How can we teach kids media literacy so they grow up to be discerning?
Category: anthropology
Impervious to Change
Work looks the same as play today. Hard to tell if you’re on Insta or looking at spreadsheets accounting just sent over.
TAG, you’re it.
Yesterday was kind of a big deal, celebrated quietly inside my own heart. It was the 10th anniversary of the day I completed a labor of love that changed my life for so much the better.
On Star Wars & Making Choices
Self-indulgent meditation on role models.
Peter Gabriel is Right About Jargon
Generally speaking, don’t use jargon. Just, don’t.
Stepdadding: verb.
Stepdadding (sp?) is, without a doubt, one of the most challenging things I have ever taken on in my life. Here’s a part of my stepdad story. An off-the-top-of-my-head inventory of past experiences I draw insights from almost every day in my quest to be a solid stepdad? The list includes experiences like this: Designing…
VR, AR + MR: Designing the New Reality Experience
This was published on InVision that version here.
Trends, once, again.
Change is a big theme this time of year, the only time we seem to be collectively on board with change is now, at the changing of the calendar. Oh, funny life. In any case, we all enjoy taking a look back, and a look forward, at trends, methods, tools and strategies that worked well,…
Perfect is the enemy of good
WARNING – This is a long post. Something Dad used to say came into my mind yesterday, a variation on Voltaire’s wisdom: “Don’t let perfection get in the way of your best!” He used to tell me this especially while I was stymying myself by procrastinating on this or that. His words resonate today, even…
Adaptation, Semiotics, and Being Cool with Things
My awareness of the word ‘adaptation’ began as a 5th grader in Mr. Johnson’s 6th grade class.
I didn’t go to university. I learned from Linux instead.
TOUGH CHOICES When I chose to forego college, preferring instead to join the working world confident that doors would open, there were a lot of the kinds of reactions one might expect. Most asked things like: “what are you thinking?” “why would you do such a thing?” “what are you planning to do instead?” My…
Blending: Building A New World Family
This is the first time I’ve ever done this and, since I’ve spent seemingly countless middle-of-the-night hours reading everyone else’s opinion about it on the Internet, I will offer my own out of respect for others – now knowing just what it feels like, having only imagined it up until now. If you are like…
Rituals
Is it a tough debate that rituals have not been affected by recent changes in our modern age? Do many people spend more time alone with machines than in the company of others? Have machines conversely opened doors to more rituals for more people? Are the new rituals, such as sitting together at a restaurant…
R2 me, too
I was 5 years old when my parents took me to my first movie. It wasn’t just a movie. It was a drive-in movie. It wasn’t just a drive-in movie. It was Star Wars. Needless to say, it flipped me right out. Unlike most of my pals at the time, though, who called out “I’m…
Does empathy bridge art + engineering?
It takes a special something, a combination of unique experience and compatible disposition, to effectively temper hard sciences with soft ones in practice. Everything may very well come back to user experience, not only in the product (the outcome) but also in the process (the story). Empathy is arguably a key component of both hard…
All in the telling
The latest technologies, including cloud, social, anything mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have and will continue to transform business, especially the customer experience, which still revolves around the story. Storytelling is still the centerpiece. Nothing new there. Storytelling has been the centerpiece since before anyone could even write….
Telling stories
We can’t throw a rock across the Web without hitting one of the many articles, posts, books, podcasts or interviews focused on the use of storytelling in business. Arguably kicking the magic out of the hat, most of them address the way stories are used in marketing goods and services (yawn). We need to think…
On being a fan
It is an understatement to say YouTube has changed things. It has replaced Encyclopedia Britannica (merely an artifact from another age of learning) as the de-facto go-to resource for everything everyone may want to know, including how to fix an engine, cook dinner using a recipe, even how to tie our shoes. It is a…
Human potential, pushing boundaries, and the International Race of Champions
We have always pushed the boundaries of what is possible. That’s why we love things like the circus, competition, and pursuit in general, especially, perhaps, from great heights. Certainly, there are many moving parts to our success in pushing the envelope of what is possible, how fast we can go, how far we can push,…
Collaboration, the art of alliance, and recognizing strengths in others
Recently, some educators I work with asked me what I thought the most important skill children can learn is. The question came to me in the context of technology, as I am responsible for technology operations and integration at a private school in the city of Chicago. I try to answer these questions as best…
Dr. Walter Soboleff
This piece speaks for itself:
portfolio: stills
What a year it’s been so far: