“The better you understand context, the more likely you will see how easily you can be missing out on it.” Tyler Cowen, “Context is that which is scarce” Magnus Neilsson‘s “Nordic Cookbook” is one of my favorite books, primarily for how it opens: “If you follow the recipes to the dot as printed in the …
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GWAR’s Tiny Desk Concert
Forty years after their creation GWAR played an NPR Tiny Desk Concert. If you need a reminder to really, intensely, focus on who you are and what you want to contribute to the world, no matter how seemingly weird and tasteless it may seem to others – this is that reminder.
Making Time
(or On the Founder-Idea Obsession) There have been a handful of times, less than 20 across my entire life, where I’ve been obsessed with an idea. Yes, unhealthily obsessed. So obsessed I have temporarily neglected other obligations including my own health. Obsessed where I steal every possible moment to slip into the obsession. I’ve regularly …
Are They a Customer?
In my work with entrepreneurs, it’s not unusual to spend a substantial amount of time discussing who the customer for the product in question. Yes, spending so much time on such a foundational question may seem a bit silly. It’s only an indication of how limited our day-to-day transaction experience is relative to the richness …
Media Tetrad: Generative AI
While generative AI (ChatGPT, etc) is red hot right now, and I’ve been rather cool on it. All of my experiments with it have resulted in rather ‘meh’, uninteresting, completely predictable outcomes. Maybe I’m missing something. Which takes me to one of my favorite tools for thinking through effects and consequences comprehensively, McLuhan’s Tetrad. While …
Product is a trailing indicator of demand. Marketing is a leading indicator of demand. In between is art.
Earthed
I’ve always enjoyed the environment message within ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ it’s like a kid-friendly version of Harrison Ford is the Ocean. Nature can reclaim the earth. The world will continue on without us. It’s happened before:
Staying On Track 2022
Every Commitment is in the Calendar. For personal and family commitments, I use Apple Calendar. I’ve set up calendars for each person in the house w/ a phone (currently 4 people) + an overall ‘Family’ calendar. All these calendars sync across (at least) nine devices in hopes an up-to-date calendar will always be right at …
Don’t Reschedule; Commit or Cancel
The world doesn’t actually care if you do the things on your calendar. It’ll keep spinning either way. In fact, in many ways it would prefer that you just didn’t. For, every time you do – the world changes a little bit. ‘Doing’ starts an chain reaction of cause and effect unsettling the natural course …
History is a highly aggressive compression algorithm
I say this as I’m trying to extract 100ish people from being considered redundant.