David Edgar's website

Wednesday, 11 December 2024

πŸ”– The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age

Every notification ping holds the possibility we have merit. When we scroll, what are we looking for?

Yeah, I felt that one.

Monday, 21 October 2024

πŸ”– Into the Wreck

The beginning of examination of how linked the systems within which we operate are, and how that affects us.

Saturday, 19 October 2024

πŸ”– Every company should be sold to its employees

I can't decide if this is arch-capitalism or not. I am still brainworkmed by Kim Stanley Robinson's economic models from the Mars trilogy, and fell in love with the idea of joint ownership co-operatives. I loathe stock options offered to employees, which grant no actual ownership, just asking staff to give the company a loan and in return by on puppet strings

Wednesday, 06 March 2024

πŸ”– Behind F1's Velvet Curtain

Kate Wagner, author of McMansion Hell, is sent by Road and Track, to do a piece on F1. Wagner has positive impressions of a driver, Lewis Hamilton, neutral impressions of the sport, and negative views of the rich, high-status people in the same audience areas as herself. Road and Track actually took the article off their website an hour after publishing it and at time of bookmarking there is very little context as for why. The explanations given by the editor in chief don't make much sense even to me, a non-media person.

Saturday, 15 July 2023

Was highly amused at the Product-Engineering quartet alignment meeting the duelling declarations, spoken within minutes of each other, that we need an AI feature to differentiate is from the competition and we also need an AI feature because we’re losing sales as the competitors are all promising one too.