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Blog postAt the beginning of March, I published a post here sharing my Speaker Strategy Clarity Model. But in the weeks since then (which have felt more like years), conferences and events large and small have been canceled or rescheduled, our everyday vocabulary now includes phrases like “social distancing” and “flatten the curve,” and — hopefully …
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Blog postI am a professional speaker, and while I don’t speak about speaking, I do often get asked for input on how people can get into speaking, become better speakers, grow their speaking business, and so on. And I like to be able to be helpful when I can. So at one of the recent opportunities …
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Blog postA few weeks ago I had the pleasure of seeing Koyaanisqatsi again, but for the first time on the big screen. (I’ve owned this movie and the rest of the Qatsi series on DVD for decades.) If you’ve never seen it, it’s a 1982 movie with no dialogue about a way of living that is …
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Blog postOne thing I said during last night’s “future of work”-themed event for Envoy in Atlanta (which will be re-broadcast as a webinar on January 30th) that I probably haven’t said enough elsewhere about human-centric digital transformation is that when it comes to people and productivity, we shouldn’t start with efficiency. That shouldn’t be the leading measure. In general, efficiency is for processes. People contribute to processes, but what they contribute to those processes is often of higher v
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Blog postA recurring theme throughout my research, writing, and speaking has been the “future of work.” Er, or maybe the “future of jobs.” One reason they’re so hard to talk about is they’re not the same thing. The future of work has to do with the way companies will achieve productivity in an increasingly automated ecosystem. …
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Blog postWhile business tends to focus on the future of work and humans tend to focus on the future of jobs, the real potential for the future is in aligning them.
A baby interacting with Pepper the robot, taken from https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/37017614286/ (CC BY 2.0) When I speak with groups of executives about emerging technology, digital transformation, and the future of human experiences, every group eventually tends to ask the same questions about the future of work. They -
Blog postAs we head into 2020, I’m still obsessed with the integration of human experience. My work over the last two decades in technology has often been centered on the user or the customer. What I began to realize was first of all that when we talk about the “user“ or the “customer“ that we are …
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Blog postThis time of year is my absolute favorite because for me it’s so much about relaxed reflection and setting intentions for the year — or even the decade! — ahead. And this year, with Christmas and New Years Day falling mid-week, all normal work schedules seem disrupted, creating extra space throughout these final weeks and …
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Blog postReading today both that Sumatran rhinos are extinct in Malaysia (only 80 of the species are left in Indonesia now) largely due to poaching for their horns, and that koalas are in ever-greater danger (even if they may not be “functionally extinct” as a few now-viral articles have claimed) due to habitat loss from the bushfires which are worsening likely due to human effects on climate. There are untold consequences of human effects for humans everywhere too, of course, but the suffering of ani
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Blog postBeing a “resident” (speaker) at the House of Beautiful Business was a unique and memorable experience:
My sessions were well attended and people were engaged:
This was my first time in Lisbon — it was gorgeous. I already want to go back:
Tile everywhere:
I ate and drank like vegan royalty:
We even took a side trip to Cascais on our last day in town:
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Blog postI’m reminded by my memories on Facebook (yes, I still have Facebook for a variety of reasons — that’s a separate post) that it was two years ago that Robbie and I took a side trip to the Grand Canyon and Antelope Canyon after I delivered a keynote for the Arizona CIO/CTO Forum. I’m so …
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Blog postIt was an honor and a joy to guest lecture at my undergrad alma mater University of Illinois at Chicago last week. The campus was totally the same and completely different, and it was fun to revisit the places that were so meaningful to me 25 years ago. Oh, and the students were almost without …
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Blog post“The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.”
— John Cage I’ve been traveling a lot these last few years and it’s always an interesting temptation, everywhere I go, to judge the places I visit in terms of whether I could live there, whether it’s cool, whether it’s beautiful. But I find the most satisfying experiences are had when I can remind myself to appreciate -
Blog postThe Adobe Summit has been taking place in Las Vegas this week, and having attended as part of the Adobe Insiders influencers program, I’ve…
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Blog postI’m thankful to Tony and Camille Chatman for including us in their family Thanksgiving celebration — and then humbling us hard at the family domino game.
The Chatman family and me at dinner; not pictured because he’s taking the photo is Robbie Quinn
The table
Close-up of place setting
The domino game
Looking from their balcony across the East River to Long Island City, Queens
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Blog post“Excuse me”—
I keep walking. As one does. Vaguely aware of two young women sitting off to the side of the sidewalk and laughing, I quickly come to the conclusion that they’re trying to ask for money.
But the voice repeats and gets to the point more quickly:
— “excusemecanyoutakeapictureofus?”
I turn to see two 20-something women sitting on a sidewalk bench bundled up for the cold and glowing with leftover laughter from whatever had them cracking up just before this m -
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 postWith humans and automation sharing many customer care responsibilities, the answer’s not totally straightforward
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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.
It seemed quite clever, except in the dream as I was being introduced before keynotes and book readings, people kept pronouncing it “zero the humanity.” Which sounds, well, kind of like the opposite of the underlyi -
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 with only two weeks left, the year did at least one thing right: it threw me in the path of someone who ultimately helped me reimagine the rest of my life as uncharted territory yet to
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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 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 notice that this day that you’re spending is the last one, so, y’know, you’d better make it good. In other words, even though it sounds trite to say “appreciate the time you have with the people you love,” if there’
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