Opinion | A Legendary World Builder on Multiverses, Revolution and the ‘Souls’ of Cities
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Opinion | A Legendary World Builder on Multiverses, Revolution and the ‘Souls’ of Cities
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... See more
Welcome to Dancoland • World Building
The story of humanity is an urban one, a slow 20,000 year drift towards a largely urban condition. A city does the same thing to individualism that a natural ecosystem does to a tree — thriving there is about living well with people who are not like you. Just as a tree revels in those multifarious interdependencies, so we do with cities.
Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism
Is the cosmic compulsion for disorder matched by an equally powerful compulsion for order, structure, and organization?
Mitchell Waldrop • Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
"Systems are highly sensitive to fluctuations. This leads both to hope and a threat: hope, since even small fluctuations may grow and change the overall structure. As a result, individual activity is not doomed to insignificance.
On the other hand, this is also a threat, since in our universe the security of stable, permanent rules seems gone
... See more‘if density and diversity give life, the life they breed is disorderly.’