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Making NonSense of itDamn, looking at the Emmys, I just realised I watched the wrong programmes again,As the title says, one 2024 Emmy awards ceremony, 2 shows I watched, one drama series winning the Comedy award to avoid clashing with the pre-ordained winner of the drama category.
And no, it was not the Simpsons'
2024-01-1710 min
Making NonSense of it2023 Redux - what the year taught me (and is not in my blog)Inaugurating 2024 series with an additional range of running commentaries, starting with a look back at 2023 take-aways on climate change, media, AI and content creation.
2023-12-2638 min
Making NonSense of itLiving in the Best World PossibleWe seem to be living the "Apocalypse, S1Ep5, the End is nigh-er", the 5th seal opening, a time of despondency. We should not accept it.
2023-12-0409 min
Making NonSense of itNot the Last Straw after allBanning plastic straws turned out to be at best a short-sighted solution. We replaced plastics with "forever chemicals". PR plans yet again hijacked solutions. To both retain normal human activity as a base and the long view as a solution, we need transparent global political processes. Not apparatchiks, vested interests, posers and zealots surfing viral memes.
2023-08-3007 min
Making NonSense of itBarbie, the movie, or How to properly KenThe movie Barbie shows to all the IPs out there how it is done: respect for the material and the fans, a story and a message tightly woven, and a healthy dose of self-awareness. All in service of entertainment, not self-delusion.
2023-08-0843 minMaking NonSense of itLet's defend realityShivering and drenched, we valiantly endure the "warmest summer on record". Whenever we read about this, history, movies or politics, our experience feels more and more like cognitive dissonance.
2023-08-0308 minMaking NonSense of itArchimedes, Automata, Alexa, AI and the end of mankindDisclaimer: this podcast was neither suggested, recorded, edited nor voiced by any AI. Actually it desperately tried to prevent me from recording it, either because it is that uninteresting, or because it is disturbing its world domination masterplan (/cue evil cackle). Freewill in action.
2023-07-211h 01Making NonSense of itIndiana Jones and the Algorithm of SuccessThe latest Big Franchise releases are not creating new memories, or even refreshing old ones, they are just wrecking cherished ones. Reading through the professional analysts, it could have to do with an obsession with big data demographic profiles instead of audience entertainment.
2023-07-0618 minMaking NonSense of itA Snail slithering on a razor blade; Apocalypse Now on life and leadershipColonel Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now, is introduced, shown and depicted, even by the authors, as a man driven to madness by his experiences. He is probably the most rational character in the movie, a compelling case for the impact of logical choices, not crazy ones.
Like a snail sliding and surviving sliding the razor blade of life.
2023-06-0819 minMaking NonSense of itIs this the story of my life?As for Harry Windsor, we sometimes rue, regret or try to fight back against the lack of control we have over our own life's narrative. However counter-intuitive this may be, we have to accept it.
2023-06-0711 minMaking NonSense of itFeeling the VoidWe build our life up into something. Until we reach a point where it seems either meaningless, or overflows with needs. Life always seems to clank one way then the other, until the only way-out seems to withdraw. Too much and not enough.
2023-05-311h 53Making NonSense of itTik Tok TechThe Tech industry today needs bold roadmaps, not flash in the pan self-serving hypes. Not just incremental improvements and caretaker visions. Some solutions pitched will be illusionary, wrong, fail. But some will succeed. How to recapture the momentum?
2023-03-1752 minMaking NonSense of itMenhirs, silent witnesses of our human historyStanding stones, menhirs, universally signal living human history, their timelessness their biggest significance beyond actual origin or function.
2023-01-2119 minMaking NonSense of itWhen the Past becomes the FutureThe Past used to be carefully curated, enshrined, slightly dusty gallery of exhibits. While we tend to mesh timelines, it is more and more an open-air mine of ideas, choices, opportunities. Wrongly done, it could become a sterile endless loop of recycled ideas, done right, we can create new elements by recombining the essence of the best of it. The Past could be the new future.
2022-12-1656 minMaking NonSense of itI Am IrrelevantWhat will the people think? What will they remember of me? I am irrelevant, yet what I am to others is relevant.
2022-08-3131 min2022-08-0314 min
Making NonSense of itI Have ... No DreamThere are many universal threats out there, but where is the universal vision? No wonder the facts and statistics show we stop voting and actively avoid the news.
2022-07-1950 min
Making NonSense of itWho? Me?Responsibility should come with a deep-seated sense of personal accountability
2022-07-1718 min
2022-07-1503 min
Making NonSense of itThe World before the World BeforeAre we living in a modern version of the early 1900s?
2022-05-3034 minMaking NonSense of itThe Theory behind "The Price We Pay"The theoretical approach behind my previous podcast “The Price We Pay”.
2022-05-171h 06Making NonSense of itThe Price We Pay“You will pay for your choices!” We tend to look at our decisions and the price we pay for it in the rear-view mirror. What-ifs and regrets so often become part of our lives. What is the alternative?
2022-05-0445 minMaking NonSense of itThis is not a catI never really got Magritte’s most famous painting. Then, a picture of my cat went stratospheric on Reddit. It brought to me a realisation: I have been blind all along to the significance of Magritte’s work for today’s world. The cat is today's pipe!
2022-03-2814 minMaking NonSense of itRunning after the factsLive streaming from Kiev and frontline combat videos uploaded in real time. It is not mainstream media delivering our information today
2022-03-2112 minMaking NonSense of itFight or Flight? Are we still willing to die for Danzig?War brings out the most basic of human reflexes. Ever wondered whether you would fight, or flee to a safer place? In this podcast, I explore if and how our moral compass has changed over time, and hence, are we still willing to “Die for Danzig”?
2022-03-1129 minMaking NonSense of itIs this Child Labor?We are outraged at 12-year-olds in mines. We cheer at a 12-year-old in a national competitive ice rink.
What price are we ready to accept for entertainment?
2022-03-1029 minMaking NonSense of itGamification, it's Fun... Not GamesGamification is often confused with being just a game. It is actually being a host to your guests, and create memorable moments that will trigger a voluntary interaction.
2022-02-1138 minMaking NonSense of itLife, a Time paradox or we live simultaneously in linear, cyclical and circular timelinesLogics tells us that time should be either linear, cyclical or circular. Either it begins and ends. Or it repeats itself endlessly. Or it does not begin nor end but is a loop. These 3 states are mutually exclusive. However, our individual experience tells us something different.
Our experience tells us that time can be linear and cyclical and circular. Time does begin and end every year, from the first of January to the 31st of December. A measurable unique timeline, i.e., time is linear. Simultaneously, time moves from winter to spring, summer, then fall, and then b...
2022-02-0524 minMaking NonSense of itOverlapping orbits - or how to keep it together in a groupHow to keep our personal dynamics going while interacting with groups? By becoming parts of overlapping orbits.
After 2 years of social distanciation, we re-engage with family, friends or colleagues. Lets have a look at the different gravitational systems in groups, and how they compare to our own.
2022-01-3139 minMaking NonSense of itBalancing the ChaosHow to deal with imbalance? Whether in work or in personal life, it is a daily experience. Simply denying it or “correcting” never seems to make it disappear. It seems either futile or even counter-productive.
Imbalance is actually a very powerful motion vector. With only balance, there would be no tension, no passion, no needs, no aspiration. All these are movements too. One can re-start another.
It is the combination of balance and imbalance that takes us forward.
Seeking balance as a goal in itself seems quite unnatural, if achievable at all. Balance and imbalance co-exist. Acce...
2022-01-0748 minMaking NonSense of itThe Metaverse and ValueWe saw that the Metaverse redefines Identity and Access. It also redefines value.
The core promise of the Metaverse is a seamless transfer of items, services across multiple realities. To do that, we need an exchange system, exchange units with a series of fundamental qualities. There is no universal solution as yet. Blockchain technology is a strong basis to build on, the core transferable units will probably be time in some form, but we will still need a real global exchange system.
2021-12-171h 06Making NonSense of itThe Metaverse and my AccessThe metaverse will ultimately referee where you can go, what you can see, what you actually see. This means defining our multiple individual layers of reality, physical as much as digital. This means our individual reality, as well as how much this will be a collective reality.
2021-12-1043 minMaking NonSense of itThe Metaverse and my IdentityThe metaverse is not virtual meetings between avatars. It is the technological, financial backbone that underpins the merged reality today. For it to exist, it will define your identity tomorrow, that is for yourself and for others.
2021-12-0640 minMaking NonSense of itZooming in on TomorrowGeneration Z in China. 254 million strong, disposable income, technology, infrastructure. They have the potential to create a new global youth culture (cf. my previous article). A live observatory of Gen Z, at scale. The 3 underlying core trends.
2021-11-2539 minMaking NonSense of itChina Gen Z - Tomorrow todayCultural shifts used to happen in London, New York or San Francisco. It has moved East, to be led by the youth of Shanghai and Beijing, after Seoul. 254 million Gen Z in China with a high individual disposable income. A preview of the future?
2021-11-2229 minMaking NonSense of itAn endless loop of endless choices of endless contentWe can access an unprecedented amount of information, freely and openly. The catch? Given the amount to dig, we need help to free-dive this ocean, hence the search and selection algorithms. This means that the help comes at a price, and the risk is to be caught in a digital loop endlessly refracting our own choices back to us, trapping us in a sterile self-serving vortex. The only viable solution I found is to create our own clear personal analytical protocols based on what is underlying the choices of information presented to us; no-one else will have any vested...
2021-11-0916 minMaking NonSense of itYou, me and the metaverse part 2So, the metaverse a meme, a tech hype, a viral buzzword? Or is it the very fabric of our world? The choice is yours, but this is too big a topic to pass on. Weary of yet another one of these cyclical Next Big Thing? Then lets define what it is not.
Picking up from where we left in [part 1] …
2021-11-0544 minMaking NonSense of itYou, me and the Metaverse part 1Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook to Meta, as in metaverse. For his new stock filing, he claims the name metaverse (MVRS) itself. For such a novel concept, Wii-like avatars and VR goggles meetings is rather underwhelming? What is actually the metaverse? What is at stake?
2021-11-0239 min
Making NonSense of itThe loss of implicit trustOver the years, we have lost the implicit trust in intellectual authorities. This erosion is not primarily due to social media, internet, conspiracies or fake news, but to the failure of the reference authorities themselves to live-up to and live-by the expectations they created.
2021-10-1644 minMaking NonSense of itCalling time on TimeOur perception of time has changed over the past years, partly because the disappearance of the cultural and political narratives of the 50s (cf Fukuyama) but as well because technology enables us to recreate and seemingly improve on past created contents: how many more remakes, retakes, prequels, documentaries and author recycling of the 19th and 20th century do we need to try and get on top of this time loop we have entered?
2021-07-0819 minMaking NonSense of itTalking about "Meh" generationGeneration Z, depressed and depressing, unmotivated and nihilistic? Maybe, but, after all, what examples have they been shown so far which woudl not make this their logical behavior? No Future, No Problem!
2021-05-1930 minMaking NonSense of itTop 5 consumer mutations: the quarterly reviewAny changes in our January 2021 top 5 trends? No, apart from some becoming even more prominent and urgent!
2021-04-2104 minMaking NonSense of itUNI - The Army way - Gearing up for today's marketsIn this first episode of Unboxing New Ideas,let dive into the contemporary Army doctrine as outlined by Gal Guy Hubin, proposed and summarised by Martin Shurkin for the Texas national Security Review on their website WarontheRocks.
2021-04-0554 minMaking NonSense of itUna-reality / Monophysit marketsAnyone else having an eerie feeling so far in 2021? Just me or did conf-calls, emails, posts, memes and tweets just walked straight out of our screens, into our living rooms, our streets, our markets?
Regardless of your date of birth, time-zone or position, the digital space has been the one consistent reality.
What does it mean? Digital and physical realities melted into an integral, organic spatial continuum, beyond their individual components and eco-systems.
2021-02-2651 minMaking NonSense of itMarkets 2021: once the dust settles, what will have really changed?On the surface of it, everything was upended. But how much of it will still be relevant once the emergency fades away? How much of it is the new normal and how much of it is just circumstantial?
How much to build on this, how much to invest in this, what do we need to adapt?
2021-02-1002 minMaking NonSense of itTop 5 market DNA mutations for the 2020'sa new Trust, Reality, Future, Time, Space for the markets, the consumers
2021-01-1923 minMaking NonSense of itWelcome to Making Non-Sense of It, the podcast s2Introducing the podcast version of the blog "Making Non-Sense of It"
2021-01-1801 min