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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Signs you've been with your partner for a very long time #1. Receiving a Valentine's card arouses suspicion and thoughts of psychological warfare.

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

Everyone is looking at somebody else's answer.

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Happy New Gregorian mother hubbard's!

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Shout out to all the kiwi families camping at Christmas and New Year!

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Get a Mac they said. All your problems will be solved they said. I've got to say I've not been that impressed switching back to a Mac from PC. Safari is a nightmare. When so much work is online it keeps screwing me over. Need some time to figure out optimal settings for everything!

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

I woke up yesterday freaking out. My vision was blurred and I couldn't get it to correct. My wife booked an optometrist appointment for me. I was panicking and pretty upset. But there is a happy ending. Turns out Chris is middle-age and needs reading glasses. 🤓

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Maybe it should be called "COP-OUT"?

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

The AI-themed Substacks are having a meltdown.

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Fighting the hegemony, one Black Friday at a time. Gold.

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Only in New Zealand. My friend just messaged me and asked if I wanted to go for a coffee. She lives out of town, but is coming into the city. The reason? To pick up some dead native birds from the airport which have been flown from an Island where they are pests. This is fully on-brand for her.

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

For whomever needs to hear this. A moustache in your twenties is not a flex. 〰️

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Tell me your favourite hip-hop album and then tell me why it's Midnight Marauders. Big 3-0!

The front cover of A True Called Quest's 1993 album - Midnight Marauders. Includes a jet-black figure painted in fluorescent green and red in a faux zebra stripe. Behind are a number of iconic hip-hop artists with can-style headphones. Their expressions allude to listening to a preview of the album and being blown-away by it. Artists including Beastie Boys, Africa Bambaata, Ice T, De La Soul and many others.

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Made it onto the Near Futures Laboratory newsletter two-weeks in a row. 💥

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

What an absolute piece of shit. 💩 Also check the alt text game on the image. 🙏

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

It’s an armored personnel carrier from the future -- what Bladerunner would have driven.

An original illustration of Noddy in his red and yellow car.

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

If you can't back yourself, who the fuck else is going to back you?

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

Continuing the reconnaissance mission of finding who I used to follow on 🐦

A photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie Predator covered in mud to avoid the heat sensors of the blood thirsty alien opponent.

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

Don't discard your ideas. When imposter syndrome creeps in, fearing they're not good enough, it's easy to feel discouraged about sharing them. But without sharing your ideas, you'll never really know. If your gut tells you there's something in it, you owe it to yourself to set that sucker free!

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

I just closed 1274 tabs on Google Chrome on mobile. 🤯 I knew there was a lot open so I counted each one as I closed it. I now feel motion sick from the tabs moving across each time I shut one down. I don't know it was even possible to have this many tabs open. 😫

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

This advice will help 80% of people improve their customer interviews: Focus less on asking the questions and more on listening and responding. It's a 'discussion framework' not 'a list of questions'.

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

When your advice is: "Buy the Tardigrade plushy toy." Good work Kammi! 😍

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

"Elon Musk's worst nightmare." A fascinating article on ex-fighter pilot turned tenured academic and driverless car researcher, Missy Cummings. "Both bro culture and a disruptive mindset, as she sees it, incentivize companies to gloss over safety risks." www.businessinsider.com/missy-cummin...

businessinsider.com

Elon Musk’s worst nightmare

Missy Cummings flew fighter jets for the Navy. Now, as a leading expert on automation and AI, she's taking aim at self-driving cars.

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

If you're a designer you should be doing side projects. I think about them in three buckets. Go and have a read of the new issue of Radical Things to find out what they are. open.substack.com/pub/radicalt...

open.substack.com

Why bother with side projects?

This week's radical thing is: Three types of personal project to increase career resilience.

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Research Findings = Analysis Research Insights = Synthesis

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Any design post containing "the real world" is an instant red flag to me. Why? Because generally it indicates an anti-theory or anti-academic position. Theory enables new practices to evolve and develop. And your 'real world' is a tiny slice of something bigger. Success requires praxis.

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

@round.bsky.social How do you find people you used to follow on this thing? 😀

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Chris Jackson @strategychris.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Somebody posted an amazingly marked-up copy of this book on LI. I felt fully inspired to get back into it. It's not an easy read, but it's certainly a rewarding one. Anyone who says Boyd is only about the (tactical) OODA loop and not strategy is off their rockers. 🤯

A picture of Fran's Osinga's book, science strategy and war. Blue book on beige carpet.

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