Happy October. This is a good month for candy. This newsletter is mostly about a new business venture, along with a few other odds and ends. In the Meantime I’ve just launched a new partnership with Jerrold McGrath called In the Meantime. We offer services to support people in
Making consent an agenda item One of the chapters of my career was working as a professional facilitator, running public engagement processes for governments and government agencies. In doing this work I got to spend an unusual amount of time considering, reviewing, and designing meetings of all sizes and with
In staying with Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millenium, today is a jump to the fifth: multiplicity. As far as this being a newsletter goes, what follows is “news” about the situations that the use of generative AI is creating for organizations, and society writ large. The
Welcome to newsletter six. This one’s a summary of an AI note-taker etiquette session held last month. It was supposed to be about more, but I’m deferring to the idea of quickness instead. Newsletter seven will be about music, culture, and democracy (ish), including reference to The
Welcome to newsletter #5, on meetings in the age of AI One of the phrases I reach for when I write to people I care about that are going through a hard time is “words fail.” It’s a way of giving myself permission to try (and fail) to provide
Welcome to newsletter 4 I am leaning into this newsletter not having a matchy-match existence and relationship to the prior three editions. Yet. Freedom! Fall in love with the problem, they say. This has been my method with AI, and other than a few months of exceptions over the
The phrase “AI policy” sounds serious. Policy is part of a stable of serious words such as governance, framework, principle, and guideline. These words - which represent types of rules, generally - are high-level, often abstract. They leave a lot to interpretation, by good design. And they’re often the kinds
Draft For Feedback Welcome to the second in a series of posts describing the praxis - the working method - behind Time & Space Studios – also known as T&S Advisory :) This one's about doing. The first one was about thinking. I think two posts marks the end of
Draft For Feedback Welcome to the first in a series of posts describing the praxis - the working method - behind Time & Space Studios :) This one's about thinking. The next is about doing. The five statements below are frames and questions for structuring conversations about technology decisions. What they