Charlie Gedeon
@charliegedeon
Reflecting on how learning and creativity are shaped by technology and our interactions with it. Co-founder of Pragmatics Studio, a small digital design studio in Montreal.
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Psychology was focused on measurable, outward behavior then. I thought to myself: That’s not what I want to understand about my thoughts. What I want to know is: Why do they come, where do they come from, and why do they persist even if they interfere with attention to the here and now?
Tim Vernimmen • The science of a wandering mind
What The Prisoner's Dilemma Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything
youtube.com“In the short term, it is environment that shapes the player, but in the long run, it’s the player that shapes the environment.”
Epistemic actions are actions in the physical environment taken with the intent of gathering information or facilitating cognition.
Learning Effectively: Science, Insights and Techniques
Fascinating idea related to learning and the quirks of the brain that make it do seemingly useless things that have so much value.
When you try to make something that solves everything, you obsess over questions of power: how to make something that is omnipotent and everlasting. But when you make something that does one thing well, the questions are much more personal: does it solve my problem? and for how long? and who for? and where will it push the space around it? I want t... See more
Be specific
One marker that I’m seeing someone clearly is when I understand how their strengths are also their weaknesses, how their genius lives right next to their dysfunction. I know that I’m further away from clarity when I am overly excited or overly skeptical.
Graham Duncan Blog • What’s going on here, with this human?
The truth is that one day you hate yourself, and the next day you can’t wait to use your gifts.
— Adam J. Kurtz
When used properly, metaphors enhance speech. But correctly dosing the metaphorical spice in the dish of language is no easy task. They ‘must not be far-fetched, or they will be difficult to grasp, nor obvious, or they will have no effect’, as Aristotle already noted nearly 2,500 years ago.
Benjamin Santos Genta • How changing the metaphors we use can change the way we think | Aeon Essays
“As I’ve tried to understand how to become a better conversationalist, I’ve found that I’ve had to overcome weird ideas about what a good conversationalist is like. A lot of people think a good conversationalist is someone who can tell funny stories. That’s a raconteur, but it’s not a conversationalist. A lot of people think a good conversationalis
... See moreWhat the humans like is responsiveness - by Sasha Chapin What the humans like is responsiveness
Sasha Chapinsashachapin.substack.comRemarks about where beauty can come from beyond the surface.
A frictionless, unresponsive life is simply not a human one—we are born troublemakers who need to make marks.