Dirk Knemeyer

Social Futurist. Managing Director @TeamSciStories. Co-Host @TGDRT. Grateful husband+father. Past Lives: @GoCreativeNext, @GoInvo.

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My new project on the impact AI-driven automation will have on creative professionals is going live on February 19. Check our website to hear a preview episode and sign up for our low-volume mailing list: https://t.co/j3BwwdQGSk

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@andybudd I’ve been proceduralizing and automating my company so it is prepped to later sell to the widest range of buyers and at the best multiple and it’s like you’re spying on the arc of our last 6-9 months.

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@bigmediumjosh @brad_frost Congrats, Josh! Thrilled for you both and inspired by the quality and scope of the work.

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@SorenJohnson I feel that. It was a reach to spend a meal on that instead of a crowd pleaser like sushi, ramen, etc. But, so worth!

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@benjaminlistwon Just happened to see this and sorry I missed the poll. For when faced with a similar choice: Snow Crash movie script!

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@SorenJohnson This is an epidemic in the @Microsoft ecosystem. I stopped using #Skype years ago for this very fail loop. Recently someone requested I use Skype for a call with them and, shock, still isn’t fixed. Never opening Skype again.

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@GilesPink Some companies flip it on purpose to force errors that make it less likely users opt out/unsubscribe/whatever action the company doesn't want them to take. It falls into a class of UX called "dark patterns".

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Our body is a system. Our life is a system. We humans, together, are a collective system. And the systemic impacts of things we used to think were unrelated are only going to become more apparent in the decades ahead. https://t.co/DTluTxBY88

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@sbkaufman Fearing something and doing it anyway.

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@TheElsieEscobar Same. I only call ppl (other than professional meetings) when I'm driving for the same reason. Makes my mom a little crazy.

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@GilesPink Me too brother.

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A friend was chiding me for working on vacation. He asked me the last time I took a real vacation with zero work. Originally I answered not as an adult but then remembered: they had no available internet in North Korea. My only adult full and proper vacation was to North Korea.

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@sbkaufman I've found I actually appreciate more intimacy than most people. But, then I also appreciate more solitude. It's dealing with people in groups that I almost never need.

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I work with and for smart and lovely people. Hope your work experience is similar, and that you're having a great day today!

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Yahoo Answers is shutting down. Back in the Web 2.0 days Y! Answers was important for a minute or three. Logging in for the first time in many years, my Questions and Answers are a weird trip down memory lane of a hyper-specific time for both me and the interwebs. #RIP

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@sbkaufman Sounds lovely. Would require a remarkable degree of emotional maturity and self-esteem that most people don’t currently have. How do you propose we bridge the gap?

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Both clients and co-workers, I love the people who I'm working with. So fortunate for my work life to be full of smart and lovely folks.

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@gengelstein No I do this as well. I think it is instinctual empathy. Similarly, I'm 6'4" and I instinctively slouch when around shorter people (almost everyone!) because I feel uncomfortable around people taller than me and want those I'm around to feel comfortable.

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Birgitte Nyborg is my fictional hero. Related, if you haven't seen the show "Borgen" before it's on Netflix and totally worth.

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Eagerness to express my ignorance in order to better understand always ends well, often including better interpersonal relationships thanks to the perceived humility inherent in the act.