Andrei Stoica
- I must pause to say a word about my statement "There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are." I first wrote the sentence some years ago and it has been widely quoted. One day I was looking through a mail order gift catalogue and it included some small ornamental bronze plaques with brief sayings on the... See more
from Personal Renewal
- In this new book, Han describes the deleterious effects of that degeneration on storytelling. Storytelling used to bind us communally over the campfire; it connected us to our pasts and helped us imagine hopeful futures. The digital screen has replaced that fire, making us individuals performing factitious versions of ourselves to unseen peers, tai... See more
from The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han Review – How Big Tech Altered the Narrative by Stuart Jeffries
David Foster Wallace's critique of Tracy Austin's memoir "Beyond Center Court: My Story," highlighting its insipidity and lack of authenticity.
- Whereas philosophers, psychologists, and the like search for models of human cognition and behavior, the field of artificial intelligence aims to take such models and turn them into useful tools in reality. As the salience of vibes as a way of (not) explaining experience has grown, so too have the applications of machine learning and neural network... See more
from Nameless Feeling — Real Life
- Solitarist identity is an example of dichotomous or binary thinking, one of the cognitive distortions that are evidently becoming more common, at least among young adults in the United States, according to George Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s analysis in “The Coddling of the American Mind.” Psychologists studying binary thinking have also found it... See more
from Finding Heroes In A Messy Digital World | NOEMA by Tim Gorichanaz
- I said in my book, "Self-Renewal," that we build our own prisons and serve as our own jail-keepers. I no longer completely agree with that. I still think we're our own jailkeepers, but I've concluded that our parents and the society at large have a hand in building our prisons. They create roles for us -- and self images -- that hold us captive for... See more
from Personal Renewal
- All people are flawed, a mix of good and bad, but we tend to see others as only one thing. The philosopher Amartya Sen calls this a “solitarist” approach to identity. And as we are biased toward negativity — a bad apple spoils the bunch — we are thrown off by a person’s bad character traits or past actions. Even minor ones. We identify people by th... See more
from Finding Heroes In A Messy Digital World | NOEMA by Tim Gorichanaz
- Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast is discontinuous, slow is continuous. Fast and small instructs slow and big by accrued innovation and by occasional revolution. Slow and big controls small and fast by constraint and constancy. Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.
from Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning by Stewart Brand
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- I have been inadvertenly gathering people and putting on community events for about fifteen years. I say “inadvertently” because I've never sat down and thought “I want to be a community organiser.” What happens is I have a craving for certain kinds of experiences.
from Gathering Structures