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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From reading over 100 business books and running a startup for over a year, here's a 2-word summary of communication that might save you years of reading: Contrast, Potential.
Chris Lengerich • Communication
A mentor who doesn’t frequently say 'I don’t know' needs to be replaced.
Paul Venuto • feed updates
Great advice for the importance of experiencing things in the world as the root of becoming a better creative.
Template for helping onboard new team members. Helps discussing working conditions and culture.
I think it is more helpful to talk about the underlying processes: spontaneous thought, or the decoupling of attention from perception, which is what happens when our thoughts separate from our perception of the environment. Both these processes take place during mind-wandering and daydreaming.
Tim Vernimmen • The science of a wandering mind
The direction language models indeed prompt you to follow (pun intended) often leads you somewhere boring — to the land of averages
Alberto Romero • You Are Killing Your Greatest Ideas
Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
youtube.comImpactful Communication Frameworks
The classic and hilarious description of all storytelling structures
Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.... See more
David Foster Wallace,