Generally, the shape of connections between our intentions and reality are our to make. Whether you tune those connections, or tension them, both ends of this connection valuable enough to hold… for a time. Also published: An Inevitability of AI Doing Something read more

AI tools of this moment is only good enough to ensure compliance and comfort for this part of the change. read more

Across the week, there were a few moments of inspiration and connection. The knitting of all of these is some kind of lesson to a series of travels brokered by connectivity, but constantly looking ahead to whatever is happening next. Also published: Timelines March 2018’s Link Shares ♾️ Coming Soon: … read more

Trying a new thing called “Timelines.” Pulling on older posts to revisit the paths taken or remind of what’s been happening. Let’s start with the initial link shares which launched this effort: 2 March 18 9 March 18 16 March 18 26 March 18 30 March 18 read more

With the shutdown of the AiPin, our experience and experiment has come to a bittersweet end. There’s always lessons in the journey. And as always, this means simply to shift forward to the next things. Also published: Opining About Human-Centered Design in Civic Tech read more

Cropping a convo for a wider eye/lens… the context being design/human-centered design in (a/some) #CivicTech spaces How to be human centered when the operational objective isn’t to be humane, but to be operationally more proficient… such is the design challenge to transform its approach and posture … read more

By the time this has been posted, will have done an emulation of an older shape of things. Travel, connections, content, and not much in the way of a break. Packed moments at an increased pacing is a part of things for many folks these days. Lots coming at us, and not yet the time to take a … read more

A bit of a late posting, but can you blame folks for taking love offline. Well, in order to keep the love going here, here’s the notable reads which should have been posted last week. Also published: Update to the Brilliant Labs Frame 👓 Experiment Upcoming: next month is Avanceé co-facilitating a … read more

One of the advantages of Avanceé’s platform is the ability to explore and experiment as we desire. We can take a look at the edges of technology and pushed towards our own affairs. This has been the case with a few products from Brilliant Labs. First, we looked at the Monocle, a single lens and … read more

Each week these are shared with a sense of wonder and hope. Wonder about the shape of conversations and threads which meander about. Hope at doing something more than just pulsating silicon wafers until they cannot any more. Wonder and hope… a lot of what’s been challenged lately. But, also where … read more