Making NonSense of it

We are outraged at 12-year-olds in mines. We cheer at a 12-year-old in a national competitive ice rink.  What price are we ready to accept for entertainment?

Gamification is often confused with being just a game. It is actually being a host to your guests, and create memorable moments that will trigger a voluntary interaction.

Logics tells us that time should be either linear, cyclical or circular. Either it begins and ends. Or it repeats itself endlessly. Or it does not begin nor end but is a loop. These 3 states are mutually exclusive.  However, our individual experience tells us something different. Our experience tells us that time can be linear and cyclical and circular. Time does begin and end every year, fro...

How to keep our personal dynamics going while interacting with groups? By becoming parts of overlapping orbits. After 2 years of social distanciation, we re-engage with family, friends or colleagues. Lets have a look at the different gravitational systems in groups, and how they compare to our own.

How to deal with imbalance? Whether in work or in personal life, it is a daily experience. Simply denying it or “correcting” never seems to make it disappear. It seems either futile or even counter-productive. Imbalance is actually a very powerful motion vector. With only balance, there would be no tension, no passion, no needs, no aspiration. All these are movements too. One can re-start another....

We saw that the Metaverse redefines Identity and Access. It also redefines value.  The core promise of the Metaverse is a seamless transfer of items, services across multiple realities. To do that, we need an exchange system,  exchange units with a series of fundamental qualities. There is no universal solution as yet. Blockchain technology is  a strong basis to build on, the core t...

The metaverse will ultimately referee where you can go, what you can see, what you actually see. This means defining our multiple individual layers of reality, physical as much as digital. This means our individual reality, as well as how much this will be a collective reality.  

The metaverse is not virtual meetings between avatars. It is the technological, financial backbone that underpins the merged reality today. For it to exist, it will define your identity tomorrow, that is for yourself and for others.

Generation Z in China. 254 million strong, disposable income, technology, infrastructure. They have the potential to create a new global youth culture (cf. my previous article ). A live observatory of Gen Z, at scale. The 3 underlying core trends. 

Cultural shifts used to happen in London, New York or San Francisco. It has moved East, to be led by the youth of Shanghai and Beijing, after Seoul. 254 million Gen Z in China with a high individual disposable income. A preview of the future?

We can access an unprecedented amount of information, freely and openly. The catch? Given the amount to dig, we need help to free-dive this ocean, hence the search and selection algorithms. This means that the help comes at a price, and the risk is to be caught in a digital loop endlessly refracting our own choices back to us, trapping us in a sterile self-serving vortex. The only viable solution...

So, the metaverse a meme, a tech hype, a viral buzzword? Or is it the very fabric of our world? The choice is yours, but this is too big a topic to pass on. Weary of yet another one of these cyclical Next Big Thing? Then lets define what it is not. Picking up from where we left in [part 1] …

Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook to Meta, as in metaverse. For his new stock filing, he claims the name metaverse (MVRS) itself. For such a novel concept, Wii-like avatars and VR goggles meetings is rather underwhelming? What is actually the metaverse? What is at stake?     

Over the years, we have lost the implicit trust in intellectual authorities. This erosion is not primarily due to social media, internet, conspiracies or fake news, but to the failure of the reference authorities themselves to live-up to and live-by the expectations they created.       

Our perception of time has changed over the past years, partly because the disappearance of the cultural and political narratives of the 50s (cf Fukuyama) but as well because technology enables us to recreate and seemingly improve on past created contents: how many more remakes, retakes, prequels, documentaries and author recycling of the 19th and 20th century do we need to try and get on top of t...

Generation Z, depressed and depressing, unmotivated and nihilistic? Maybe, but, after all, what examples have they been shown so far which woudl not make this their logical behavior? No Future, No Problem! 

Any changes in our January 2021 top 5 trends? No, apart from some becoming even more prominent and urgent!

In this first episode of Unboxing New Ideas,let dive into the contemporary Army doctrine as outlined by Gal Guy Hubin, proposed and summarised by Martin Shurkin for the Texas national Security Review on their website WarontheRocks.       

Anyone else having an eerie feeling so far in 2021? Just me or did conf-calls, emails, posts, memes and tweets just walked straight out of our screens, into our living rooms, our streets, our markets? Regardless of your date of birth, time-zone or position, the digital space has been the one consistent reality.  What does it mean? Digital and physical realities melted into an integral, organi...

On the surface of it, everything was upended. But how much of it will still be relevant once the emergency fades away? How much of it is the new normal and how much of it is just circumstantial? How much to build on this, how much to invest in this, what do we need to adapt?

a new Trust, Reality, Future, Time, Space for the markets, the consumers

Introducing the podcast version of the blog "Making Non-Sense of It"