We put on our own imperfectly understood exhibitive. It’s not our responsibility to decode what others might find fascinating about us. Artistic tastes, rooted in our 13-year-old selves, are constantly being refined. The foundation is there; the rest is just curiosity manifesting it. The most advanced stage occurs when perceived ugliness becomes part of the…

You can amp up anything and cheerlead until fiction becomes fact.  There’s no need for authenticity when the powerful can reorient the proper rules to their own fascist fists. Why do the” leaders” drag their constituents along the way? Their unkempt, unchecked emotions are the reason history remains unpredictable. The chaos leaves the individual no…

There is no time but to be a machine. Society demands our time in exchange for fiat. The sad reality is that time and how we spend it are more important than money. We crouch along the clock, unable to access its total fabrication. The industrial mindset distorts reality, just as AI intends to save…

The screen radiates from the mind power that controls it. The buttons are mere cover-ups for our real-life actions.  We’re more likely to shop online due to the ease of use, not to mention the dopamine hit of a vicarious follow-through. Swish. Putting an item in your grocery basket at the store recreates the same…

The stickiness of culture. It’s there to absorb, remix, and recast. Something new that comes along is misunderstood chiefly in its inchoate stages. From micro to the masses, uncoerced or perhaps marketed, the point of sharing ideas, culture, and memes is to establish identity to fit into ever-shifting mores that perpetuate thinking, style, and language.…

The cardboard box was a masterful abandonment until Amazon sweated its equity into making it marketable.  A brown piece of cardboard is Amazon, logo or not. A soda is a Coke. The brand name subverts the everyday object. There are many follow-up inquiries about the blank object. Not everybody wins the association game. Stickiness is…

The age of handwriting is over. And so, too, maybe the era of deep thought. That’s probably an exaggeration, but stick with me.  Writing by hand requires mind and pen coordination so that one never outpaces the other. This tempered speed, labeled fluency, is a bit like dribbling a basketball or soccer ball. You dictate…

Improvisation is at the heart of starting, mainly because it requires a decisive, intuitive, transactional reaction. We must take great interest in the moment and bite into a fight-or-flight situation.  The more prepared we are in skill level precedes our creative reaction to the prompt, whether it be a jazz cue or comedy session.  Playing…

Without a good system, we’d have to belabor the brain to start over again each time. Like a solid routine, a sound system trains the mind to get to work without all the extra narrative.  There will always be a superior thinker and runner based on genes alone. However, the individual who trains well, with…

Divergent thinking eludes the surveillance of predictive data gathering. We don’t want Reddit-style wisdom of crowds scraping.  The yardstick for creativity is immeasurable because there’s no precedent for unforeseen developments. There’s the hunch and then the endeavor, neither of whom is interpretable—perhaps later.  The mind’s eye hunts for a fresh blood of interest. It strains…

Are we to count ourselves lucky? There’s no reason to believe that our good fortune will last forever. At some point, the luck dries out.  One of the most powerful draws of positivity is the deflection. We airbrush reality out, obsessively digging for the silver lining. Darkness comes quickly, and he enjoys multiple rounds of…

We’re always learning due to an awakened curiosity. Yet, some strive to diminish the range of thought. Governments, schools, and social media platforms try to maximize the minimum to curtail the possibility of forming amalgams. Their agenda is to nod onto the status quo and jog off to making a difference. The bastards try to…