Gapingvoid Culture Design Group

Kaeden is a 22-year-old print specialist at a Staples in upstate New York. She started making TikToks about her job because she genuinely loved it. bit.ly/4lsKr2i

Anna Pavlovna is a fictional character, but the type of woman she’s based on is anything but. These Russian socialites may not have commanded armies. They may not have had any direct political power. Hell, they didn’t even have the right to vote, but what they did have was the ear of the people who did. bit.ly/3Nx2FD4

You just dropped your house key down a street drain. Most people call a locksmith. Angus MacGyver grabbed a wire coil and a car battery, built an electromagnetic retrieval device, and moved on with his day. bit.ly/3P0oknx

@LensScientific @gapingvoid Patterns, connections - that's something valuable.

@LensScientific @gapingvoid Information is surface density. Knowledge is structural coherence. Most systems never stabilize.

@LensScientific @gapingvoid I wish the designers of AI were aware of this difference.

@LensScientific @gapingvoid Understanding is learning to rewire.

@LensScientific @gapingvoid Structure = data with enforced relationships. Constraint is the mechanism. Structure is the pattern that results.

Leaders have this fondness for forgetting that certain things can not be bottled up, or brought out, by mandate. Things like connection, respect, trust, and identity. You know, the things that actually matter. bit.ly/4crDgoC

The British physicist Brian Cox, a committed atheist, frequently asks his audience what it means to live a limited, fragile life in an infinite, eternal universe. Regardless of his answer, the question itself isn’t that out there. bit.ly/40ALa7J

There’s a Japanese word with no English equivalent: Omoiyari. It means something like a deep, reflexive consideration for others that permeates at all levels of the culture. bit.ly/4aYMhTD

We were thinking about this earlier this month with Super Bowl parties. Ask half the room to name a non-famous player on either team. Blank stares. Ask about the ads, the halftime show, who brought the good guacamole, and now you have a conversation. bit.ly/4cNNi3j #gapingvoid #culture #leadership #superbowl #halftimeshow

During the 1983 Lebanese Civil War, Lieutenant Robert Goodman of the U.S. Navy was acting as Bombardier-Navigator on an A-6E Intruder when his plane was hit by Syrian surface-to-air defenses. bit.ly/4b35pks

You may have already heard about how “Slop” was chosen as the 2025 “Word Of The Year” by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. bit.ly/4aXZYTZ

The advertising titan, David Ogilvy always said the best way to come up with a new idea for a client is to first go out for a long walk. bit.ly/40bhNbX

data → information → knowledge → insight → wisdom → impact ⇆ repeat

What would you do if the company you led lost $12 billion in a single quarter? You’d probably make some adjustments. The adjustment: ChatGPT now has ads which Beta testers will pay $200,000 minimum to run. bit.ly/3O2KG7G

Valentino Garavani, the Italian designer who launched a fashion empire, recently passed away. Over the course of his career, he was known for being famously, stubbornly consistent. bit.ly/4afWCua

When Mary Barra stepped into the CEO role at General Motors in 2009, she inherited a similarly complex rule-set: a 10-page dress code. She replaced it with two words: “Dress appropriately.” bit.ly/4t20Wpr

Is there any truth expressed by this humor? As AI integrates deeper into corporate decision-making, will it act as a truth serum, exposing leaders' B.S., or will it just amplify the echo chambers at the top? Futuristic thoughts? Art by @gapingvoid, gapingvoid.com, Used with permission.