Given the coercive and unquestioned nature of current AI adoption, this is a good moment to know what you stand for in relation to communications technology. We saw how not thinking too much about handing our lives over to social media turned out.

Here is my point of view as a communications professional. It’s been formed by a lot of years in the industry, not all of them invested in the big picture but going forward, that will change.

**I believe that communications professionals: **

• Should understand why and how technology impacts humans and the environment
• Should have a point of view on the goals communications technology should serve

**My point of view: **

• I believe that communications technology should center accuracy, provenance, human and environmental welfare.
• As a communications professional, I should understand whether, why and how it does, and design and advocate for it to align with this value.

Any work I do will be centered in this POV. I think it would be negligent to do less.

Bin books are gadgets and as such must be lashed to your corporeal being ready to receive the infinite scroll of your senseless thoughts in written form. And so, attach it to yourself. Tape a safety pin on it, stab a keyring through the duct tape binding. Whatever works.

When you are in the company of distasteful people be like Harriet the Spy and write something unfiltered and disparaging on one of the bin book’s grocery bag pages. Because offline, no one can hear you think.

Basically, you take some leftover paper nonsense, and make it into a book. I recommend that it be around the size of a cigarette pack. What you’re going to do with it is this: tape junk into it, write inscrutable things, tack on useless accessories like strings and paper clips. It’s a field journal of Actual Reality which is a long non sequitur of half baked observations and gum wrappers that no one but you is really aware of.

Once you’ve taped enough band aid wrappers to your bin book, filled it with enough senseless thought fragments, it will take on a shine like sea glass from the churning surf of your aimless additions. You will need to know where it is at all times.

That’s how it works.