thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

Occam's Razor cannot really be applied to life. Life is to too complex. 

Fear is the mind-killer. Everyone knows the old saw right what's the difference between fear and anxiety. Fear is being tied to the railway tracks anxiety is thinking about being tied to the railways tracks. 

Dropped out of college in 2017 because I was doing it for other people and not myself, flew from my hometown in Germany (Bremen) to NYC with no plans, documented the journey on social media, and built an audience of 35,000 followers across platforms (LinkedIn, Instagram & Youtube).

Their statistics tell them all these things will happen, and the end of the world is not. Some of them use it as a grift. The user is a way to get more money out of people. I mean, because people will use all sorts of tactics to try and get more money out of people, you know, they don't necessarily need to be truthful. 

To understand where the future is going to go, but when you're making decisions favor their reversible ones because reversible decisions may be completely wrong moments after you make them.

Cecile Alper-Leroux is the Group Vice President of Research and Innovation at UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) where she writes and speaks extensively on the changing nature of work, people, and technology in the workplace. Since 1999, she has focused on fostering a culture of innovation in the workplace, resulting in the delivery of advanced, people-centric technology solutions and services. A best-selling author of From Dissonance to Resonance; Bringing your people and organization into sync, Cecile is a Top 100 HR Tech Influencer and a Great Place to Work® For All™ Leadership Award recipient. She is an internationally sought-out speaker, thought leader, and visionary on HCM trends, hot topics, and global strategies who has been featured in Forbes, HuffPost, HR Magazine, HRD Canada TV, and The Wall Street Journal.  

Passionate about people and technology in the workplace, Cecile has dedicated her life's work to helping companies design the best possible experience for people at work so they can achieve great things. A seasoned economic anthropologist, she loves uncovering micro-cultures within organizations and helping leaders and HR professionals effectively respond to evolving workplace dynamics, trends, and opportunities. Never one to shirk from a challenge, Cecile has scaled Mt. Kilimanjaro during a record-breaking weather event, hiked the Machu Pichu trail—several times (taking 24 women with her once), and perhaps most challenging of all, picked up and moved her young family to France with nothing more than 6 suitcases and an open mind. Surely, they’d find work and happiness on the other side (spoiler alert: they did). 

 Pretty much anything that comes along, if we want to work with it, we can modify our behaviors to work with it

And one of the biggest problems I see with remote work was a study when I was a Stanford on working from home and how remote piece affects employees when they're out of the office and study after study after study. We have through tons of different studies. Employees to work from anywhere, not to mention the connections they can make innovative connections they can make if they worked in various places. If they didn't come could go to the same office every day, hang out with the same people every day, think of the innovative things that they would see when they would be they could clash all these you know serendipitous encounters I mean better than just working from home working from anywhere go-to cold coffee shop immerse yourself in other locations expose yourself to new things and come up with innovative new ideas. 

Great interview with the VP, Insights & innovation of Shur-Tape - the folks ho brought you Duck Tape!

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All these virtual assistants don't work for us today. They work for Google, or they work for Apple, work for Amazon.  They work for whatever corporations created them, so the Alexa sitting on my desk right now is listening in on every bit of my conversation, which works for Amazon. It's like having an Amazon employee sitting in your office.  We need personal AIs. We need an A. I. they can help us to fight back and negotiate with these corporate AIs because we're in a fragile position right now. I mean, we're just human beings. We're just poor human beings with limited brainpower. We can only do so much.  They will become the interface between me and all of these A. I. is there pushing their agenda because I will personally push my agenda, my family's agenda, my friend's agenda, my relative's agenda, the agenda of the human being at the other end of this chain of communications.  I would love to talk to that person. I think it's well past time that we would have AIs that can personally fight on our behalf for our interests as human beings against this massive infrastructure of eyes that we can barely touch because we are, after all, simple humans. We need eyes on our side.