Alex Dobrenko

The Curta calculator patents are amazing!

People can do whatever they prefer with their personal websites, but when I stumble on someone who's clearly writing as a way to make some money, I become suspicious about the nature of what I'm reading. It usually ruins the experience.

It's a matter of perception and transparency though. For example, I feel like the model used by Jason Kottke, or... See more

If you can sustain your interest in what you're doing, you're an extremely fortunate person. ... And you can't lose your capacity for astonishment. It's a great loss. Because the world is a very astonishing place. The great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibliity for learning never disappears, we basically have to admit you're never... See more

1. Pre-modern information environments were locally shared common worlds mediated chiefly by our embodied experience.


2. Modernity offered instead a de-situated public sphere built on a shared institutional and expert knowledge mediated by print and mass media.


3. What we are now living through is the collapse of the modern arrangement and the emergence of

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Hyperlink is attempting to build tools for a new kind of project management!

Think about projects that feel like adventures. Projects where you discover what you're making as you go. Projects that evolve and even generate new projects along the way. Projects that feel like play.

We want to support creative project-making based in emergent discovery,... See more

This is because a work of art is understood not by the mind only, but by the emotions and by the body itself.