PinnedMember-only#CareerAdviceForWomen: Three Ideas … From A ManCould a guy say anything relevant about building women’s careers? He could tell you what men do to build careers. He could tell you what parts of career building are gender agnostic. At the very least, he could probably tell you what is missing. As an investor in Innovation Women…Careers4 min readCareers4 min read
PinnedMember-onlyChildren’s Books Have Evolved- Where Should They Be Going?Go back to the very first picture book you recall reading. Was it an illustrated nursery rhyme? Was it a children’s comic? Was it bit fancier with real photos? Whatever it was, probably the most vivid part of that memory was the discovery, reading and sharing of a magical world…Books6 min readBooks6 min read
PinnedMember-onlyWhy I Love Oleg Zubkov … And Taigan … And TarzanYou ever thump a full grown lion? With affection … and friendship even? There is only one human on earth who does that. Regularly. To about 80 tawny hellcats. He does not bat an eyelid if they are striped or spotted or maned or murderous looking. That’s right. …Animals3 min readAnimals3 min read
3 days agoMember-onlyGrief Tech, Digital Coffin, Singularity, Upload Consciousness To Cloud?For years now we have been hearing about an impending singularity event where we humans can upload our consciousness into the cloud before we physically expire. And there is now a little thing called Grief Tech based on burgeoning Generative AI. …AI5 min readAI5 min read
Aug 24Member-onlyOMG! Us Injuns Landed On The Moon.My first reaction is: god help the already lawless traffic on the moon. My second reaction is: how in heck did a teeming nation of weirdly hairy, never listen to each other, always jockeying for position in traffic and rule sidesteppin mofo’s land something on the moon. And my last…Moon5 min readMoon5 min read
Aug 14Member-onlyThings Your Museum Or Guide Cannot Do For Your Visitors … YetCould your current museum guide or collateral tell your visitors anything more than standard boilerplate about any exhibit? Could your museum guides (even the human ones) show or point your visitors to enthralling pop culture around an exhibit? Could your museum or guide have simultaneous one on one conversations…Museums6 min readMuseums6 min read
Aug 4Member-onlyGender Fluid Superheroes: SuperThem? BatNonBinary? Genderless Guardians Of The Galaxy? Wonder W…hatever?At the outset, I want to affirm that you can be whatever you want. I acknowledge your right and am happy you can think and be freely. However, just for fun — a few questions: Most super heroes have at best a gender opposite who is a completely different character…Culture5 min readCulture5 min read
Jul 21Member-onlyThe Utter Contradiction Of AI And Deep Fake In EntertainmentWhat does it mean when actors say they do not want their “acting” to be replaced by AI generated versions of themselves? Several things come together to elicit my comment on this — the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, the “Joan Is Awful” episode of Black Mirror’s current season on Netflix and…AI5 min readAI5 min read
Jul 14Member-onlyNew Product No. 1 — Home AI Based Hairstyling ApplianceNo. It has not been built yet. Shouldn’t it be though? No? Time with your hair stylist too precious? Don’t want a quick custom do every time? Got a weirdly shaped head or just scared of letting AI so close to it? You don’t think this will be the next…Hair6 min readHair6 min read
Jun 13Member-onlyFour Museums For The Price Of OneHave you ever heard of the National Museum of Korea or the Walker Art Center or the WWII National Museum or the Tring Museum? NLCultural takes you to these fantastic, important but lesser known museums via video explanations, clickable maps and much more interesting and fun visual experiences of pop…Culture5 min readCulture5 min read