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OK, just to remind you that this actually is 2015, not 2014 or 2013 even, and the weather is getting quite warm up here on the Northern hemisphere. So … remember to check this out and weep for all those still not understanding… and remain stuck in the prepubescent stage whereas the mature of mind … Continue reading “Hot beards”
This: Same as with beards … ’nuff said.
[Terug naar de hoofdpagina] Jaja ik lees wat af. Vooral Filosofie (de Pre-Socratici en vergelijkbaar ouwe Grieken, Aristoteles, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Mahabharata dat werk), Geschiedenis (vooral pre-1900 en ook incl religie-vorming around the world met name qua gnostiek en de vele aanverwanten en vergelijkbaren), Sociologie (van vroege culturen in het Midden-Oosten t/m Arendt, Graeber … Continue reading “Lezende”
Which trendwatcher would be able to actually tell trend / predict what this year’s fedora would be ..? Because it’s a long time coming since the ridiculousness (^2) of this and this and this. Or this, this and this. Yes, all links to that era long past when ‘hipsters’ ruled – the joke market. As … Continue reading “This year’s fedora is ..?”
Yawn. Or not. The following will get real serious in 2016. Like, People will replace newspaper time with time online, wrote Bill Gates in “The World in 1998” https://t.co/8bCPCUg1Ph pic.twitter.com/bvnMCpJJUB — The Economist (@TheEconomist) December 11, 2015 Well, for the list with everything and their dog: Some Exits: Green Egg, ‘Cyber’everything, disruption/uberization, privacy, and, certainly … Continue reading “Prediction16”
Oh how Ecce Homo it is … In the search for authenticity, exposing one’s pathetically empty on that subject. Of course, referring to this here column on the desperation of searching the real deal — that straight away exposes itself as not the thing by definition through having to search for it. But then, probably … Continue reading “How to Not Authentic”
Once mapped, hipness lost of course. Like ‘beards’ went, two years ago. [Via Gizmodo]
Some of you complained about hipsters’ “fedoras” (quod non). To help on your way to Initiated status, the following: Which makes the choice easy, doesn’t it? Kindergarten beard plucks XOR being serious…: Or, for an even more classical look: Or even After which this here overview may also help, in a less culturally biased way.
Yet again, there was clarification re the demise of organizational culture … into totalitarian bureaucracy, greenwashed in ‘modernity, coolness and hipness’ with some doublespeak / newspeak and beards.(in Dutch >:-|): Nederland overwoekert door procesmanagement en eindeloos vergaderen. Ook in provinciehuizen. Wie doet er wat aan? pic.twitter.com/MkCByuqmXo— Jaap Stalenburg (@JaapStalenburg) September 20, 2014 Which would be … Continue reading “Short note: Büro muss sein”
[Not as much from another planet as from half a century ago] Yes we’re back with this; here’s the September edition of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews, a mixed bag; see what you missed this Summer: WIRED TIRED EXPIRED Humanity Analytics Cloud The latest wave is about humanity again, fortunately, as … Continue reading “Wired / Tired / Expired, September 2014 edition”