Tag: angst

…f it’s bad, you hope it will improve. Aside from the digital equivalent of cloud seeding (buying more traffic) you don’t think you can actually change it though. Perhaps the unspoken but obvious reason for this is that quantitative measures cannot, without a lot of luck and deductive effort, tell you why something happened. Consequently, you are almost always better off consulting your own judgement about what might change the weather rather than…

I was reading this Wikipedia entry today, and saw this: Roger Waters’ 1992 album “Amused to Death” was, in part, inspired by and deals with some of the same subject matter as Postman’s book. In The End of Education Postman remarks that the album had “elevated my prestige among undergraduates”, and says that he has…

I’ve not been writing (that’s what we posh people call blogging) nearly enough. Look at me: two posts a month in the last 18 months or so, yet my life is a sumptuous feast of complex events, rare occurrences and fascinating adventures – and that’s just with my UX hat on. Why, just today, some…