Empathy is not a soft extra. It is a warning system.

It tells us where a process is failing before the dashboard does, where people are being lost between forms, platforms, policies, and polite automated replies.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/the-architecture-of-absence-why-modern-60d?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#CivicIntelligence #Empathy #SystemsThinking #DigitalGovernance #HumanCenteredDesign #AlgorithmicGovernance #PublicInterestTech #Ethics #REDefine

A promise can circulate beautifully before anyone asks what design would make it real.

That gap between moral language and material consequence is where public trust begins to thin.

This piece is about coherence as leadership: keeping words, responsibility, and reality in the same frame.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/coherence-is-a-form-of-leadership?r=6l8ed8

#Coherence #Leadership #CivicIntelligence #PublicLife #Democracy #Accountability #Participation #InstitutionalTrust #SystemsThinking #Redefine

"Don't let your past define your future" - Futurist Jim Carroll

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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
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In the late 1990s, I was at the top of my game.

I had written 34 books and was the go-to expert for the "Information Highway." I literally did thousands of interviews with the media - and can still find many of them online. On paper, in print, and in broadcast, I had 'arrived.'

I did so many interviews that for a long time, I was pegged everywhere I went as 'that Internet guy.' And yet, when the dot.com collapse happened around 2001, many people thought the disruptive impact of the Internet had come to an end.

So too did my career - the result was that my bread and butter dried up.

People no longer wanted 'Internet strategy.' They wanted the next big thing, and that 'big thing' was a broader range of trends and disruptive innovation.

Since I was spending all my time on stages and boardrooms speaking about those issues, albeit with a technology and Internet focus, I decided I would be a "Futurist, Trends & Innovation Expert," a self-anointed title I carry with me to this day. That's when I came to realize that the "Infinite Pivot" isn't a one-time event.

Why did I shift? By 2002, I realized being "The Internet Guy" was a brand with a shelf life. The world was moving from how to use the web to what the world would look like next. I had to do something uncomfortable: abandon a successful brand to build a significant one.

At the time, it felt like a massive risk to leave the security of a known niche.
But by choosing my own title, I was claiming the future. I stopped being defined by the tools I explained (the Internet) and started being defined by the perspective I provided (the future).

I was NOT letting my past define my future. Just as I refused to let my accountancy career and designation define my technology role. (I'm still, at this moment, a CPA! I just don't talk about it much!)

And wow, was this pivot a success!

It took hard work but from about 2005 to this day, I've built an entirely new career with an entirely new brand. And in this is a critical lesson for any organization: you might be the market leader today, but if you allow that success to define your identity forever, you will become a legacy act.

True agility requires the courage to "self-title" into your next phase before the market forces you to.

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Futurist Jim Carroll is still known to some folks as 'that Internet guy.'

**#Past** **#Future** **#Redefine** **#Identity** **#Pivot** **#Brand** **#Reinvention** **#Change** **#Internet** **#Futurist** **#Courage** **#Legacy** **#Agility** **#Transformation** **#Career** **#Success** **#Growth** **#Evolution** **#SelfTitle** **#Freelance**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/04/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-7-dont-let-your-past-define-your-future/

#zios right now are trying to #redefine #antizionism to mean #LiberalZionism.

They're using the #midterm #election in the #USA to do it. #AIPAC and the #Democrats use their #denouncements much like the #NRA uses its #ReportCard, now that they know how #unpopular they are. They use so-called #progressive #canditates to drag the #left edge of the #OvertonWindow rightward.

#This is #MovementCapture. It's the #RatchetEffect. They want to create #ControlledOpposition to #Israel and #imperialism.

Después de probar decenas de juegos de ZX Spectrum, hay una cosa que me desespera bastante, y no es la capacidad gráfica ni el tiempo de carga de los juegos en cassette, sino la distribución de teclas para los movimientos arriba, abajo, izquierda y derecha.

Reconozco que "me crié" con un Amstrad PCW 8256 y que para ese ordenador los únicos juegos buenos eran los de Opera Soft, y estos siempre tenían la misma configuración de teclas: Q=arriba, A=abajo, O=izquierda, P=derecha y ESPACIO=disparo. Así que me acostumbre a esa disposición de teclas.

Bien es verdad que también hay bastantes juegos de ZX Spectrum que usan la combinación QAOP para los movimientos, y otros tantos que permiten redefinir las teclas antes de empezar, pero me desesperan hasta la muerte los que usan combinaciones en las que las teclas para mover el sprite arriba y abajo están dispuestas en horizontal o en la mitad derecha del teclado..

Me siento totalmente inútil si tengo las teclas de arriba y abajo en la mitad derecha y las de izquierda y derecha en la mitad izquierda. He dicho. 🤓

#Spectrum #juegos #redefine #keys