Category Archives: engaged

The Look & Feel of Conscious Computing

With a musical instrument, it’s awkward at first. All thumbs. Uncomfortable. Noise. With practice, musician becomes self-contained vs. consumed by the instrument; co-creating music. So it will be with personal technology. Now, a prosthetic of mind, it will become a prosthetic of being. A violinist with a violin. Us with our gadgets, embodied, attending as we choose. Continue reading

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Dee Hock’s 1996 Quote…

Today, we are Knowledge Workers evolving into Understanding Workers. Understanding Workers use technology to anticipate, judge and act. Think about it. This is what we’re doing with FitBit, Quantified Self, 23andMe.com, Facebook, and so many other technologies of this era. Continue reading

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iPads Everywhere!

The iPad is the iPod of reading. The world around you disappears when you engage with it. Continue reading

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More on Intentions and Goals

Intention happens in the present. Goals are about the future. Where does behavior change? In the present. Continue reading

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What is Dying to be Born?

A few weeks ago, when I checked my inbox, there was an email from Lianne Raymond.   Her request: I am asking you, as one of the women I look to for thought leadership, to contribute your idea of “what … Continue reading

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How has the Internet Changed the Way You Think?

The Internet stole my body, now a lifeless form hunched in front of a glowing screen. My senses dulled as my greedy mind became one with the global brain we call the Internet. Continue reading

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