aron
@aronshelton
Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder
aron
I wonder how many of the fears I hear about AI are really fears about ourselves as humans. How easy it is for people to replace others in the name of power and efficiency. To steal from others and call it innovation. To project love, belief and meaning onto the inanimate.
Ņ̨͈̯̻̪̥̥ͅick S̘͓͙usix.comIn the 2010s, supply chain innovation opened up lifestyle brands. In the 2020s, financial mechanism innovation is opening up the space for incentivized ideologies, networked publics, and co-owned faiths.
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
the legitimacy and accessibility of our future cities can’t be built by a monologue of exit discourse, because this leads to erasure (and the continuation) of historical resource discrepancies, power imbalances, and worlds ultimately built on fantasy. The challenge for DAOs today is to break this deadlock, embrace scaling, and find ways to start
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provocations and design
The fork on your plate isn’t inevitable—it’s propaganda. Its design has been polished by centuries of iteration, yes, but also by centuries of forgetting. We stopped asking why a fork looks the way it does because it became too familiar to question. It’s not a tool anymore; it’s a dogma.
But supernormal isn’t about inevitability. It’s about normalization. When something becomes so ubiquitous, so embedded in daily life, it disappears from view. That’s not just true for objects—it’s true for the systems we live by. Markets, money, time.
“The change before the change suggests that perhaps indescribability is, in itself, an evolutionary condition, a built-in extra budget of possibility for unfamiliar formations. I suspect it is, and this indescribability offers the challenge of how to communicate this unseen, submerged process. One is to accentuate the lateness of responding to
... See moreIn the end, one can see collective curation to be the path moving forward, and to go back to biblical prophecies mentioned prior, if biting from the “forbidden apple” made us Godlike, maybe the fault was in the individualistic approach to “an all encompassing being” -the internet has given us the opportunity to become enlightened communities, if we
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