January 2012
10 posts
Investment is in Change
“everything moves, nothing stays and I should not hold on.”
—Ilse Bing, photographer 1899-1998
The pace of change means flight is not optional. So, we travel light, take flight at will, rest only for an instant.
We will not invest in what is changing, only that it will change - and in an “instant.”
We invest only in change itself.
Photo credit: Mike...
How to Be Successful
My daily reality:
change comes fast, hard and with certainty.
This means I am always; continually; and without relief, uncertain.
In today’s world I am left alone to create myself - over and over again. It is both my freedom and a prison.
In my quest to my today self and in the flow to my next, I am always searching for guideposts, examples, case studies, the best practices from those who...
Shopping for Self
“Let’s go on searching for our real selves, it’s smashing fun - on condition that the real self will never be found. Because if it were, the fun would end.”
—Slawomir Mrozek
’Make yourself,’ ‘invent yourself,’ ‘be whomever you wish to be.’ Those who offer us the trappings for our modern ‘becoming’ journey are...
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Always ready to begin again
In a liquid world being one’s “self” is never a given. It is something to become.
We are always in search of “the example” for getting it right;
always ready to begin the next task toward “becoming.”
Tomorrow we will meet again.
But perhaps the ‘we’ who will meet tomorrow will not be the ‘we’ who met a moment ago.
Building trust takes too long.
Credibility, then, is our only asset.
“Marketers rely on the unstable to create desire (models, trends, fashion,...”
– Linda Zimmer
—Photo credit: Janefk, Flickr
“‘Who are you?’ said the Caterpillar.
‘I — I hardly know,...”
– Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
“‘Individualism’ consists of transforming human...”
– Zymunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity
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Fake Places, Distributed Selves, Real People
We are liquid beings. Beings who live digitally, not fixed in time or space. Our digital selves are completely indivisible from the person navigating the solid world. But even there we inhabit a culture in which guiding structures are melting away.
Our liquidness - and its loneliness - interest me intensely.
Zygmunt Bauman, renowed contemporary sociologist, began articulating his theory of...