Who is Nick?

Asking, all my life.

And…?

My name is Nick Kempinski. I’m Sniff, from Who Moved My Cheese. I’m INFP. I have a passion for all things Media*, product, design, & sociology.

I create, build, and customize to empower: CMSs to help you share, CRMs to help you manage customers & clients, Ecom tools to help you sell + advise & consultation to help you make sense of it all.

.. otherwise, I’m still figuring it out

*Seriously all Media: visual, audio, communications, academic, commercial, industry, print, broadcast, music, podcasts, paid, earned, owned, shared, social, ephemeral, temporal, geographical, etc….

Weeknotes

Random notes on AI, Orality, Life and other musings. Weekly-ish.

  • Weeknotes 2026-03-23
    2026-02-24 – 2026-03-23: slow and steady hunting: adventure, creativity, music and meds.
  • Weeknotes 2026-02-24
    2026-02-04 – 2024-02-24: Getting into the nuts and bolts of engines: my brain, and AI’s. And, the lessons along the way.
  • Weeknotes 2026-02-04
    I’m stepping out from the shadows a bit. Sharing code repos, tinker projects and playlist. More to come for sure.
  • Weeknotes 2026-01-29
    2026-01-19 – 2026-01-29: Would you drive a Ferrari in rush hour? That’s what I was doing with Claude.
  • Weeknotes 2026-01-19
    2026-01-09 – 2026-01-19: Swapping Gemini for Claude for a bit to see how it goes. Oh and a new cat is making it tough to type.

Into the Postliterate

Deeper thoughts on society, Media, and Aliteracy ( orality ).

  • AI summarizing Technology and Orality in a Podcast
    Take Ong, Postman, McLuhan – smash them together in NotebookLM and then click Audio Overview. Have a listen and enjoy.
  • Sound and the Soul
    We’re at the end of the exploration of Ong’s psychodynamics of orality – The Interiority of Sound.
  • Words are signs, everywhere!
    The first of Ong’s psychodynamics of orality I can’t argue: “Word are not signs.” In our world they most definitely are and likely always will be.
  • Orality and the Sacral
    This weeks continuation of our oral culture discovery: “Orality, community and the sacral”. You only get nervous about things that are important.
  • My Verbomotor Kinda Life
    “Verbomotor Lifestyle”. Is it why no one wants to talk on the phone anymore? Is this the first twist for aliteracy and why we’re still good with subtitles?
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