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  • Conversations Create New Roads

    ‪Lots of email newsletters have been pushed out this year. So many are a collection of links, maybe some marketed goods, rarely long-form. But, where’s the conversation? Where’s the resulting products from those conversations? The convos to the concepts to the creations?‬ ‪Been a year trying … read more

  • Clarity in Conversation

    Each conversation is another lesson in what others might do or want to do in order to make steps forward. The most common theme comes from the peeling off of the stated problem to what the actual issue might be. Then sketching across an ocean of possibilities, guiding the direction of something … read more

  • Perceiving Productivity Normally

    Using an iPad to teach how to use a PC changes perceptions and behaviors of productivity Over the past month, have been working with a long-time client on changing the methods used to teach a few base-applications. A previous shift, from published workbooks to organization-specific content (lived … read more

  • Weekends in A Snap Space

    Might be a weekend, but pressing forward deserves play spaces not always as linear as a weekday’s newsfeed read more

  • Intuitive As Design

    Arguing for intuition over prediction or known indicators? Yes and no. In between a clearly identified problem and its “so obvious” solution is the chasm called opportunity. It is within this space so many projects live and die. Some of the better ones become well-known, not just for an ability to … read more

  • Inventing the Other Stuff

    In between the actual projects taken up by this Avanceé banner, there’s some intentional thinking space given to creating or exploring items in a fuller fashion than perhaps where some of those projects might travel. Sometimes, this comes out fully expressed into a concept or process that’s mostly … read more

  • Experience Strategy & Engineering Complexity

    Came across a few terms when looking further into some of the problem spaces of digitally-augmented teams and organizations: experience strategy and complexity. Both of these terms speak to both the problem to be addressed, and the opportunities which lie at solving them. However, they might do so … read more

  • Why I Use Earn.com for Contact Form

    In a recent conversation, it was asked why there’s such “friction” to contacting me/Avancee. For a little more than a year, I’ve been using a domain redirect to point towards Earn’s Bitcoin-powered contact platform. Not so much as a replacement for email, but as a replacement for the kind of … read more

  • The Disconnect

    Talking w/client about offline options for a future project & remembered the innovative approach of ⁦‪@the__disconnect‬⁩ — given the environment of asking persons to own their attention, perhaps this is more of a necessary innovation 🤔 thedisconnect.co read more

  • Brigadoon Annapolis Transcript, Pt4

    Final installment of the notes which led to our Brigadoon Annapolis lecture on Digital Humanism. View Part 1 View Part 2 View Part 3 Humanism I’ve mentioned the term agency a few times in this talk, and that’s more or less the core of what digital humanism design means. How are we using these … read more