Ged Carroll http://renaissancechambara.jp/ (renaissance chambara since 2003) Sun, 23 Aug 2026 11:42:08 +0000 en hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/renaissancechambara.jp/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-50120958447_36f6157f2e_c.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Ged Carroll http://renaissancechambara.jp/ 32 32 2026 media diary http://renaissancechambara.jp/2026/08/17/2026-media-diary/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:42:50 +0000 https://renaissancechambara.jp/?p=74502 The 2026 media diary post is an update and a reflection on past posts that I have written in the same vein. The first one was inspired by a request that Stephen Waddington put out in 2015. I wrote the next iteration during CoVID. I was working from home in a role where it was […]

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]]> William Gibson + more things http://renaissancechambara.jp/2026/08/13/william_gibson_more-things/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:38:59 +0000 https://renaissancechambara.jp/?p=74447 William Gibson I have been thinking a lot about William Gibson recently. Judging by my social feeds, the Neo Tokyo aesthetic has saturated mainstream culture (from 90s anime clips, tech wear, creator built cyber decks and Hong Kong at night) and our Silicon Valley elites sound more like Wintermute at every turn. The K-shaped economy […]

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]]> July 2026 – the three dozen edition http://renaissancechambara.jp/2026/07/29/july-2026/ Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:48:59 +0000 https://renaissancechambara.jp/?p=74310 July 2026 introduction – (36)  Welcome to the 36th edition of my newsletter or as a bingo caller would say ‘three dozen’. And yes that’s the most uninspired yet functional bingo lingo I’ve come across on this journey so far. 36 seemed strangely appropriate as that was the temperature inside my house on the celsius […]

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]]> Jensen Huang + more stuff http://renaissancechambara.jp/2026/07/26/jensen-huang-more-stuff/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:22:00 +0000 https://renaissancechambara.jp/?p=74436 Great interview with Jensen Huang Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia was interviewed by Axios. In the wide ranging interview he is advocating for open LLM models. He thinks that the benefits of closed models ties in with the benefits of scale and convenience from cloud computing infrastructure. Jensen Huang also talks about […]

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]]> Consumer grievance: a marketers atlas http://renaissancechambara.jp/2026/07/18/consumer-grievance-a-marketers-atlas-robert-reich-edelman-trust-barometer/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:11:31 +0000 https://renaissancechambara.jp/?p=73685 Writing about consumer grievance came from a couple of things. I was watching a lecture by professor Robert Reich at Stanford and it reminded me of Edelman‘s 2025 Trust Barometer report ‘Trust and the Crisis of Grievance‘. Edelman’s annual report is a barometer, a global snapshot of who and what consumers trust. As long as […]

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