aron
@aronshelton
Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder
aron
If you want to be read in the future, make sure you would have been read in the past. We have no idea of what’s in the future, but we have some knowledge of what was in the past. So I make sure I would have been read both in the past and in the present time, that is by both the comtemporaries and the dead. So I speculated that books that would have been relevant twenty years in the past (conditional of course of being relevant today) would be interesting twenty years in the future.
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.
As time passes, Web3 curation will provide a wealth of social context to the Internet ’s most prized assets. We have not even contemplated what the Web3 Curation economy will look like. Open access to data, community-based economies and clear incentives will enable the emergence of new kinds of social experiences online. Creators and curators will... See more
Lawson Baker • The Actual* Web3 Curation Landscape
Home - Warm Cookies of the Revolution
warmcookiesoftherevolution.org
Warm Cookies of the Revolution, needn’t say more.
Hyperstition is a positive feedback circuit including culture as a component. It can be defined as the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies. Superstitions are merely false beliefs, but hyperstitions — by their very existence as ideas — function causally to bring about their own reality.
Cultivating Hyperstitions
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.
Episode #189 - Transcript — Philosophize This!
philosophizethis.orgwe USED to have communities without communication. NOWADAYS we have communication without community.
“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
In order to imagine where the future is headed, let’s first lay out the three main steps of connection building to examine how the physical and digital worlds fare at each:
- Discovery : you find someone you want to meet, or that person finds you
- Connection : some initial contact is established
- Connection strengthening : further interactions