New York City: events like the New York Public Library’s Live from the NYPL series. Last night, they hosted Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s finance minister amidst the country’s financial crisis, and Noam Chomsky. I don’t give Noam Chomsky a bio because to me he’s a living legend, but if you’re not Read more about Noam Chomsky weighs in on Bernie Sanders’ impact at last night’s Live from the NYPL[…]
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Blog postSitting in the Shakespeare Garden this morning, soaking up the sun and the homage to the Bard, I can’t help but think about the work of creativity, and its place in culture, and how that is subject to change over time, or not. Creative endeavors always bear the burden of every genius who came before. Read more about Creativity and Change: The more things change, the more the timeless stuff matters[…]
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Blog postI got a ticket in the mail yesterday for running a red light. Well, it wasn’t a ticket, exactly. It was a “notice of an administrative fee” for a red light violation that allegedly happened while I was driving a rented car in my mom’s town the day before her birthday. The ticket itself apparently …
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Blog postI often work at coffee shops. A lot of other people do, too, of course. But since it’s my nature to think about meaning and what makes different human experiences meaningful in different ways, I sometimes find myself deconstructing the experience of what it means to work in a coffee shop. Overthinking it? OK, maybe. But I’m …
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Blog postThe fun thing about owning your own company is that every now and then you get to institutionalize ideas that inspire and excite you. Back when I owned a digital analytics agency, I instituted the practice of encouraging employees to spend the week of Thanksgiving engaged in big picture thinking, for themselves and the company. …
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Blog postWe had a lot of calendars around the house when I was growing up. Probably one in every room. The kind that used to be given away by businesses with their name and address on the bottom, so they’d hang on the wall all year as a reminder of their service. They’d display a month …
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