aron
@aronshelton
Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder
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We often assume that the world of today would stun a visitor from fifty years ago. In truth, for every miraculous iPad there are countless partly broken realities: WiFi passwords, connectivity, battery life, privacy and compatibility amongst others. The real skill of creating a compelling and engaging view of the future lies not in designing the... See more
Nick Foster • The Future Mundane - Core77
to make the thing is to make its impact, its memory, the product of its extended use, its legacy, and its language. "Good Design", such that it might exist, is the art of building this phantom value in the future from the most minimal physical compromise in the present.
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The new technologist believes in the power of good critique. It is not hostile to interrogate each other’s ideas, products, or goals.
What made the trilogy so stunning and atypical as a sci-fi story was the fact that Liu wasn’t interested in interrogating whether humans deserved to survive. Instead, the novels explored the danger of connection, of the way a thought, once shared, can expand into an unstoppable force—a radical, terrifying ideology or a shrewd solution to a... See more
As Anaïs Nin wrote, “When we go deeply into the personal, we go beyond the personal. We achieve something that is collective.”
Suleika Jaouad • The Book of Alchemy
Wild Hope: Indy Johar Keynote
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Mutually-assured thriving
Curation can be many things:
Curation is the creation of contextualized experiences.
Curation is expression.
Curation is storytelling.
Curation is educational.
Curation is perspective.
Curation is subjective.
As it should... See more
athena یاسtwitter.comPart 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
Love this from Yancey Strickler:
An artist is a self-employed self-expressor.
A creator is a self-employed commercial expressor.