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Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder

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“Imagination is often referred to as a sort of solo activity — authors, artists — but what we’ve found is really key to creativity is that it’s a collective imagination process. It’s the magic of creating together.”

Phoebe Tickell • Cultivating Everyday Imagination

Do ideas really occur in chains, or is the lineal structure imposed on them by scholars and philosophers? How is the world of logic, which eschews “circular argument” related to a world in which circular trains of causation are the rule rather than the expectation? (G. Bateson, 2002, p.18)

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A History of Taste: Taste and Morality

Ruby Justice Thelot taste101.substack.com

Taste Community and why curation...

Our situation resembles that of 18th century England. At the eve of a new Industrial Revolution, inundated by foreign products, lacking the central authority of an Elite to dictate and inspire mimesis, we are left wandering in endless store aisles and webpages, wondering how to properly consume.

A protocol is a relatively simple and codified set of behaviors that, when adopted by a sufficient number of participants (human and/or artificial) in a situation, reliably leads to good-enough outcomes for all.

Venkatesh Rao • The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols

Edison did not look for problems in need of solutions; he looked for solutions in need of modification.

provocations

Taste is about preference. When someone has "good taste" they have well-refined preferences. Taste sounds like a snotty term that a sommelier uses, but we all have tastes, even if we're not talking about taste in full-bodied reds from Northern Italy. We have taste in music, taste in design, and taste in literature (even if your literature is banger... See more

Samantha Marin • Metalabels will be the tastemakers of the internet

DAOs could out-compete by out-cooperating the modern firm.

gnosisguild.mirror.xyz • A Prehistory of DAOs

Capturable curiosity emerges when there is a mix of immediate relevance (the search is about something directly impacting the searcher) and civic engagement opportunities (beyond immediate needs like renewing a driver’s license). But not all searches are capturable.

Capturable Curiosity for Civic Engagement

Civic Engagement

In the new cultural economy, the culture is the product. It is composed of practices, ideas, and discourses. Products are auxiliary, supportive, but not the main event. And most importantly, people now opt into these designed cultures with full knowledge and awareness that these cultures might change who they are. The authenticity-driven culture