Brief interview for Amazon Web Services on how to think like a futurist and how to think about forecasts for a post-COVID19 lockdown. #trends #futurist youtu.be/27Nui0qMRbs

To misquote Ernest Hemingway, “I drink to make this future more interesting.” …emental-medium-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/elemental.…

Some sort of jester has been posting Chesterton magnets throughout the neighborhood. Society of GK Chesterton #chesterton #randomactsofthinking #mkeideas #bayviewmke #milwaukee @ Bay View, Milwaukee instagram.com/p/B_qlgIAH6JK/…

One of the coolest places on the planet is inside of this planet.

Beauty Matters

Laws are made not only to restrain the governed, but to restrain the governor.

Books exist to produce emotions: if we are not moved by them we practically have not read them. If a real book has not touched us we might as well not have touched the book. In literature to be dispassionate is simply to be illiterate.

There are some idea so stupid that only an intellectual would believe them. I think that’s the essential idea to The Emperor’s New Clothes. Do you trust your own senses, not just what’s popular and/or what the experts think? IOW, trust but verify...

“Together, we presided over the ruin of the working class, the reduction of the family to a luxury good, and the rise of the monstrosity of China. Sorry bout that.”

What we have to fight for is not freedom to be abnormal, but freedom to be normal.

In an age of ugliness, a work of beauty is an act of defiance.

We are lucky to be building upon the achievements of our ancestors, and the important thing is to maintain them and not throw them away.

A perfect book on why the automated, expert-driven future isn’t what we need.

This is how handmade globes were made in the 1950s

Drunkest counties in the USA. More than anywhere else, Wisconsin realizes what’s really going on and acts accordingly. #cheeseheadproud

Imagine if there were imaginative creatives who could use AI to reach a farther horizon rather than just a cheaper, faster, easier bottom line.

JUST IN: Beachfront home falls into the Atlantic Ocean on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The incident was thanks to Hurricane Ernesto which is off the coast in the Atlantic. The unfortunate owners purchased the 4 bed, 2 bath home in 2018 for $339,000. The home was built in