Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Nerd
Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
Model 777 — Luca Iaconi-Stewart
lucaiaconistewart.com
Nerdy shit for nerdy people and design
This is beyond. I don’t even understand.
A writing example: when I look back in my notes I realize so much of what I write about today I was ruminating about 2-3 years ago. I always knew what I was going to say. I just didn’t have the tools, I didn’t have the maturity, I didn’t have the language or sensitivity to beauty to recognize what that was. So much of what I learned was latent,... See more
Nix • things that take time
Web Ex Point Oh and Human Stuff
I continue to find amazing things on Bear like this.
Bear’s Discovery Feed > Hacker News
To test an idea, you must build it. You can’t rely on the abstract – you have to bring it into the world to play with it feel it and only then can you judge whether it’s worth pursuing or not
Christa Nicholson • The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
Personality testing is a booming business; inevitably, there's a business to build on top of the results. Classifying things, or in this case, people is a step in a series that ultimately leads to the creation of personalized products, services, supplements, etc., based on determined personality.
I'll cop to taking several of them over the years. I find that Enneagram feels the most accurate, though not without some things that are simply inaccurate.
For fifteen years we have been building, at planetary scale, a machinery of disattention: social platforms that auction attention by the millisecond; search engines that outsource memory; feeds that weaponize emotion for engagement. The result is an economy that grows in inverse proportion to our capacity to think. Now the data have arrived like a... See more
Under 40's Declining Memory
The 1000 word Save Wisdom Questions. – SaveWisdom.org
savewisdom.org
You and I are gonna live forever
I’ve been recording answers to these questions as I have time (or make time), but it’s been a while. I’ve probably shared this link with more people, especially parents, than any other link. I love the idea behind it, but think of it a little different – maybe more selfishly.
