Simon Cowell: Here we go again
TBH, I was never a SC fan. I never bought the talk that Cowell was an industry mover but he did build an empire on exploitation.
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The Actor
There's no choice but to learn
the choreography of deception
where to pause, where to nod,
how to soften a scream into a tilt of the head.
Holding on to Heartache: A Story
He wants to let go, but sometimes letting go means forgetting—and forgetting would mean losing the only proof the thing ever existed. So he keeps it, this tender ache, wears it like a medal for loving hard and surviving harder.
Spiral
Spiral' is dedicated to one person I know, but at the same time it stretches across the universe for all of us. With spirals at our back, what we hold in front becomes more precious.
This art can be found at the Waxing Phoenix Virtual Gallery.
Chapter 11 - Kismet
How Long Will We Swallow the Lie?
The myths we cling to now are manufactured in boardrooms and back rooms, polished for our consumption, meant to distract, to pacify, to give us something to hope for, or rage against, or buy.
Engineering People At Scale
What if the game isn’t about control through fear, but through comfort? Through curated choices that never really felt like choices? Through tech that learns what we want—then slowly decides what we want?