The Age of Digital Ghost Cities
What Cory Doctorow and Seth Godin can teach us about building lasting digital civilizations Seth Godin recently wrote that we are living in ghost cities — digital metropolises that rise…
Dashboards Have Eaten the World
“Perhaps the only dashboard worth building now is the one that measures how little we’re looking at the others.” The Infection Our brains are under attack. Slowly, imperceptibly, and with…
Intention > Automation
We are living in the age of automation, artificial intelligence, and a whole lot of unquestioned assumptions. And one of the biggest assumptions is that automation is always desirable.If something…
Since When Is Artificial Good
Exploring why human judgment remains indispensable in an age of AI. Real ingredients are good. Artificial ingredients are bad. Except when it comes to intelligence. We recoil at synthetic flavors,…
Losing the IT Productivity Battle
Information technology is not really about productivity anymore, it is really about self perpetuation and expansion. It is not about users and customers anymore, if it truly ever was. Sure,…
The Great SaaS-Lighting: How IT Users Got Gaslit
But that’s not quite the way it worked out, is it? Maybe they meant it when they said it, but it is not the driving force behind the great SaaS purveyors…
The Ridiculous Blog
Hundreds of posts on a topic that apparently no one gives a fuck about. It is only the most important topic in the history of the world. The discovery, transmittal…
Noise Plus Interruption Doesn’t Equal Information Management
The formula for effective information management is a little more nuanced than that. Survival in the real world often requires the ability to block out distractions and focus on what…
Optimization Ruins Everything
Optimize this process, optimize that. Optimize for X. Sometimes it is just a waste of brain power and energy. It doesn’t really matter what you are trying to optimize, the…
The Most Unworkable Idea of All: Centralized Control
On the surface, centralized control makes all the sense in the universe. Unfortunately, the universe has an infinite amount of sense and an infinite amount of nonsense. A world with…