Corporate Jargon - Lying By Obscurity (Coffee Break on YT)
Happy Halloween, y’all. You know what’s really scary? Corporate jargon.
What’s the “Ideal Game”?
When games are created or participated in, especially if children are involved, we often launch criticisms at the designs of these so-called “games”. Children in particular may change the rules but when they do we don’t say they’re cheating (unless they’re obviously changing the rules to their benefit) and they may do so at the…
Jobs and Hopelessness
Whether it’s just a contributing factor or the main reason, much of the time our jobs can convince us that life is meaningless or that we don’t contribute much. I had a co-worker yesterday who told me that they felt useless even though they hate the job. Our jobs can convince us that we’re useless…
Anti-Work isn’t for Closers (Glengarry Glen Ross Film Review)
The recent movie Boss Baby (starring Alec Baldwin) has on its cover (for the DVD), “Cookies are for closers.” This was a line I knew I had heard somewhere else, but I couldn’t remember where. I had never really heard of Glengarry Glen Ross (henceforth GGR for sake of ease) as a play, let alone…
Boring Yourself Into Creativity
I’ve talked more than a few times about creativity and its relation to boredom as well as technology. Heck, I’ve even read and reviewed a whole book about that called Autopilot. There’s a lot to this newer notion about boredom that it’s helpful, necessary and gets the creative juices (via your default mode in your…
AI and Sociality
One thing naysayers of AI often repeat is that there is no way that machines could never replace humans in a care role or in some sort of role that is highly involving emotions. There’s a few ways to handle this kind of claim: Undermine the actual merit of humans doing these role currently, e.g.…
Tales of Achieving Success Through Laziness
Recently I had my yearly review at my job. I had never had one of those before…mostly because I never stuck around long enough at a given job to get one. But in any case, I had finally gotten one and I cannot tell you how unexcited I was about this new development. I made…
Regarding my Absence
As you may have noticed, I took off without saying much and in a fairly abrupt way. As it turns out, a friend I had gone to visit had changed their mind on the nature of a situation that happened between us. They decided to make fairly public accusations against me and I was caught…