Creativity
self-censorship, free speech, and the powers of The People
What happens when the recently de-privileged1 try to recoup social power by authoritarianism, and what to do about it. No law can save you, if you don’t make…
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Tag: truthiness
Mommess
Lies the AI tells me
Interacting with AI feels disturbing to me. Oddly slick and beautiful fake humans with 7 fingers aside, I think it’s because there’s no way to prioritize truth-telling in…
Coaching
Helping the Helpers: methodology and pitfalls
Like many people, I’ve wanted to make a huge positive impact, but unlike others, I haven’t wanted to be directly acknowledged for doing it, because I’m uncomfortable with…
Culture
Efficiency: a dangerous game
By design it benefits only a few. Oh my goodness have I loved efficiency. I drank the Koolaid early, and developed my own flavors of fast-to-faster to boot.…
Culture
Damn, I’m sorry
… for my part in the debacle that is the Internet, so I’m writing long form as penance. Below is this maker’s overview of the web’s history and…
Coaching
Take back the alphabet & re-write your life
How work with the most basic building blocks in order to elevate your communication. I’ve always seen the alphabet as a beautiful grouping of shapes and fascinating set…
Coaching
Artful Advertising
If you lay down your META or Google targeted ad sets like blankets of loveliness across the web– regardless of your product, service or event – your content…
Best of Mommess
Surveillance is a feeling
And since it has no love in it, it doesn’t feel good: a note to employers (and data brokers) in a digital age. “Peering In” photo of Artist…
Coaching
Mission: Good Will Ambassador
Writing a mission statement, and how waiting tables is as fine an ambassadorship as any outside post. Demystifying entity-speak: Mission & Vision Statements In corporate America, mission and…
Family
Naming, Angels, and Missing Sisters
Can anyone truly see what’s missing? It’s a paradoxical view. What’s in a name? One of my teachers told me folks with the last name DeAngelis or DiPrete…
Coaching
project project & on demand on you
This is about putting the marketing cart before the horse with Human Design, and it apparently working.1 Oh yes, and moonlighting…And examining why anyone would put pressure on…
Creativity
Titles First (and foremost?)
I saw a delightful and giddily relaxed David Bowie1 in an old video clip saying something so true: artists are more comfortable describing their process than what things…