otrops: jeff van campen's personal blog

Significant Object shows us how to turn cheap crap into something meaningful and valuable.

More and more organizations want to have some kind of transcendant purpose. Partly because it makes people work better. Partly because that’s the way to get better talent. And what we’re seeing now is that when the profit motive becomes unmoored from the purpose motive, bad things happen. Bad things ethically sometimes, but also bad [...]

Your time is limited. So don’t waste it living somebody else’s life.
Steve Jobs speaking at the Stanford University 2005 Commencement. I couldn’t agree more, and I wish I’d realized it earlier.
Here’s the entire commencement address:

Or why I’m deleting my Facebook account
At the end of this week, I’m going to delete my Facebook account. I’ve given this a great deal of thought, and I feel I owe an explanation to the family and friends who use Facebook regularly.
Ten-four, good buddy
Years ago, I had more money than sense. I also had [...]

Posthumanity… will always be just over the horizon. Always in The Future. When the systems and augmentations we now consider to be posthuman hit the real world, they will have become simply human in scale.
That’s because augmentation – the development of systems and technologies to allow us to do and to be more than [...]