⭕ Cyberpolitik V1.6
Maxims & Reflections on Emerging Futures
Welcome to the World Creation Society. Cyberpolitik is your weekly dose of antidisciplinary maxims and reflections on emerging futures at the intersection of technology, society, and culture.
On Poetic Prose, Conformist Rebels, & Endgames
To form a coalition of the willing, campaign with poetry, govern with prose.
Every generation wants to both conform and rebel. They succeed by defying other generations while mimicking each other.
Thinking, my labour; writing, my portal; leading, my reward.
To digress is to delegate thinking you’re in charge of to others.
Begin with the endgame, and the path becomes clear; begin with the opening game, and the path becomes lost.
On Victory, Childhood Nostalgia, & Doing Equity
What is important is not the contest, but the victory; not to have fought well, but to have won.
We experience childhood three times in our life: once upon our birth, once when we raise children, once in old age.
The natural law of the universe is to strive to create bigger and bigger idiots.
In business and love, no such thing as free love. One party says I love you, the other says, I know.
There is a ravishing passion in the discovery of something deeply embedded in the human breast.
He who will have equity or asks for equity, must do equity.
On Gasping Ideas, Business Jargon, & Mental Societies
Big ideas first make you gasp, then make you wish you thought of them yourself.
Being creative includes being able to sell what you create.
Today’s business jargon is so artificial that it will look like the language of 14th century Italian courts.
Neither talent, nor genius, nor education can replace determination.
In every mind lies a society of its own; to enable imagination is to shut the majority opinion of your mind.
On Undignified Innovation, Secret Affordances, & All-in-One Platforms
To innovate is to discard your dignity and pride to get a pulse on the ground for any seismic opportunities.
A secret is an affordance with no signifier.
Clock in, and eventually, things will start to tick-tock.
A platform that can do everything for us is a platform that can take everything from us.
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