agreegegious
/əˈɡriː.dʒəs/
adjective
When one concurs with someone (typically, ranked above them in a professional setting) in a way that allows a decision that is extremely bad in a way that is very noticeable.
_agreegegious error: ‘It was an agreegegious error for the team to tell their client that he was right, when all the research and common knowledge of the target indicated that he was wrong.’
Glazy
/glā′zē/
adjective
Not willing to work or be energetic and offering compliments and praise to encourage others to work instead
Glaziness
/ˈgleɪ.zi.nəs/
noun
The state or quality of being lazy, so you increasingly compliment other people’s work, encouraging them to complete your tasks.
(Example: “My kid is so glazy, he insists the toast is ‘better’ when I make it.”)
Peter Thiel, founder of Palantir:
I'm going to name my company after a scrying orb that corrupts its wielders.
Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf, founders of *checks notes* Hugging Face:
Hold my beer.
I hate to be that white guy that would love a tattoo in an Asian dialect, but IF I WERE, the Japanese word Tsundoku calls to me…
Tsundoku: the act of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up unread.
“The term combines tsunde-oku (to pile things up for later) and dokusho (reading). It originated as Japanese slang during the Meiji era (1868–1912).”
It is often used to describe books on a shelf that are waiting to be read, though the pile itself is a key part of the phenomenon
Although, of course, the final true directive of fan fave hashira, Kyōjurō Rengoku, “Set your heart ablaze!” would probably be up there, too.
We hardly knew ye…
… but there is a reason.
Canxiety
Noun
a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome, caused by the government of the United States and affecting Canadian sovereignty, economic stability and safety.
Absolutely glorious cover design.
When Pinterest arrived, I had to use it to figure out applications for clients in digital marketing. For myself, i couldn’t see much use. It’s a lot of busy work - activities that lead nowhere. It reminded me of a much prettier version of early Netscape days, carefully curating and organizing bookmarks in a pre-Google era because to close a window was to forever lose that one Geocities page that you really needed.
I did use it to track what I was reading. That seemed like an application that was interesting. I did this from 2014-2017 and then stopped.
My problem, at least, I see it as a problem, is I have a hard time remembering when I read the things I read…from what I can best recall, since then, I have read the following…
Reads I can recall, 2018-2022
This is a mixture of my own selections and reading to my children…I am pretty sure there’s a bunch of business and non-fiction missing, but this is my best recollection.
I tend to experience inertia as I switch books. I find it difficult to emerge from a great read and just jump into the next one, but if I don’t, I tend to stop reading for a while and analysis paralysis sets in and I can’t decide what’s next, which is why I adopted a reading system. I have recently amended it to include genres I don’t normally seek out, like mystery, crime, romance, you name it. So, here’s the new roster:
Genre fiction, something really tasty (horror, sci-fi)
More literary fiction
Non-fiction
Business / brain improvement / instructional
Different Genre
Graphic novels (I’d like to return to reading more of these)
These are my ramblings on reading as I seek to once again keep track of the words that traverse the space between these ears.
Winner of the Giller Prize, written by Shehan Karunatilaka. Not only is the book absolutely fantastic, but this cover design has me swooning.
I made this….
I made this…
A passageway with no exit…. I love to capture moments that capture me…although, I can’t always recall exactly why they did…
I was listening to White Zombie’s BLACK SUNSHINE and wondered…what if the spoken word piece by Iggy Pop had been the copy in an old Ford Mustang print ad… so I found one and made this…. This… is Black Sunshine... (I made this)
Here’s the original piece. I love the original because (having worked in automotive advertising and digital quite a bit) it is clearly a dealer network piece with the approved master brand asset comped in.
A little something I wrote for Medium, where I discuss design iterations through the lens of Star Wars because, why not?
“Episode I alters Star Wars in a way that reminded me of my work life, leading creative departments in general and (a lot of) digital product design, specifically. It updated the mythology in the way that you might update a digital product with a new feature to improve it and it did it in such a way as to change what had come before by implication. THE PHANTOM MENACE iterated on a feature of the original trilogy story that improved the related components of that story in the way designers build and improve the features of digital products and experiences.”
Article: https://dylangerard.medium.com/altering-the-deal-635d7cad0bef
Another 5 minute goof off… (I made this)
Trigger warning - character death scene!
A silly thought from the Attack on Titan S4 opening…. (I made this)
Possibly the best show of the year…. (I made this).
Again..often the ideas are quite dumb…. (I made this.)
We stayed at a place that put VHS tapes in the rooms…alphabetically….
My sense of humour isn’t for everyone. (I made this).
