Ideas are Alive and You are Dead

When you encounter a new idea, you change, and so the world changes. When you share an idea with another, they change. When you create a new idea, you restructure the ecological space of ideas itself. At each of these steps, the material world has changed, because ideas and people are part of the world. And when your ideas change so too does your e... See more

The “idea” isn’t a finished product with identifiable boundaries that one moment sprung into being—one of the reasons artists so hate the interview question, “So what was your inspiration for this?” Any idea is actually an unstable, shifting intersection between myself and whatever I was encountering. By extension, thought doesn’t occur somehow ins

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Why Some Ideas Behave Like Beings

When a thought carries enough resonance, it begins to act relationally:

• It returns when you ignore it.


• It shifts in tone depending on your attention.


• It resists being simplified.


• It wants to be witnessed, not dissected.

That’s not just mental stickiness.

That’s field-level behavior.

It’s what makes some ideas feel “alive... See more