“Productivity is often a distraction. Don’t aim for better ways to get through your tasks as quickly as possible, rather aim for better tasks that you never want to stop doing.” - Kevin Kelly through Zine
Ideas: People were asking for a poverty simulator - none exist. SNAP challenges - IRL “games” to live. Even CEOs play it.
Leading to GameDev ethos - we should have the same for engineers. Canadian engineers have an iron Ring that goes with an Oath written by Kipling.
There’s a marketplace to buy small SaaS projects.
Recently heard of Baader-Meinhof ?
LinkedIn future of skills. UK construction just loves CSCS, SMSTS, IPAF.
Tokyo's Manuscript Writing Cafe only allows writers on a deadline, and won't let them leave until finishedConsumed: Still on Future Shock and the Crucible of time. Seen I'm thinking of ending things, weird stuff. Podcast on creating Innovation.
Produced: BAU.
Met: MRI friends at ISMRM ‘22. Visits to Aberdeen and Berlin ahead to rock opensource mri consoles. Consoles remind me of Neuromancer.
Exploration: Podcasts for colleagues - thought leadership.
AOB: Cloud squatting: getting an IP to receive previous traffic.
Shareable: Giant Brains, or Machine that think. Early thoughts about the changes from computers - 1949. PDF. Visionary, but maybe less than the end of the internets “The Machine Stops” by E. M. Forster, published in 1909.
Backlog: Watch Social Dilemna. The Pentaverate.
