Tag: social media

professional anecdotal

I have been observing the subtle art of the professional anecdote. As someone pointed out to me recently, LinkedIn and other similar networks, along with individual websites like this very site, a professional-ish blog, are rife with people wearing masks. Professional masks, of course. People post on sites and blogs like LinkedIn and their own…
negative stimuli

As much as we like to think of ourselves as reflective and thoughtful creatures, the hard truth is that our brains are highly reactive. They are, perhaps literally, hard-wired to respond to stimuli from our senses. It may even be true that much of this reaction occurs outside of our conscious perception of it: visual…
unsocial media

In theory, social media is an amazing idea. Tens of thousands of interconnected people sharing, creating, reacting, conversing and communicating in one space. In reality, the costs to run this technology has led to every single social media platform of scale ever created with any broad success turning into a hungry beast that needs to…

professional anecdotal