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Boat Stories
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A story is our only boat, to sail on the river of time.
(Ursula K. Le Guin)
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That’s perhaps the way out — keep trying to tell stories beyond ark-scale until one succeeds in expanding your horizons again. But until such narrative traction returns, we’ll have to make do with ark head.
Venkatesh Rao • Ark Head
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Your success here will depend entirely on how successfully you can tell stories, and how successfully other people can repeat those stories, both to themselves and others.Your North Star here has to be: are other people retelling this story successfully?Port cities around the world are more similar to each other than they are to their inland counte... See more
Alex Danco • World Building
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One mental model for this condition is what I call ark head, as in Noah’s Ark. We’ve given up on the prospect of actually solving or managing most of the snowballing global problems and crises we’re hurtling towards. Or even meaningfully comprehending the gestalt. We’ve accepted that some large fraction of those problems will go unsolved and unmana... See more
Venkatesh Rao • Ark Head
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The Pathless Path captures the idea that in the 21st century, everyone has to think like an artist. In a more stable world, people could conform to traditional life arcs. There were the few, the self-selected, who lived an artistic life: a quest into the unknown guided by self-discovery. Now, because of the shifting landscape, more and more people
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