I could care less about the metaverse. Tell Zuck to stick it. Are you looking forward to living your life in a low rez simulation? I’m not. In case you haven’t noticed, reality is pretty amazing. And it’s free.
I still exist on Facebook, but rarely check in. About the…
This week I made the difficult decision to publish some things about my relationship with alcohol. These are not calls for help; I have help and it’s a work in progress. The reason I’m publishing these very personal, to me, pieces about this topic, is that I know I’m not…
This morning I read a piece by a very popular writer here, and it was filled with doom and gloom, end of the world stuff. Really over the top. I hope the readers understand that this is designed to get reads. It is not reality, it is fiction.
I get…
“A stable, solid body is a mental image superimposed onto a stream of events in the same way that a spinning propeller is seen as a circle. The constant succession of discrete acts of cognition or feeling appears as a monolithic event, just as the rapid change of frames in…
“What are they for? Can you tell me what they are for?- President Joe Biden when asked about Republican obstruction. I’ve been asking myself this question for twelve years. As far as I can see the only major accomplishment they can tout is a tax break for billionaires and huge…
If you are a marketing major, I have a strong suggestion. Stop. This is not how you learn marketing and this is why.
To put it simply, academic marketing is years behind the ever-changing reality of selling products and services. By the time current practices have worked their way into…
According to the Washington Post, 75.1% of Americans have had at least one dose of vaccine. I have watched this number very slowly creep up, very slowly, and it has me wondering about a number of things. I’m 67 and in my group, 65+, over 95% are fully (two shots)…
It’s really too bad the surrealist movement ended 80 or 90 years ago, because those guys would have felt right at home in 2022. Everything seems to fall into ‘you can’t make this up’ territory and I suspect we are just getting started.
In case you haven’t followed this thing…
“Why do you write on Medium?” This question appeared in a comment this morning and I realized the answer was a little complex. It’s certainly not for the money, which fluctuates wildly and unpredictably. I view it as a bonus, not a part of my income.
I have written professionally…
