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Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder
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Part of the magic of an actual book is that the reader ends up understanding. It seeps in, the aha’s are found, not highlighted.
Seth Godin • The Cliffs Notes paradox
A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted.
Anil Seth outlines 5 dimensions of self in his book “Being You”:
- The Social Self : How we exist in relation to others, including our roles, status, and group identities
- The Narrative Self : The ongoing story we tell about who we are and where we're going
- The Perspectival Self : Our immediate experience of being somewhere, seeing from a particular
I Contain Multitudes - Self as Multiplicity
There Is No “Artificial” Intelligence: A Conversation with the Initiative for Indigenous Futures
Gabriella Garciaitp.nyu.eduLike physics, futures studies are also intrinsically embracing uncertainty as it is emphatically underlined by Amara’s three laws of futures (Amara, 1981): (1) the future is not predetermined, (2) the future is not predictable, and (3) the future outcomes can be influenced by our choices in the present. […]
Patrick Tanguay • Expanding the Futures Cone’s Concept of the Futures and the Pasts ⊗ Reading as Counter-Practice ⊗ A Bot that Watched 70,000 Hours of Minecraft Videos
By handing the reins of discovery to the wisdom of instinct and following the path of maximal interestingness, we can find the kinds of unexpected discoveries that yield compression progress. This, though is the paradox of creativity: your work is done when it looks so simple that the consumer thinks they could’ve done it, which means they won’t appreciate how hard you worked.
We belong to times far more than we belong to places. We just don’t realize it because we can’t travel in time and can never see our time from the perspective of another. - vgr
