iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

The urban crows in Vancouver are much friendlier than our rural crows. This one let me get within 1 metre and posed for a picture

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

I was at the rally for clean energy today with about 400 people at the NB Legislature. We even had some special observers ensuring this group of mostly senior citizens would be safe ;) "And I went down to the demonstration To get my fair share of abuse […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Police sniper in military clothing with a sniper rifle draped in camouflage cloth on the roof of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, NB, Canada during the opening of the Legislature on 20 October 2026

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Screenshot of MacOS27 Golden Gate system systems. Why, except in hell, would I want to use ChatGPT to do anything for me? And this was on by default

Screenshot of system settings:

Extension: Your Mac can use ChatGPT to help you write text, create an image, answer questions, and more

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Diversity > Learning > Trust — become the key elements in building better organizational structures that can help us differentiate between stark reality and blatant lies. These elements are how we should connect because it’s in the connections that we can […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

"Unlike mechanical systems, human systems thrive on variety and diversity." -Esko Kilpi

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Voice of the People Rally 20 October at noon Outside the NB Legislature in Fredericton Let's speak up for clean, affordable, renewable energy for all! No more expensive, polluting energy projects in New Brunswick. Let's make it LOUD & CLEAR! atlanticwildlife.ca/pcic #NBPoli

Voice of the People Rally

No more EXPENSIVE, POLLUTING energy projects in New Brunswick!

Tuesday, October 20, Legislature, Fredericton

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@EdwinG We used to have the Radio Canada International towers in our back yard, here in Sackville, NB. Until they tore them down and decided that there was no more need for short wave radio

RCI towers for shortwave transmissions near Sackville, NB in 2004

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

This is the primary reason I will not use data-centre driven Gen AI. The secondary reason is that it's all based on stolen work, like mine jarche.com/2023/04/getting-scraped

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

After a crappy #cycling season of mostly 30 km rides due to some weird reactions to medications I finally got my birthday ride in today, that’s my age in km – 67. It hurt but was worth it. I’ve done this for the past quarter century. Next year 68

Old guy with white beard WEARING A BIKE HELMET AND GLASSES stoped in Midgic NB

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Is #PKM bullshit? Only when it is technology-centric, and not a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world and work more effectively. The bullshit is believing in a technology silver bullet, but unfortunately BS […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Working Smarter with Personal Knowledge Mastery

Connect with Others through Knowledge Networks
Challenge Assumptions in Communities of Practice
Co-create Value in Project & Work Teams

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Atomized digital #media offer instant self-publishing and extend our emotions. They obsolesce the linearity of print and the nuance of long-form writing. As a result, too often, people feel that their opinions equal facts. Digital communications retrieve the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

McLuhan's media tetrad

every medium -
extends a human property,
obsolesces the previous medium (& often makes it a luxury good),
retrieves a much older medium &
reverses its properties when pushed to its limits

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

@JessTheUnstill We forgot about the last pandemic very quickly. I once asked my father-in-law, a historian born in 1927, if he had ever heard the previous generation discuss the flu pandemic. He had never heard about it while growing up in Nova Scotia […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

B/W photo — Emergency Hospital at Camp Funston, Kansas during the influenza pandemic— Wikimedia

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I actually spoke on this stage in 2015, after apartheid. It was weird to be there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BIvf-ZlJNc

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

In 2014 I started the first of the online #PKM workshops, based on a model of three activities per week over six weeks to be done as a cohort with a common start and finish date. I would be available to respond to participants and provide support as required […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Working Smarter with Personal Knowledge Mastery

Connect with Others through Knowledge Networks
Challenge Assumptions through Communities of Practice
Co-create Value through Project & Work Teams

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

My side view mirror glasses and radar enabled tail light were no match for the asshole in a pickup truck who passed me with only centimetres to spare on an empty road and then stopped ahead of me to jump out with a baseball bat and threaten “you people make […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Tri-eye glasses with embedded mirror and SeeMee radar tail light

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Digital #media are changing how we communicate, in real-time & often with a global audience. The atomized electric media offer instant self-publishing & extend our emotions. They obsolesce the linearity of print & the nuance of long-form writing. As a result […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

our digitally networked society

According to Marshall McLuhan, every medium -

extends a human property,
obsolesces the previous medium (& often makes it a luxury good),
retrieves a much older medium &
reverses its properties when pushed to its limits

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Maybe it's time to get back to some old tech in the house. This guy still works (if I pay for a landline again)

Rotary phone by Northern Telecom circa 1930

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Basically, Gen AI has taken what we have collectively built and sucked it up in order to feed it back to us top-down. We built the knowledge in these platforms. These #AI platforms want to think for us, even though they are based on our thinking. I think not. […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Delacroix painting of Liberty leading the people

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

I see many posts with Michael de Adder's cartoon of Dolly Parton walking to heaven in her coat of many colours but almost none attribute Mike. He is an artist,. She was an artist. Show some damn respect. deadder.substack.com

Cartoon by Michael de Adder of Dolly Parton walking into the sky, carrying her guitar and wearing her coat of many colours

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

“We will never transform the prevailing system of management without transforming our prevailing system of education. They are the same system.” ―Peter Senge (1990) The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

I'm concerned that automation + capitalism = a perfect storm. This was the case with the augmented work enabled by the personal computer. Knowledge work improved significantly but wages did not. The mainstream press treats these algorithms like actual […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

GPT & LLM extend our voices, obsolesce many forms of human writing, retrieve the ancient Oracle of Delphi, and when pushed to their limits reverse into Potemkin villages. GPT & LLM provide instant synthesis that may be good enough, but often contain errors. If they get used to answer all our questions then they become tools for “aphoristic nincompoops posing as techno-oracles”.

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

This is a jet flying over our town. Probably from NYC or Boston on the way to Europe. I remember back on 9/11 how many planes touched down here in Atlantic Canada. The governments were worried about destruction to major centres but we rural folks were […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Jet with contrails in the blue sky seen from below

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Went back to the beach to see the thousands of plovers hanging around (when the peregrine falcons were not attacking)

Semi-palmated piping plovers on a rocky beach in New Brunswick waiting for the krill shrimp as the tide ebbs

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

We watched the migrating semi-palmated piper plovers just down the road from us. They eat many times their weight in krill shrimp before flying South. Today’s count was about 170,000

Sandpipers packed on a rock beach at high tide waiting to get the shrimp left on the mud flats

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

The Odyssey may likely be the first example of misogyny in a written work. "One day, Penelope comes downstairs and she hears a bard singing very sad songs about how difficult it is for people like Odysseus, her husband, to get home. And she says to the bard […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The TIMN model by David Ronfeldt

Tribes — Oral communication — Feminine
Institutions — +Written communication — Masculine
Markets — +Print communication — Masculine
Networks — +Electric communication — Feminine

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

“The promise of generative AI is that it can think for us. That is a truly fascist idea, the idea of outsourcing thinking; and so our power is in our ability to think with each other. To generate genuinely new ideas.” —Naomi Klein In order not to become […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Liberty leading the people, by Eugene Delacroix

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

The #Covid crisis was wasted and the sociopaths at the top of the company hierarchy have taken back control. #RTO jarche.com/2026/07/a-wasted-crisis

Company hierarchy pyramid, bottom to top:

losers
clueless
sociopaths

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Foreshadowing #RTO (2020): Now is the time to look at new societal infrastructures to implement post-pandemic. If not, we may go back to the old systems that got us into this mess in the first place. e.g. Working from home & learning online decreased CO2 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Museum diorama about the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 showing peasants dragging a prostrate dismounted knight off the field

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

I’m pretty sure this is the sign my parents saw when they arrived in Canada in 1956

Welcome to Canada sign in Polish, German, French, Dutch, Italian …

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

My walk to work in Copenhagen in the Winter of 2017. Safe cycling and walking were prioritized even in the dark. #cycling #civilization #UrbanPlanning

Shared cycle & walking path. The path is lit in the early morning Winter dark with children on bikes. This path crossed the main train station high above ground.

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

From 2014 — Here are some of the key questions when looking for signals of change in the marketplace: • What jobs are customers trying to get done? • Are customers not served, undershot, or overshot by current offerings? • Where are new business models […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Not all innovation is disruptive, based on Clayton Christensen's examining undershot, overshot and non-consumer customers. Looks for signals of change from non-market conditions.

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Let’s make sure the #AI future is not all it’s cracked up to be (2022) ... "At this point, I’d put far more trust in the data centre protesters and the concerned parents to craft a real AI strategy than in the prime minister." —Paris Marx (2026) jarche.com/2022/12/the-future-crack…

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

I live on a short dead end street. Our property is along one side while five houses are along the other side. Sitting on our back porch I have noticed over the years that none of our neighbours walk anywhere. Often I will see one drive back and forth many […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

View from our back porch with potted herbs looking at a road and our closest neighbour

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Diversity in our thinking, ideas, cultures, gender, and everything else is the key to our survival and future growth. jarche.com/2018/03/retrieving-gende…

A matrix of pencil drawings of various human faces with the word 'diversity' across this montage.

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

Today marks 23 years of freelance work at Jarche Consulting. Most likely my last year. It's been quite a show! jarche.com/clients

Some clients of Jarche Consulting:
Carlsberg
AstraZeneca
Domino's Pizza
ING Bank
Citi
Snow Software
Cigna
Prime Minister's Office of Finland

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.” —André Gide (1869–1951) May I once-again present self-determination theory by Deci & Ryan? jarche.com/2026/06/everything-has-b… #PKMastery #PKM

Self-determination theory, which encompasses autonomy, competence, and relatedness [not what Dan Pink promoted] as put forth by CRHA in Quebec, Canada

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

The Energy & Utility Board of New Brunswick has approved a 500 MWh methane/diesel powered electric generating plant on the environmentally sensitive Chignecto Isthmus that connects Nova Scotia to the mainland and is an important migratory route for species at […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

I love my radar enabled bike tail light. Motorists give me much more space now. #cycling

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

‘Decentralised social media is more than just a technical shift; it’s a step toward restoring autonomy and trust in our digital lives, empowering individuals and communities to connect without compromising their values or privacy.’ —Zhilin Zhang, University […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Mastodon statue at Mastodon Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

Conversation is the main way that non-codified knowledge gets shared. We should continuously seek out ideas. We can then have conversations around these ideas to make sense of them. Sharing closes the circle. Without effective sensemaking at the individual […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

It is only through innovative and contextual methods, the self-selection of the most appropriate tools and work conditions, and willing cooperation that more creative work can be fostered. The duty of being transparent in our work rests with all workers, especially management. —Harold Jarche

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

CBC Radio 1 is asking on Cross-country Checkup if Alberta should be allowed to separate from Canada. I support Albertans that want to leave Canada. Just leave all the Treaty lands in Canada […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Numbered treaties between Indigenous people and the Crown in Canada. Note that Alberta is all treaty land (4, 6, 7, 8, 10). Source: Wikipedia

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

Tantramar Marsh on the Bay of Fundy in Sackville, NB, Canada on a dreary cold white Winter's day, with the Tantramar River covered in frozen mud. #MarshMadness

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

Empire's collapse when they run out of energy. "Throughout the history of civilizations, economies have been based on energy inputs, whether by human slaves or oil energy slaves. The bits of paper and metal we receive for our work are only tokens […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

USA: "My AI chip is 5x more efficient than yours."

China: "Cool. My electricity is half the price." USA: "That shouldn't matter as much as-"

China: "I can run lOx the hardware for the same cost."

USA: ".....I need to make a phone call."

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

I was finally on the bike today. As I get older I am not able to handle the cold so well. Today it reached 0C so I hopped on to my Winter bike with studded tires. It was nice!

Old guy with white beard wearing a safety green bike helmet and a red winter jacket with a snowy road in the background. Also wearing cool sunglasses fitted with a side-view mirror

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026

Personal knowledge mastery is a framework of practical methods to connect work and learning in the digital age. Online, cohort-based, self-paced workshop starts Monday, 16 February Seek > Sense > Share #PKMastery #PKM jarche.com/pkm/pkm-workshop

Learning informally and socially means connecting our individual work with our teams, communities, and networks. It requires honing our curiosity and seeking out different perspectives and ideas. It takes more than individual sensemaking to understand complex situations, so we have to find others to challenge our assumptions and learn at the edge of our professional abilities. But most importantly we need to use what we have learned in order to resolve challenges and co-create value. As we do this, we continuously share in order to make our communities and networks more resilient and able to make better informed decisions. This discipline is personal knowledge mastery.

One of the challenges we face in our professional and personal lives is making sense of the flow of information that passes by us each day and then aligning that with our current priorities and challenges. The Seek > Sense > Share framework of personal knowledge mastery is a simple method to help us stay focused in our sensemaking. The image shows how information and knowledge can flow when people develop filters to seek information, take time and effort to make sense of it, and then share appropriately, often adding value to what they share.

Establishing a few procedures can simplify the finding and sharing of information, at work, in your communities, or through your knowledge networks.
Machine filters allow information to be pushed to us.

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2025

It’s 16 November and the temperature is just above freezing but our rose bush has decided to push out one more bloom. Hope springs eternal.

Red rose bloom not yet open on a single stalk

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