Mastodawn

💥🔍 Behold, the intellectual circus that is modern academia: an endless parade of buzzword bingo featuring dead generals and urban chaos. 🎪🧐 This article is the equivalent of strapping a monocle on a bulldozer and calling it "strategic insight." 🚧👓
https://mwi.westpoint.edu/a-clausewitzian-lens-on-modern-urban-warfare/ #intellectualcircus #modernacademia #buzzwordbingo #strategicinsight #urbanchaos #HackerNews #ngated

A Clausewitzian Lens on Modern Urban Warfare

Among Carl von Clausewitz’s many poignant dictums, the most commonly cited is undoubtedly that “war is not merely an act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, carried on by other means.” While Clausewitz never fought in a city like Fallujah, Kyiv, or Gaza if the Prussian general and philosopher

Modern War Institute

Futurist Jim Carroll Oct 15, 2024

Daily Inspiration: "Sometimes the trends you think you need to be thinking about aren’t the ones you should be thinking about!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

Today I'm in Scottsdale, Arizona, and in a few hours, I'll be the opening keynote speaker for XSpecs 2024.

What is it? An event that features the attendance of most of the folks who build most of the major retail space for organizations large and small throughout North America.

The client was looking for a talk on AI. Then, they had a Zoom call where I started to outline some of the leading-edge trends defining the future of their industry, and things took off from there. It led to this keynote description:

The Future of Retail Construction in The Era of Acceleration

The rapid emergence of new design, construction, and management methodologies involving virtualized digital twins. The arrival of fascinating new construction materials. The acceleration of machine-based artificial intelligence and its impact on construction robotics and smart tools. Next-generation project inspection, safety, monitoring, and management tools utilizing drones and other advanced hardware. The impact of the next-generation building architect from the gaming generation - one who brings their experience playing Roblox to the construction world! And the continued innovations around the idea of 'connected energy,' with whole system deployment and integration of renewable energy sources, microgrid advancements, battery science, and smart technology. The future is fast - and you must get a powerful but useful interpretation of what is going on.

#ThinkBigger #FutureTrends #Innovation #RetailConstruction #BroadenYourView #AIImpact #Disruption #Leadership #ForwardThinking #StrategicInsight

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2024/10/daily-inspiration-trends-leadership-sometimes-the-trends-you-think-you-need-to-be-thinking-about-arent-the-ones-you-should-be-thinking-about/