Below, you can find some recent and not so recent presentations which have occurred to me over the years, done usually by myself, and then again — on a couple of occasions — in collaboration with others.
I’ll be adding more as time goes by.
“Team A versus The A-Team”, in an earlier version of the presentation, had a picture of an advertising hoarding (billboard to them!) of the iconic TV show “The A-Team”: an example, it is true, of how life could be amazingly dealt with, and intuitively too … but the effect, while charming for some, would not have been to the taste of everyone these days.
Rightfully so.
So here instead you can find a revised version, in this case without our dear friends — although clearly influenced by their spirit in some key way or other.
9 slides
The above shows a brief overview of an idea that fascinates me: how to return to the privacy-state of pencil and paper in a digital century.
14 slides
the philosopher space | secrecy.plus/why | omiwan: the foundations
The Gutenberg of Intuitive Thinking is one of my most treasured taglines. It feeds off the experience of studying publishing for a year in Spain at the beginning of the first decade of this century.
Be warned (a tad, anyways …): the implementation one is a bit bad-tempered.
🙂
36 slides | 31 slides (respectively)
ive pics | never meet again: gutenberg (ii)
Tech-driven longitudinal gaslighting: neo-terrorism on the individual in my world. What happens when well-funded citizens and organisations repurpose legitimate big-data and other similar technologies for far less legitimate reasons.
24 slides
Another project dear to my criminal justice heart. I studied the subject at a Liverpool UK university from 2016-2017. It changed me forever — though it took a while for it to show.
11 slides | 24 slides (respectively)
secrecy.plus | secrecy.plus/law | crime hunch | citizen hunch
Can’t, simply can’t, get the synchronous metaverse to improve our meeting experiences? Then why not re-engineer it all? Asynchronicity rules!
9 slides
never meet again | never meet again: lgog
The above was delivered in conjunction with an AI engineer who may return and work with me in the future, alongside my eldest son — and for a brief few times also a friend from Liverpool UK.
16 slides
A more recent project: delivering a Natural Justice
This project focusses on replacing Criminal Justice systems with Natural Justice systems.
Criminal Justice approaches attempt to deliver justice by stopping crime: and mainly only, hardly ever proactively in themselves, in those areas where citizens end up doing wrong.
The idea behind a Natural Justice approach, therefore, is to expand our vision of what such systems should occupy themselves with, in order that we not only recodify law in the process but also forge new cultures across all human endeavours and sectors: for good or perhaps occasional ill.
12 slides
Imagine we could create a system where no professional — more widely, no citizen in any professional or personal context — ever felt any pressure on them to bend, or break, the rules … ever.
12 slides
legalallways.com – secrecy.plus/law
I spent Christmas 2022 in Sweden. I fell in love with lagom immediately: not too much, not too little.
Not costly pragmatism which leads to cutting corners that need paying for afterwards, when we realise what we didn’t do had such an unseemly impact on the longer-term.
No. Not that. A different approach.
Last year, a country of around 10 million people — Sweden — was third in the world for innovation as measured empirically via number of patents and so forth.
Third, after Switzerland and the US.
And yet no puffing up these achievements. And not a “getting along with it” in boring and even stultifying manner. The Swedish I met are utterly joyful in joint company. Joyful people who laugh all the time. But equally, purposefully so.
And when they reach the age of 50, it’s half a life for them: maybe like the rest of us, too, in a way. But not downhill from that point on. Because they already practise a kind of “natural justice” in a society and state which judges that old age is actually really really cool.
And so it was Sweden where I discovered that me, at 60 … well, I am the coolest I’ve ever been.
This is why I’d like Sweden to tell the rest of us how fab this can be, why it needs to be like this in more places, and why it would be good if the rest of us could open our minds and souls in order to listen to what this wondrous community of just over 10 million may tell the rest of us about being truly humane: that is, also, duly human.
16 slides + the following two presentations added in (so a total of 44 slides and three slide-decks in one)
A PhD-level draft proposal on how we can focus on deepening our understanding of the power of common sense in society’s organisation and long-term structuring and social engineering.
17 slides (mostly text-based)
Developing the previous presentation, I look to describe existent ways of seeing and describing the world around us which may facilitate the non-disruptive introduction of a Natural Justice system and approach that might one day — maybe sooner than we think — replace the age-old Criminal Justice manner of understanding society’s organisation.
I say non-disruptive when I think of the Swedish broadly embraced concept of lagom … but also with the example of when, from one day to the next, non-traumatically and non-dramatically, the whole country at one fell swoop changed from driving on the left to driving on the right.
That’s quite an example. The Swedish are, unfussily, quite a people. And if they choose not to blow their own trumpets too much … well, here I am to urge them a little more into doing so.
WDYT?
14 slides (mainly text-based)
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