Nick Kempinski
Nick Kempinski
@nick@whoisnick.com

Doing things for over 40 year; 20+ of those on the web. Now federated @nick@whoisnick.com

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  • A needed time of fallow

    Humanity is audacious. We have the audacity to believe that we are capable of exponential growth in perpetuity. And yet, humanity cannot sustain itself forever. We must stop periodically and rest: to sleep, to eat, to heal. Humanity cannot manage exponential, our bodies are more designed like natural fallow systems. Rest is not a choice…

  • Dopple-GIF-er

    It’s creepy seeing a gif that: It looks like you and Something someone might actually catching you doing

  • From gin to whiskey

    If, like Clay Shirky wrote, coming into the information age was like the gin craze before the industrial age, then we as a society needs to go to AA, because I think we traded Gin for whiskey.

  • Journalists and Lawyers

    There are good lawyers & bad lawyers. But we still know they follow the law. The power is in the institutions and systems that make them. Journalists should be the same. The more I think about this, the more I like it. Lawyers have a “bar” organization that oversee’s the overarching ethics of behaviour Judges…

  • My Mind on Media

    I’ve always thought about media. Sometimes, maybe my thoughts are behind the times. Other times, I’m wondering who else in this world is having similar thoughts. Maybe it’s all because I recently finished Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death. Maybe it’s because of the topsy turviness happening all around us. Maybe, I haven’t found, yet,…