Brand America, At Work
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Ozymandias
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet ... Read more
Nine Time Horizons – Connecting the Past to the Future
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Update added the Time Horizon timeline which includes events at various time bands. Regular readers of this blog know that I intermittently opine on what are appropriate time horizons. This it seems is an underlying feature of many failures and successes in many areas of human behavior. Allow me to present some recent ... Read more
All that glisters is not gold
Updated 03-Aug-2025 All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold. Had you been as wise as bold, Young in limbs, in judgement old Your answer had not been inscroll'd Fare you well, your suit ... Read more
It’s coming to America
Updated 03-Aug-2025 It's coming to America first, the cradle of the best and of the worst. It's here they got the range and the machinery for change and it's here they got the spiritual thirst. It's here the family's broken and it's here the lonely say that the heart has got to open in a ... Read more
The Six Mistakes of Man – Cicero
Updated 03-Aug-2025 The delusion that personal gain is made by crushing others. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading ... Read more
Habitum Alteram Naturam – Part 3
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Simplicity and Complexity Habits are simple, nature complex. This formulation is meant to help understand how to talk about and act regarding the future. Change is necessary, and it is even possible. How do we conceive of this possibility? How do we talk about it? The real question regarding talk, is to what ... Read more
Habitum Alteram Naturam – Part 2
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Talkin' 'bout the future Talking about the future has two senses, the first is along the lines of "just talk" as opposed to action. The second sense has talking as a part of bringing the future into being. The best way to predict the future is to create it. --Peter Drucker The Monk ... Read more
Futurology and Development
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Any future must and will actually come from places like Manila and Bangkok. At the very least it will find a home there. The present discourse around futurology is predominantly driven and reflected of the developed world. The future is a developed future along the trajectory of current developed nations. And thereby leaves ... Read more
Habitum Alteram Naturam – Part 1
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Habit changes nature Habit and Nature Some might suggest we are human doing, rather than human being. I believe it was Aristotle who suggested it is what we do that makes us what we are. There is no essential being underneath our actions, per se, but the actions and the beings are concomitant. ... Read more
Hard Ass
Updated 03-Aug-2025
Enchanted Objects
Updated 03-Aug-2025 There is a mesh of interesting things going on here. The idea is we will interact with objects and in places in new ways to produce new experiences. - Microsoft Surface - Natural Interaction - Human Joysticks - Valli (2007) Natural Interaction Whitepaper - The Coming Age of Magic Kuniavsky (2007) Update: Of ... Read more