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William Gibson I have been thinking a lot about William Gibson recently. Judging by my social feeds, the Neo Tokyo aesthetic has saturated mainstream culture (from 90s anime clips, tech wear, creator built cyber decks and Hong Kong at night) and our Silicon Valley elites sound more like Wintermute at every turn. The K-shaped economy […] The post William Gibson + more things appeared first on Ged…
July 2026 introduction – (36) Welcome to the 36th edition of my newsletter or as a bingo caller would say ‘three dozen’. And yes that’s the most uninspired yet functional bingo lingo I’ve come across on this journey so far. 36 seemed strangely appropriate as that was the temperature inside my house on the celsius […] The post July 2026 – the three dozen edition appeared first on Ged Carroll .
Great interview with Jensen Huang Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia was interviewed by Axios. In the wide ranging interview he is advocating for open LLM models. He thinks that the benefits of closed models ties in with the benefits of scale and convenience from cloud computing infrastructure. Jensen Huang also talks about […] The post Jensen Huang + more stuff appeared first on Ged…
Writing about consumer grievance came from a couple of things. I was watching a lecture by professor Robert Reich at Stanford and it reminded me of Edelman‘s 2025 Trust Barometer report ‘Trust and the Crisis of Grievance‘. Edelman’s annual report is a barometer, a global snapshot of who and what consumers trust. As long as […] The post Consumer grievance: a marketers atlas appeared first on Ged…
I was thinking a lot about consumption when I came across the psychological concept of moral licensing. Doing something that is thought of as a good behaviour boosts the self image, leading to a sense of justification in a more indulgent behaviour later on. It explains incongruity in human behaviours. One example that immediately came […] The post Moral licensing appeared first on Ged Carroll .