by Suzanne Whitby | Aug 7, 2024 | Notebook, To export
The contribution of “childless cat ladies” to society The BBC’s post about Usha Vance defending her husband’s “childless cat ladies” remark has prompted me to put a few words to paper. In my world, today’s wicked problems are...
by Suzanne Whitby | Apr 30, 2024 | Notebook, Short. Honest. Human., To export
Thought-provoking. Evidently, children must be protected from stories about wolves in fairy tale forests (that may have been used to warn young women in factories to be wary of wolf-ish men). Obviously, no need to worry about guns. The text below the two girls says,...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jan 18, 2024 | Notebook, To export
Don’t be a dick. In my on-going business development experiments, I do a lot of emailing. Whilst I was putting my email together this morning, I wanted to write, “Bottom line? You don’t want to be a dick.” I didn’t write it. It would...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jan 16, 2024 | Notebook, To export
The legacy of the A23a iceberg I’ve never thought of icebergs as having a destiny before, but this paragraph has made me think differently: “Their destiny is to fragment and wither to nothing. Their legacy is the ocean life they seed by dropping entrained...
by Suzanne Whitby | Dec 27, 2023 | Notebook, To export
To comma or not to comma, that is the question In creating the “hopeful, sustainable futures” project, I was struck by a moment of uncertainty. Although I always separate hopeful and sustainable with a comma (this is a phrase I use a great deal in my...
by Suzanne Whitby | Dec 22, 2023 | Notebook, To export
AI is not the puppet master Stop saying “AI did this” or “AI made that.” That’s the long-story-short version of Scott Rosenberg’s brilliant article about AI and human agency. Oftimes, humans like to talk about artificial...
