October 2015
Reading: This bio-tattoo tech will improve health tracking & make smart watches obsolete (they all suck anyway) http://www.futurity.org/wearable-health-tattoo-1015182/
Archived blogging, circa 2004 entitled, I drove off the Canyon road. One of my favorites: http://www.heathervescent.com/heathervescent/2004/10/i_drove_off_the.html
Reading: There is much we have to learn about the human brain. Demetri's story is a living example. Recommended. https://twitter.com/CoveringDelta/status/649188988620808192
Reading: Most people don't have the emotional capacity to do this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/09/30/everyone-you-know-will-be-able-to-rate-you-on-the-terrifying-yelp-for-people-whether-you-want-them-to-or-not/
Want false predictions to make you feel better about the future? Talk to a pop-futurist.
Want to know what the future could really be like? Talk to a professionally trained futurist - aka moi.
Reading: Wikipedia page on Stalker. I love films with long takes and minimal dialog. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)
Didn't read yet: WTF long term scenario is 1-10 years. Fuck you MBA consultants: http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/strategy/shifting_tides_global_economic_scenarios_for_2015_25?cid=other-eml-ttn-mip-mck-oth-1509
Black dogs come with their own formal wear. Mine wears a casual tux every day. https://twitter.com/berkun/status/649669756237164544
Makes perfect sense to me. But most people are not formally trained to think about the scale of uncertainty. https://twitter.com/maureenflaherty/status/649545014448640000
Beautiful https://twitter.com/anildash/status/649413018980237312
Great. Buy the adblock company, change configuration to make adblock worthless.
RT @t3dy: Kundalini for reproductive rights
imageTIL: Kali, the Hindu goddess, is a futurist.
LOLs https://twitter.com/Rvervuurt/status/649587777638670336
Fuck yeah @chrismessina Writing like is 2005! Loved it!
Reading: A rant on corporate douchebaggery by @chrismessina . I miss these honest expressions of emotion: https://medium.com/@chrismessina/against-my-better-judgment-fuck-luxor-2df4d4178183
I barely did 1 thing on my todo this week because, crushing depression, anger, and rage. People of Earth, you disappoint me.
Beautiful https://twitter.com/Viss/status/650047392788541440
Reading: [M]aybe we should give more authority to our women... the person behind the gun is almost never a female: http://www.jackmcdevitt.com/journal-194
Reading: @AmerBanker profiles power women in banking. More please! http://www.americanbanker.com/women-in-banking/
Reading: 3 articles on Basic Income. 1/ Basic Income can be a better solution than welfare: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2015/09/28/our-welfare-system-insults-the-poor-basic-income-could-do-better/
Reading: Slightly sensational piece about Basic Income. Curious if it will be a political conversation: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-campaign-to-give-every-american-free-money-091515
Reading: I think the future includes a minimum basic income for all. Time to bite the bullet for funding it. http://www.fastcoexist.com/3040832/world-changing-ideas/a-universal-basic-income-is-the-bipartisan-solution-to-poverty-weve-bee
BTW, I'm withholding some of my reading posts, since they might be material for this other thing I get paid to do.
Los Angeles' survey on Short term vacation rentals: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Sx8GveWHCAa4LjF6tCfSU6290D22gtDE25AESPvOSKs/viewform?c=0&w=1 #sharingeconomy
Reading: Critical reviews of a "popular" crypto-currency book that I was not impressed with. Kool-Aid indeed.
If someone were going to write a book about the future of money/bitcoin/blockchain, what are your meaty questions?
I'm sick of the fluff, news covered bs media icing. I never read anything I didn't already know about bitcoin or blockchain.
Is there anyone writing anything remotely new about bitcoin/blockchain? Or are they keeping their insights quiet? (as I have mostly done)
How do these clowns even get to write books about bitcoin/crypto in the first place? They aren't even "experts."
I swear, if a man submitted the book proposal I did a few years ago, it would be published already. #fuckyourgenderstereotypes
@nelz9999 fantastic question!
Or rather, the last thing that excited me about blockchain was talking with Primavera di Filippi last spring.
Completely unusable example. But a concept I've discussed for some time. #futureofwearables https://twitter.com/WearableStyle/status/650385350737571841
Reading: San Bernardino current and propose VHR regulation ordinance. More regulation for AirBnB styled rentals. #sharingeconomy
And LA Country held it's 3rd community listening session on it's in development VHR regulations. #sharingeconomy
@dgwbirch I'd love to!
Reading: "Human error often emerges from deeper systemic factors" http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/02/blame-learn-mistakes #systems
One of my issues w Bitcoin/Blockchain coverage is it's vacuum. Hubris thinks it's the solution to all, when it is merely one puzzle piece.
Reading: "all money is created from nowhere" Fuck quantitative easing, introduce socially responsible money http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/04/printing-money-jeremy-corbyn-quantitative-easing-peoples-qe
Fantastic read by @zoesqwilliams https://twitter.com/PositiveMoneyUK/status/649311096717881344
@SMByersOlympia I'm skeptical we will ever learn it. We like to play the black/white blame game. At least a few more realize today...
@amoration Agree. IMHO it misses a major chunk of the reality of transactional experience - a human experience.
Technical proof of work is limiting for my visions of the future. Bridge the technical ledger to human transactions @amoration
RT @zoesqwilliams: 'You don't have to take what you're given. You don't have to live without power or without hope. You don't have to be gr…
So I should be writing this piece, but instead maybe I'll just read some articles... #writersprocrastination never enough research, right?
Publishers should figure out a new business model. Advertising is mind-control manipulation. https://twitter.com/BlairReeves/status/650714701064761344
@BlairReeves @fatemehx2 micropayments don't scale b/c of business model of banking transfer fees. Systemic change is required.
@BlairReeves @fatemehx2 Absolutely disagree with you. A lot of content is shit - the McDonalds/Walmart of click bait. No way to penalize.
@BlairReeves @fatemehx2 And that click bait steals content from content producers, aggregates under a brand.
@BlairReeves @fatemehx2 few of those content creators are making a living wage.
@BlairReeves @fatemehx2 Advertising is an absolutely broken model and will change from the way we know it today. It has to or it will die.
@fatemehx2 @BlairReeves or watch my film about the future of shopping: https://youtu.be/rOJOpSWsm4w
@fatemehx2 @BlairReeves go for it. Your opinion puts humanity into slavery at corporations expense. I will fight that forever.
Because people are lazy and hate to really change/innovate. And it's haaarrrdddd! (wah!) https://twitter.com/fatemehx2/status/650718910350651392
come on @Jason. you know better. it's a matter of excessive transaction fees & transaction system owned by banks. @fatemehx2
@BlairReeves the unintended consequences of 10+ years of freemium model to convert users to the internet. @fatemehx2
@BlairReeves close, but flip the view. allow users to give you the data they want to share - and pay them for it. @fatemehx2
@BlairReeves check @dsearls 's work on VRM. @fatemehx2
JFC - I wish people were taught systems perspectives in school.
I am anti-advertising @fatemehx2 "Die Gedanken sind frei"
Be the ghost in your machine. Re-Humanize yourself: https://youtu.be/C2vroR-4GjE
. @amoration how would you transfer the emotional aspects of a hug through the blockchain?
Another reason I want to kill myself so much these days. All these faux-futurists & their poseur techniques. https://twitter.com/wendyinfutures/status/650733167037542404
@dgwbirch have you seen "The Emperor has no Clothes"? It might amuse you. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gamesalute/emperors-new-clothes
Fantastic! This is how I think (& a good intro to complexity/systems thinking) http://www.slideshare.net/jurgenappelo/complexity-thinking via @antlerboy
@wendyinfutures I'd like to think so, but the market says otherwise.
Reading: The coming age of the Cockroach. Goodbye sparkle ponies of Silicon Valley: https://medium.com/@caterina/the-age-of-the-cockroach-5a720d917416
You call them Unicorns, I call them the Sparkle Pony of Silicon Valley. I will be glad when they dehydrate into playa dust. #mixingmetaphors
Absolutely disgusting. So lame. https://twitter.com/briansolis/status/649988065260277760
The USA has a bully (gun) problem. I wonder why?! Like fatherland, like unfortunate son? ht @Silona
@t3dy wait, huh? all my favorite cards @VRSin
Hey, I forgot I wrote a piece about the *last* bitcoin hype. Dec 2013. Not horrible. https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/behind-the-bitcoin-surge-54c0070a03c2
Beautiful! https://twitter.com/DJPaulV/status/650795065611194368
Reading: Excellent material. Have you seen this @fatemehx2 ? https://twitter.com/dsearls/status/648671659625455616
@slackmistress and the things that less qualified people than you get (that you think you should have)
It's the first rainy night in Los Angeles in months. I made lasagna & gonna drink this bottle of wine while it bakes.
Returning to omnivore status, after a few years pescetarian, I think of "meat as a garnish" & keep my mostly vegetarian ways.
My new favorite western: Wild Bunch by Sam Peckinpah https://youtu.be/_w9HwC7C8nM
Reading: News on the TPP signing: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34444799
Reading: Mish-mash about demographics & robot job taking. Needs more real analysis - all conjecture. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34283764
As [Morgan Stanley] note[s], [technological innovation] is hard to predict & sometimes even harder to measure. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34283764
Reading: A bunch of articles about the Chinese Credit Score
Skimmed: Big data in fintech for a more comprehensive credit score/increase lending. A company profile: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/26/zestfinance-takes-its-big-data-credit-scoring-to-china/?_r=0
My take on big data in fintech? We've completed first wave fintech data. We're entering "second wave" fintech data. You can quote me on it.
Want to know what I mean by "second wave big data" in fintech? Ask me to write an article on it.
Skimmed: this dutch article conjecturing (scary & negative) implication of complex surveilled data http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/china-rates-its-own-citizens-including-online-behaviour~a3979668/
Complex credit scored based on your friends & their behavior is not new. @brettking 's been talking about it for years.
Reading: Non-US perspective overview about china credit score. Try parsing from a collective society perspective https://kit.se/2015/09/25/11823/sa-blir-du-en-kinesisk-monstermedborgare/
Maybe friends w bad score need help - you help! West individualistic perspective so tiring. Learn to have collective human view.
That was a delightful read. Creative marketing. https://twitter.com/AlishaBhagat/status/651067245645402112
In trust we trust: Why reputation is the currency of the future (my piece on reputation & the sharing economy) http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/23/opinion/in-trust-reputation-currency
Reading: a paper says 2/3 of econ papers are biased. Interesting. I'd say 100% of papers are biased to some extent. http://econ.au.dk/fileadmin/site_files/filer_oekonomi/Working_Papers/Economics/2015/wp15_16.pdf
@chloregy so you have no interest in helping your friends improve their lives or encouraging them when they are in difficulty?
@kittenhotep that was a fantastic read. Thanks!
Typical challenge that makes me want to kill myself (I am not kidding) https://twitter.com/MeetingBoy/status/649353151577989121
Reading: Fascinating research "credit scores reveal an individual's relationship skill and level of commitment"http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2015/10/02-credit-scores-committed-relationships-dokko
Appears to be credit score news day.
Fascinating! https://twitter.com/citizenrobot/status/651103639595974656
Reading between the lines of the Brookings paper. The definitions of relationships/cohabitation/marriage are fascinating!
And they probably won't really build one now either. https://twitter.com/prestonjbyrne/status/650900140811776000
Glad you understood what was unsaid. :) https://twitter.com/prestonjbyrne/status/651167932643315712
RT @VillageLabNet: No #financialsystem exists today that provides resources for sustainable,shared & social justice systems . @mbauwens: #…
I know it's crazy, but I'm starting to think Bitcoin & parts of Blockchare are not that disruptive after all. Merely incremental innovation.
Reading: California passes assisted suicide law. http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/10/05/54832/california-governor-signs-hard-won-assisted-suicid/
Reading: "the non-affair shows us that the rights of women always come last." http://new.spectator.co.uk/2015/03/swedens-feminist-foreign-minister-has-dared-to-tell-the-truth-about-saudi-arabia-what-happens-now-concerns-us-all/
RT @NickSzabo4: Economic models didn't predict Wikipedia editors or suicide bombers. There is far more to human motivations than economic i…
RT @TheOnion: Federal Government Adds 600,000 Acres To National Forbidden Zone http://onion.com/1Lu7RjU
imageIndeed. https://twitter.com/mpesce/status/651236204990611456
Listening: Beethoven's Symphony #9.
The Asian collective perspective is totally lost on all western writers. I can barely grasp it. https://twitter.com/sblackmoore/status/651375074877014018
The U.S. was founded on a culture/perspective of the individual (yang). Asia has an opposite (yin) view of human society. #westernbias
It's ok if a corporation does this, but if a government does - outrage. Same shit, different actor. https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/chinas-nightmarish-citizen-scores-are-warning-americans
"United States is a much different place than China," except it's not really. Replace Chinese government with US corporations.
@sblackmoore in some ways, it's absolutely genius. socialism applied via capitalistic means.
@sblackmoore it's a concept that's been talked about in the U.S. by @brettking for years.
@sblackmoore I guess I see the outrage hypocritical and not culturally sensitive.
And now the Ode to Joy section begins. #symphony#9
Every creature drinks in joy at nature's breast; Good and Bad alike follow her trail of roses.
She gives us kisses and wine, a true friend, even in death; Even the worm was given desire, and the cherub stands before God.
@AlexRoy144 what is going on Alex? Did you change your mind?
Vroom Vroom! https://twitter.com/AlexRoy144/status/651232229759287297
Autechre follows Beethoven quite nicely.
Comments: Ingress age demographics are not what you expect: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ingress/comments/3npd3r/expectations_of_other_players_vs_reality/
NASA releases Project Apollo - over 12k space race photos in this Flickr album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/albums
@kevinmarks @swarmapp @withknown Here's y chicken flow https://www.flickr.com/photos/heathervescent/21810922488/ & the chicken ppt: ftp://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/chicken/chicken.ppt
Beautiful. https://twitter.com/pmichaeldesign/status/651456961251287040
LOL Economics translated: https://youtu.be/VVp8UGjECt4
@swarmapp glad you enjoyed.
Bitcoin & Blockchain can improve your sex life!!! <--- Article I'm not writing, but could....
@AlexRoy144 yay! I feel I may have won a little with that slight shift in your thinking! Human Driving _is_ worth fighting for! :-)
@AlexRoy144 we need to catch up again. SxSW announces on the 19th.
LOL, sad but true. But wait innovation = marketing?! Certainly not R&D budget. https://twitter.com/cmogle/status/651009841184514048
These communities are well known in LA & the OC. cc @pinkyracr & @watercanary @dearsarah follow these stories. https://twitter.com/rightfuture/status/651492798575677440
California joins creating legislation. https://twitter.com/dearsarah/status/651494091574763520
"Will you accept BitCoins, CyberBeans, or JuggaloCoin? Definitely not." - @CAH
There are going to be unintended consequences from this legislation. And new (bs) reasons to reduce wages. http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-gov-brown-equal-pay-bill-20151006-story.html
Reading Boris' Roadside Picnic afterword, I learn the name of a Noon Universe main character: Kondratiev. I think of supercycles & waves.
I am wearing suspenders. And a white button up shirt. And Doc Martins. Why you ask? I'm going to the symphony to hear Ludwig Van.
@sblackmoore you know it.
I saw 99 musicians but Beethoven ain't 1. #waltdisneyhall #odetojoy #horrorshow #symphonynumber9
Interesting https://twitter.com/ingenesist/status/651608468927852547
An evening with Ludwig Van. Our favorite symphony #9. #horrorshow #clockworkorange #beethoven… https://instagram.com/p/8jJwMqJvTJ/
Droog at Disney Hall. #mydayinla #cacophonysociety #cacophonists #symohonynumber9 #beethoven https://instagram.com/p/8jKahipvUq/
Real Horrorshow. #clockworkorange #beethoven #waltdisneyhall #symohonynumber9 https://instagram.com/p/8jKjfFpvU_/
@t3dy you were obviously already a member.
I saw 99 musicians but Ludwig Van wasn't one. #symohonynumber9 #cacophonysociety #waltdisneyhall… https://instagram.com/p/8jUy5xJvWi/
Cacophonists at the symphony. #cacophonysociety https://instagram.com/p/8jVOiFpvXV/
Reading: Ethereum discussion boards. A rabbit hole.
Oh good morning @Chris_Skinner. Don't mind my twitter stalking. Your stuff is so tasty. Provocative! Oh yeah!
Or why certain experts are not really experts. (bias blinders) https://twitter.com/Chris_Skinner/status/651424631828652032
Tagged for digestion, because these guys are BIG names in #futureofmoney outside the banking/fintech space. https://twitter.com/mbauwens/status/652095902467932160
@chrismessina @Mc_Huge @jstrauss API = DNA? The human product release lifecycle is a long one.
Wildcard observation. Kind of blowing my mind. https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/652160053399556097
Take predictions from journalist who "knew nothing about financial services until relatively recently" at your peril https://twitter.com/JimMarous/status/652163891040923648
Hey @philipgryan you should be ashamed of yourself. What makes you think you can predict the future of banking? WTH.
@Mc_Huge @chrismessina @jstrauss Human evolution can't happen fast enough for my tastes. Yes, sign me up!
Jesus fuck, another journalist writes "predictions" about an industry they barely know about. Fuck my M.S. in foresight.
Make shit up. Slap a sensational and false headline. Share through networks. --> this is how you make the world worse.
Reading: Extremely active rats had 400% more reward sensors in brain: http://www.futurity.org/exercise-drug-addiction-1021322/ (Maybe certain humans do too)
@philipgryan I skimmed it. That's raw research, not insight, decent analysis or prediction. It's also very very biased.
@philipgryan you'd realize, if you knew what a prediction was, that it's impossible unless you have 100% over all variables.
@philipgryan no one in banking or fintech has 100% control over all variables. Thus there is no accurate predictions.
@philipgryan using the term prediction is still pretty stupid. Stupid for you, stupid for those you interviewed.
@philipgryan try talking to some trained futurists, before venturing into the future space again. You might learn something.
@dgwbirch sounds like the lamest secret society. I prefer, "you may already be a member" --> so secret even *you* might not know, yet.
@philipgryan you are just the most recent example of a non-futurist type capitalizing on the work me & my profession do. It's a hot button.
@philipgryan & the future of money/banking/fintech is an especial area of interest. lucky you!
@philipgryan you perpetuate a myth about the future with your article. It damages serious work by seriously trained people.
@dgwbirch Indeed. I respond with Cacophony (you might recogonize a name here) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacophony_Society
Looks awesome. Perfect companion to my current reading of classic USSR Sci-Fi. https://twitter.com/jwz/status/652173051954532353
Highly recommended. https://twitter.com/AloneExperience/status/652176765008220160
@prestonjbyrne My DNA is an API! (my twitter morning has just gone full circle)
@prestonjbyrne Vampire banking: blockchain for blood payments
Because Advertising! Eyeballs! Money! Mass training of reticular activation system to negativity. https://twitter.com/BBC_Future/status/652174652303917056
Moo introduces proto-individual currency card, although they don't know it. Biz card + RFID http://www.moo.com/us/products/nfc/business-cards-plus.html via @ScottBeale
RT @monteiro: Users decide good design, not you.
Everytime I check out your tweetstream @NickSzabo4 , my twitter-crush on you grows! Damn you and your smarts!
@goonth hard to go teal when most individuals are orange/green/red. + green judgmental beliefs oppose the leap to yellow.
Fascinating read: The Nazi's & drug use. http://www.dw.com/en/a-fresh-light-on-the-nazis-wartime-drug-addiction/a-18703678 via @Silona
The retrospect review of current excessive widespread pharmacological medication will be fascinating. #presentaspastinfuture
Heya @ottoscharmer1 did you see the paper I wrote, How to Solve all the world's problems, using your methodology? http://www.heathervescent.com/heathervescent/2014/02/abundant-problems-abundant-solutions.html
Yum, Brains. https://twitter.com/prestonjbyrne/status/652229744428208128
Reading: Space vs Desert. Income disparity in New Mexico. This article is so rich in many ways: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/04/space-travel-virgingalactic-haunts-new-mexico-town
Reminds me of the time I drove by Bezos' locked up Blue Origin spaceport in West Texas enroute to the Santa Fe Institute.
I passed by the clock of the @longnow on that route too. Just south of Blue Origin's industrial locked gate.
Dear Beloved Santa Anas, thank you for sucking the humidity out of the San Gabriels and blowing your blustery kisses all over the mountain.
RT @diskgrinder: Google, Apple, and Microsoft are economic migrants, hiding their profits in offshore islands @amoski
There is this deep chill, excitement when you realize someone is demoing the reality of a scenario you wrote years ago.
RT @davekale: Hey it's @yesladypheOnix presenting @RxVR_ from #uscmedvrhackathon at @USC_CBC #bodycomputingconference
imageListening to @yesladypheOnix describe @RxVR_ : a demo that is very similar to a scenario I wrote 2 years ago. Wow! I am amazed. Excited!
RT @DrLeslieSaxon: At the @USC #VR Hackathon for health. We are awarding a $10,000 prize tonight. First presentation about diabetic retino…
At the #usc virtual hackathon empathy is the theme. I am blown away. Kudos @jayiorio & @DrLeslieSaxon & all at USC.
RT @DrLeslieSaxon: Judges say the common theme for the VR Hackathon was "emphathy." #uscbcc9
Real from the trenches of Identity and FB, from @violetblue https://medium.com/@violetblue/facebook-i-want-out-e1e891975531
@kaigani well then, let's talk!
Santa Anas in the Mountains, means it's a beach day in Malibu.
When you live in Los Angeles, the jetset lifestyle comes to you. Why bother traveling, when L.A. has it all.
A great list of practical product tools https://medium.com/@producthunt/the-best-free-stuff-for-startups-6b4df48e1744 via @anildash
And that's a wrap on the beach day. 4 hours swimming and boogie boarding in heavy surf equals ahhhhhh.
It's 99 degrees and the black hats in midcity must be sweltering in their suits and robes.
I sit in a cafe I wrote off years ago. Buttery french pastry on my fingers. I miss the time I was when I frequented here.
As long as there are heroes, there will be crisis.
When I apply the standards I use on myself, to others, they don't stand a chance.
@nelz9999 Um, omg. Wow. Hilar!
Coyote o'clock in the Mojave. Dark skies.
I'd be rich if this was the case. https://twitter.com/MirceaMihaescu/status/653416439634759680
Love this! cc @FuturistApala @mikojava https://twitter.com/jalak/status/644522312935579648
I was up early for dawn, the sun crested the mountains & I fell into a deep sleep, to dream strange dreams, awake my face in full sun.
RT @kevinmarks: “Language is not a protocol legislated by an authority but rather a wiki that pools the contributions of millions of writer…
Spotlights, shield, stars around a mountain top, a lion roars, the earth from outer space. https://twitter.com/BehindScenesPic/status/638422942028709888
Dark skies in the desert equals the milky way vortex overhead.
@skathica I don't photograph the darkness, but you can see the milky way over the dome in the photo set here: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/937948
@skathica thank you! Yeah, it's an amazing place & with every visit I make it more amazing. :) Come visit!
LOVE THIS! Hume, Sartre & Heidegger answering your tech support calls. http://existentialcomics.com/comic/51 #unapologeticexistentialist
The references alone! https://twitter.com/anabjain/status/654158878863704064
RT @janmpdx: Descartes: I think, I am Fichte: I am what I think I am Hegel: I think not-I so I am not not-I Nietzsche: I’ve never met an “…
Nothing like a little taoist existentalist reading with my morning coffee. Soothes my angsty soul.
I could spend the rest of my live in the desert reading/being/writing on taoism/existentialism. And tending to my cactus garden.
OK, I admit, I stopped posting all the fintech articles I'm reading. Too hard to keep up with my browser tabs.
My neighbor in the Mojave is retired military. We bonded over our "Don't tread on me flags." It's good to find things in common.
Of course, I wasn't flying my rainbow Don't tread on me. That's my favorite.
@doomcircusclown :)
Welcome to the 70s of the Internet https://medium.com/bad-words/why-twitter-s-dying-and-what-you-can-learn-from-it-9ed233e37974 by @umairh (not his title) #apathy #fearandloathingonsocialmedia #abuse #meta
Hume, Bertrand Russell and Kant as Capt Kirk, Spock and Khan. You're welcome. http://existentialcomics.com/comic/92
RT @janmpdx: A relationship is doomed if you don't speak the same anguish.
Good morning Mojave thunderstorms. Planted fresh cacti, while it sprinkled, sky filled with clouds & a rainbow. #moebiuslife
@MackReed hey, I have this dentist appointment, but I don't really want to go....
@rocza @joegerstandt what do you mean "disconnects from the future." My experience is women know the future just fine. Some don't listen.
A pastel, periwinkle, peach, pink mojave sunset.
Sunset o'clock at Dome Sweet Dome. For cameraoperator @ Dome Sweet Dome https://instagram.com/p/89eSI7JvSm/
Trying to get wikipedia to edit an article to match it's 2008 description is a challenge. Linear change misses the big picture.
It's the same with futures work. Linear baby steps give you one future, while looking at things broadly will give a very different one.
Thoroughly enjoying my October in the Mojave. Might never come back to "civilization."
Dreaming of Jacarandas, Palo Verdes, Ocotillos, barrels of cacti. And learning more than I ever wanted to know about lumber and rocks.
Literally skeletons in the closet, an alien in the kitchen, an army of inflatable pools toys in the fireplace. Things in my house.
Everyone who wants to live on Mars should try to survive a summer in 29 Palms. I got your beautifully desolate planet right here.
Super pursuit mode! with a Kombucha Martini! https://twitter.com/AlexRoy144/status/656121188117147648
@tek_fin I can tell you the specifics & user experience of it. I require a verified id to rent my dome. #airbnb #trust
@tek_fin As AirBnB scales & audience widens, it's not just early adopter users anymore. Community values shift with the expansion.
I prefer songs in French and Japanese, preferably melancholic with rising optimism & electronic punctuations.
That Guardian article about wealthy ennui. More money = less empathy. Et, more money = less a human.
He's at it again! @AlexRoy144 drives coast to coast setting the first Augmented Driving Gumball record. (Damn you, take me next time!)
"Tesla's autopilot doesn't go over 90 mph. (pause) That's a good thing" - @AlexRoy144 Me: Hehe, only humans can drive >90mph! vroom! vroom!
In case you are missing it, @AlexRoy144 is making augmented driving history right now. #justsayin
@MadelineAshby look at you goddess of gold! Congrats!
In car automagic fuel payments are old paradigm -- the gasoline economy. A boring feature along the lines of notifications for wearables.
I always enjoy talking with the @RobotOverlordz! https://twitter.com/RobotOverlordz/status/656845253421436928
What do I think of Bitcoin & Blockchain? A conversation w/ @dgwbirch on his podcast: http://www.chyp.com/podcasts/heather-schlegel-purple-tornado/
@debgamble1 Thanks Debbie! A pleasure! @dgwbirch
Yeah, but don't get fucked or fucked up getting your fuck you money. https://twitter.com/sjanand92/status/656861410782281729
Peak fuck you money http://www.heathervescent.com/heathervescent/2014/04/peak-fuck-you-money.html an article from my archives for @sjanand92
How does one "nab" a degree from Harvard @sarahbuhr?
My thoughts on Augmented Intelligence, digital assistants and the future - with the fun @RobotOverlordz hosts! https://twitter.com/RobotOverlordz/status/657149552642912256
@davidgraeber that's why I keep my research on the future of money independent. I refuse to play the academia elitist game.
Disappointed with @Airbnb. You can't be a half-assed activist.
Since 2010, I sent my grandmother flowers every month. Today I sent her last bouquet. Safe travels Max. <3
@windley Thanks Phil. She was the inspiration. :)
The fragility of death put so much into perspective. I wish we could keep this sense of consciousness in the rest of our lives. I try to.
Another BTC/Blockchain convert. https://twitter.com/herdingbats/status/657303575605964801
Trying to pick music by the album cover is just ..... impossible. Well, can never go wrong w/ @AphexTwin.
"Unicorns are junk food for the human mind, heart, spirit." Fantastic piece @umairh. https://twitter.com/umairh/status/657212278861930496
AirBnB doesn't even make it easy to do so. And they don't help/support local hosts & govnt co-create regulation. https://twitter.com/cczona/status/657241626381651968
Yeah, cause GenX was so optimistic. #jaded #lamehbr https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz/status/657289597156761600
Great piece asking AirBnB to have more civic responsibility. https://medium.com/@jacklionheart/to-belong-anywhere-you-have-to-respect-everywhere-421911a94916#.iyl3qk47m
You wanna have demographic competition? Of living US demographics, GenX has the biggest balls & worst attitude, we will survive. Suck it.
GenX also has the best BS meter, which is why you will rarely impress me.
> @richardbranson @Virgin or just ask/profile one of the many futurists already doing this. https://youtu.be/pbZu1WNJNLQ #futureofmoney
It's lonely studying the future. This kind of loneliness. http://www.lionsroar.com/six-kinds-of-loneliness/
When I don't do newsletters about the #futureofmoney, I impersonate Santa. (I am not kidding.) The season has begun #santarchy
Heya @chainalysis you got an online demo? Your website is vague. Digging for details for a piece. Thanks.
@sytaylor @jony_levin @dgwbirch @chainalysis Excellent! If you vouch for him Dave. I can't stand bitcoin blowhards. :)
@dgwbirch looking forward to it. Enjoy Vegas, the glitter & gold. Couldn't pay me enough to set foot in that city. ;-)
OMG the https://www.hellotwist.com/ video is so Kawaii! Can I say that about a connected lightbulb?
@prestonjbyrne @AnthonyMacey ?! you guys!
I want to see pictures of this mega beautiful hurricane. We should only be so lucky to experience it in all its destructive glory.
A gorgeous film. https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/657669207052677121
@prestonjbyrne @AnthonyMacey I recognized. I used to wear?carry? my cat that way. A perfect perch.
Nature is awe-some. https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly/status/657641917136637953
Fascinating TED talk by Nikos Passas, asking who benefited from the Greek Bailout? Hint: Not Greece https://youtu.be/d4Dj0qdWLnk #corruption
@sblackmoore yeah. one good thing, people are looking at the greater context, and how things work together. Everything is connected.
Tough lesson, but sometimes true. https://twitter.com/ILLUMlNATI/status/657742312571826177
Of course they should! But humans are more adaptable than computers. As technology evolves, we make better HCI. :-) https://twitter.com/finnern/status/657741882747817984
Thank god for media hype! Media hype is always totally justified! #jaded
Spending Sunday morning working on a ppt memorial w/ my Dad of my Grandmother. Then I drive to SF. The last of a generation is traveling.
I sent my grandmother flowers monthly for 5+ years. It inspired my video about the #futureofshopping using #vrm. https://youtu.be/rOJOpSWsm4w
Because people should send flowers to their grandmothers (& other loved ones) in the future, as well as the present.
Hype is like sugar, it's in everything. Some more than others. https://twitter.com/goonth/status/658329388921036801
Packs of coyotes may be a more apt description of these "unicorns." Everywhere, howling at the moon, & scared of humans.
@goonth yeah. hmmmm, hype-free media. I like it.
> @pmarca corporations are the new individuals.
Was just talking about Augmented Intelligence w/ @biosopher this morning! https://twitter.com/RobotOverlordz/status/658673493421215744
A snooze fest? https://twitter.com/dgwbirch/status/658694511040659456
Wow. This quote kinda goes against everything I know about the future. And the #futureofmoney What a sellout. https://twitter.com/MurrayNewlands/status/658400248281346048
@dgwbirch where's the jam?
Now identity on the blockchain is something I can get behind. Kicking off agenda creation at #iiw
RT @biosopher: @heathervescent barely here from LA and we're already discussing weaponized AI porn. #thefutureissexy
RT @justin__richer: Another #iiw is starting up, lots of new faces and already some good conversations going.
RT @benwerd: Getting started at #iiw. I'm convinced ads will give way to content payments. Let's see.
imageRT @evanwolf: #iiw topics i'd love to see (if i was there)… the identity of lost and abandoned things. (when your self-driving car's make…
Seems that using blockchain for identity is going open more identity problems than it solves. Disappointed.
@KarlaFriede if you are talking about blockchain, it's been around for years with no banking uptake.
@glarange72 @mikejcasey @oreillymoney I am sometimes known as the Purple Tornado and sometimes as just, purple heather.
Right, because long term thinking is such a bother! And learning from past mistakes is for losers!!! https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/659248998276993024
@thezhanly @pmarca @vgr I'd suggest my own backyard: Los Angeles. Globalized for the 1970s. #retroglitz
@pmarca @evanpro any experts who use the word prediction are idiots. Predictions are opinions, not facts. Word to the wise.
@evanpro I was referring to @pmarca 's experts. Equations are part of a story about the future, but not all of it.
@evanpro you can talk and conjecture about the future all you want. A prediction is a statement of fact and a dangerous one at that.
Congrats guys. I remember the geek dinner where you met. https://twitter.com/brentbushnell/status/659403262638952448
RT @REI: We believe a life outdoors is a life well lived. Retweet for inspiration to get outside on Black Friday. #OptOutside https://t.co/…
@aerinonfire indeed. Much to explore!
@BLR13 @dgwbirch what, no mad greek? That's my classic roadstop in those areas. Fun travels!
@dgwbirch @BLR13 it's totally classic! It has the world's tallest thermometer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_tallest_thermometer
@dgwbirch @BLR13 but the best pie in those areas is at Ludlow Cafe, off the 40.
@BLR13 absolutely! See you tomorrow!
"A lot of investing is about timing" VC investor @jalak on AI, intelligent nodes & the blockchain for @oreillymoney https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-future-of-money-is-smart-data-and-decentralization
Wow @missrogue your ability to focus on the silver lining amazes me. I wish you luck finding your awesome dream job! https://twitter.com/missrogue/status/660119501694963712
