idle gaze research ethos
Cultural research works differently. It is slow. Sometimes, painfully so. It builds through everyday behaviours and accumulates over time. What shows up as a trending moment is just one piece of a larger puzzle of signals, each shaping shifts in our ME WE ALL framework. We don’t need to debate whether a term like tradwife is real or overblown. What... See more
Creative destruction (German: schöpferische Zerstörung ) is a concept in economics that describes a process in which new innovations replace and make obsolete older innovations.[1]
Werner Sombart • Creative Destruction - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Keynotes, conferences and opinion columns are steadily multiplying; a frenzy of consultants, researchers, experts and gurus feverishly setting their sights on the distant horizon to inform the anxious and concerned businesses, citizens and politicians about what lies ahead.
As the skies darken, the fog thickens and strong gusts begin to blow from... See more
As the skies darken, the fog thickens and strong gusts begin to blow from... See more
idle gaze 061: stressful dystopias & VIP utopias
Information has never been so available but your job isn’t information. It’s the inner life of the information, the tenuous tension between clusters of information that don’t seem to belong together but can if you playwright them to.
Mark Pollard • Strategy Is Your Words: A Strategist's Fight For Meaning
If we’re to resist the gravity well of banality, extract ourselves from of the containers of the past, escape the stifling grip of pre-packaged thinking, refuse to be complicit in the astro-turfing of culture, and create better, desired futures rather than merely slipstream into default ones, then what we really need is imagination. And the... See more
martin weigel • Fighting The Astro-Turfing Of Culture, The Gravity Well Of Banality, And The Stifling Grip Of Pre-Packaged Thinking — Martin Weigel
A point echoed by Martin Weigel in his piece for Contagious.
"Instead, the task of strategy is to race into a better, more exciting, more valuable, more desired imagined future – and then to turn around and work back to the present to make it real. Imagination, in other words, is for the impatient. For those who want to create accelerated realities... See more
"Instead, the task of strategy is to race into a better, more exciting, more valuable, more desired imagined future – and then to turn around and work back to the present to make it real. Imagination, in other words, is for the impatient. For those who want to create accelerated realities... See more