The Scribbler: When Language Gets Cheap, Thinking Gets Expensive
A quiet change has taken place in executive life, and it is not "AI" as such. It is the arrival of smoothness as a default condition. Language is
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Technology
On technology, AI, and the gap between what a tool promises and what an organisation actually does with it.
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Leadership in the Digital Age: Harnessing Technology for Business Success
Leadership in the digital age requires balancing timeless qualities—wisdom, courage, empathy—with responsible use of technology. AI and data should support, not replace, ethical judgment and emotional intelligence as leaders guide people toward shared goals.
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Thunderous Ambivalence
Because being off the grid is next to impossible in many societies, it is tempting to give up and proclaim 'I have nothing to hide'.
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Acting for Privacy - An Australian Story
There is the case to be made that this is not only the cost of doing business in the digital age but that, like environmental protections, there are great rewards to be reaped in improved quality of life.
The Commons
Tempus Fugit
As Apple's privacy respecting posture gives way to the pull of marketing dollars through making user data the product, their third way begins to fall short.
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On Replies and 'Reply Guys'Opinion
We do well to live and let live, we also do well to post and let post. Devote what limited energy we are gifted with to thought and the formulation of our views and let the 'reply guys' reply. They are, generally, all sound and fury signifying nothing.
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Autodeleting the Public RecordOpinion
Rage if you will and burn screen time if you like—I simply accept if I want my thoughts to be personal and private then I ought not post them online.
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A Warning From ContentOpinion
You can join me in camp confusion or post using or not using CWs with a certainty that would make a prophet blush.
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Twenty Years of Firefox
Little did I know how consistently Firefox would be my window to the World Wide Web, nor how its security, and in time privacy focus, would shape my understanding of what it means to be online.
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The Subjective Nature of 'Nothing to Hide'Opinion
Whether you have something to hide has far more to do with who is looking than what they can see.
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Marginalia: Anatomy of a Search Engine
I wonder if there is an alternative reading in which they did not make a conscious decision to be 'evil'?
Inner Circle
Hugo: Or, There and Back Again
Time again at a premium, I mused on my latest quest for minimalism. In doing so I realised that I was creating as many problems as I was solving.
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Moxie and the Server
To determine if the statement is 'true', we don't need to poll everyone — only to understand the category of the statement.
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The Linux Paradigm
In science, a paradigm is a model or pattern — a typical instance or exemplar. But in rhetoric, my chosen field, it is an example or guide as to how one should behave.
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Power and Control: Tech Billionaires in PoliticsOpinion
Don't worry about the populist, worry about what comes after them. And what is coming seems clear: Billionaires of the 2.0 revolution.
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