THINKING ABOUT THINKING Is thinking inherently a distributed phenomenon? We want, these days, to encourage open-mindedness, inclusion, collaboration, and other potential interactivity as tactics, if not strategies, for achieving outcomes that are better and sooner than without these approaches. But that doesn’t equate to unilateral effort suddenly being a myth, illusion, oversight or error. As we…

This study surveys the often chaotic language of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in a way that disambiguates the uses and references in circulation. …

The “future of work” is already a mini-industry in content publishing, but that content is far more often than not actually describing the future of “working”, which is not the same thing. From a value perspective, working is about how you get to do work when you have it. Spending…

So much of what is written about dealing with complexity tends to fall towards the “entertaining mystery” (scientific awe) end of a spectrum or towards the opposite direction, the psychotherapy (mental health) end. Awe lets us off the hook; and mental health helps us be productive. Both are interesting and…

Because you’re reading this, I’m going to give myself the liberty of presuming that you have seen AND read the Forbes article, “AI-Created Images Aren’t Protected By Copyright Law According To U.S. Copyright Office” and perhaps noticed the following. “But the drawings, which were all created by Midjourney…” “the images…

It’s 2023 and the mini-industry of Design Thinking detractors is still getting bigger. It’s partly an effect of the limitless supply of employed-by-business people having free access to so many social media channels (i.e., so much attention) in the “psychological safety space” of competitive branded thought marketing. …

Artificial Intelligence, or A.I., rages on in the world of visual art, it’s current ability to automatically compose being the new apex of its functionality. While A.I. continues to make progress at cognition, its most exciting influence on image making has now moved to showing what it “knows” about methods…

Results, Automagically We can be surprised only so much to find out that encyclopedias of everything seem now to be available. Our common experience of using web search engines easily lands us on subjects and facts that we neither already knew about ourselves nor were going to create. Even further, discovering the…

How a venerable arts organization self-destructed under the misguidance of ambition, faux leadership, and social media’s culture. — Introduction Organizations are needed solely for one reason: to accomplish something that cannot be reliably accomplished without being an organization. Community, culture and leadership cannot survive independently in a functional and coherent business architecture of a non-profit organization.