Agalia Tan
- We say that the most powerful work operates through evoking visceral, emotional responses, yet we’ve been seemingly conditioned to believe that critiquing and evaluating is the professional necessary first step. But the fact is that we can’t truly feel an idea, we can’t truly live an idea if we’re standing on the outside and looking in being clever... See more
from The subtle art of stepping into an idea — Martin Weigel by Martin Weigel
- So how can we get people to accept a new idea? Show how it is a natural extension of the things they already believe.
from How Ideas Grow
- Some companies go all in on the ecstasy - ‘here’s our magical vision for the future’. Others commit to the laundry - look at our rich feature-set isn’t it amazing?”
from 2023 end of year letter by sublimeinternet.substack.com
when creating vector, i thought of...
this captures how I feel about vector, we still exist in that liminal space between ideation and creation. It’s exciting and frightening all at the same time and I take comfort in struggling to find the words because that means it’s something new!
- The question behind it was “how can anyone, whether they’re technical or not, create or cultivate their own database?” When I started doing independent research last year, that was one of the main questions that was swirling. It’s fundamental to a lot of the other explorations that I'm doing now, looking at how alternative forms of technology might... See more
from An Interview with Spencer Chang | Are.na Editorial
- There is no one “singular culture.” Personal perception is the other key variable here.
from Making Sense of Culture Amidst Contradiction by Matt Klein
dimensionalise, always
- Search engines — the window into the web for many people — top their results with pages containing thousands of words of auto-generated nothingness, perfectly optimized for search engine prominence and to pull in money via ads and affiliate links while simultaneously devoid of any useful information.
Social networks have become “the web” for many pe... See more - what if it really is “not that deep”?
from #180: Against Self-Analysis
things you should remember and the over-intellectualisation and overthinking of the self
- Great questions don't appear
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.from What You'll Wish You'd Known
- It’s research, but not in a traditional sense of research. It’s almost like a personal philosophy research or something. It’s how you form your opinions about a specific category of things. The terms I use most often are “textured” and “resonant” — I think when you see collections that have been cared for over many years and have a very specific vi... See more
from An Interview with Spencer Chang | Are.na Editorial
towards a human-centred internet and an ode to the rabbit hole diggers