Brian Thomas Clark
@btc
Strategist/Producer/Collector
Digital Experience Director @risd
Brian Thomas Clark
Social media encourages us to think of every thought we have as interesting; it makes everyone else feel accessible, and therefore disposable; it exposes us to endless bad actors, hardening our hearts and compelling us to suspect the worst; it rewards vulnerability, but also incentivizes defensiveness; and, most cogently for the purposes of this es... See more
Dirt: What was 'replying'?
What was 'replying'?
Shouting into the void that answers back.
Mariah Kreutter on what it means to “reply” in 2023.
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10/9/2023
In the digital age, cultural artifacts are eroded by abundance. Timelines layer and compress artwork, images, and artifacts into corners of the internet. In my corner, I stumbled across a speech entitled “Perfume, Defense and David Bowie’s Wedding” delivered by Brian Eno in 1992 at the Sadler Wells Theatre in London. In it, Eno predicted the nonlin... See more
The Future Will Be Like Perfume | Are.na Editorial
Having a digital product strategy means your organization has defined the value you want to deliver to your customers through software and digital tools. It’s a plan that tells staff and customers where you are applying your focus. It also includes a strategic plan, or product roadmap, for how to get there.
Having a product strategy isn’t the same ... See more
Having a product strategy isn’t the same ... See more
Adriaan Bouten • A Complete Guide To Digital Product Strategy and Management
As the Internet became an always-on, mainstream phenomenon, however, it also reverted to the mean. Influencer culture happens at scale. It’s not about finding the bizarre nooks and crannies of weird, but reaching as many people as possible. Hit counts and numbers of followers are all that matter. It is about getting bigger, rather than smaller. Rea... See more
Douglas Rushkoff • Pockets of Weird: The Fight Over Reality
Pockets of Weird: The Fight Over Reality
A new Team Human Live with Occult Historian Mitch Horowitz
Dec 18, 2024
It can be hard to encourage people to speak candidly in front of the CEO, but Duckett says she has a go-to question she “always” asks employees to get them talking.
“What would be the one thing that you’d change if you were [in my shoes], like, ‘Finally I get to be the CEO and I can get something done’?”
By asking that one question, you “immediately... See more
“What would be the one thing that you’d change if you were [in my shoes], like, ‘Finally I get to be the CEO and I can get something done’?”
By asking that one question, you “immediately... See more
Fortune 500 CEO 'always' asks her employees this question—Harvard expert says it's great leadership: 'Well done'
Some companies have sought to alleviate the strain by offering sessions in mindfulness. But the problem with scheduling meditation as part of that working day is that it becomes yet another task at which you can succeed or fail. Those who can’t clear out their mind need to try harder – and the very exercises intended to ease anxiety can end up exac
... See moreThe exhaustion experienced in burnout combines an intense yearning for this state of completion with the tormenting sense that it cannot be attained, that there is always some demand or anxiety or distraction which can’t be silenced. In his 1960 novel “A Burnt-Out Case” (the title may have helped bring the term into general circulation), Graham Gre
... See moreIn order to make room for this weird, this liminal zone of possibility, we need to get off the grid-like map of quantized utility and grow a culture instead. We do this together by forming clusters of human weirdness; groups of people with varying forms of space, voltage, and potential between them. We need a cohort, a rabble...what Jews call a hav... See more