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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Instead of a holistic and intersectional approach, entrenched in the ability to tap into collective support structures as a form of personal resilience, healing is depoliticised and rendered a singular and individual trauma chronically dependent on a capitalist and extractivist commercialisation of Indigenous knowledge (Yoga, Ayahuasca, herbal... See more
Leil Zahra Mortada • Solidarity between catastrophic singularity and disastrous individualism — Against Catastrophe
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 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... See more
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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.”
An asset-based approach to teaching asks, “What ideas do these students have ?” rather than “What ideas do these students lack?”
Dan Meyer • Is Asset-Based AI Even Possible?
The direction language models indeed prompt you to follow (pun intended) often leads you somewhere boring — to the land of averages
