Glen Cassidy
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Creative. Strategist. Always building.
Glen Cassidy
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Had a great time repping Thinkerbell at 'The Great Attention Recession' at RMIT Online Skills Fest with the very impressive Mason Rook Georgia Fink and Bridget Cleary Some important things...
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Do we need to be constantly inundated with a firehose of content tuned to our lowest, base desires?
These days, you don't go out and find cool stuff. You get served whatever pablum the platforms think you'll consume.
We need more mess, more friction.
Open protocols like RSS, email, and the web give us the foundation for being more mindful:
Having a... See more
These days, you don't go out and find cool stuff. You get served whatever pablum the platforms think you'll consume.
We need more mess, more friction.
Open protocols like RSS, email, and the web give us the foundation for being more mindful:
Having a... See more
Clearly the cultural pressure to achieve a unique self is old, strong, and not unique to hipsters, so why did the authenticity drive spin out of control after CE 2000? One possible reason is that the hundreds of studies on authenticity in tourism and subcultures have also been read and in many cases sponsored by business thinkers who directly... See more
subpixel space • After Authenticity
In 2023 I sold or gave away almost all my possessions, including most of my record collection and music equipment, and moved to Paris with only a duffle bag. It was incredibly liberating to let go of decades worth of objects and you quickly realise that you need very little of the things we surround ourselves with to live and be happy.... See more
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I’m glad that I’m not the only one who misses old school human curation. For me, it’s more about wanting a connection moreso than valuing the actual thing being shared. I think this trend is accelerating. With generative AI and the ever-present algorithm that has sucked itself into every facet of our life, a part of the response to it will result... See more
Simon de la Rouviere • The Human Medium is the Human Message
Put a bag of cookies in the break room and it might sit for days.
Open the bag and leave it out, and within an hour, all the cookies will be gone.
We are happy to take a tiny slice off the thing that’s being shared, but we hesitate to open the bag.
The same is true with all of the initiatives in our culture. Design, movements and ideas are all... See more
Open the bag and leave it out, and within an hour, all the cookies will be gone.
We are happy to take a tiny slice off the thing that’s being shared, but we hesitate to open the bag.
The same is true with all of the initiatives in our culture. Design, movements and ideas are all... See more