Andrew McCluskey
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Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
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“the idea that we need to overcome failings of humanness by becoming objective, every thing created fairly, equally... It’s getting rid of passion, of all the things we’re told are primitive and it scares me.”
Terry Gilliam
Are we focusing on the wrong thing?
Some of the fantasies in Want are moving - the bereaved woman who craves touch and mourns the secondary loss of sexual relations. “I do wish there were more discussion of grief and spouse loss and sexuality,” she writes.
Gillian Anderson • Gillian Anderson on her book about sexual fantasies
Time for us is not infinite, but it’s also not in short supply.
Time is Not Running Out - Cole's Blog
How to find the right mental models for your audience
blog.weareopen.coop
Authentic Mexican Chicken Fajitas (Fajitas De Pollo) – The Bossy Kitchen
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The Wundt curve shows that overly simple and predictable stimuli provide only neutral hedonic value. Positive hedonic value requires stimuli that are somewhat novel/complex/ambiguous. Too much novelty or complexity, however, leads to negative hedonic value. There is, then, a “sweet spot” for the right amount of stimulus novelty/complexity: slightly... See more
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
the holy grail for recommendation systems