aiming for resonance
A meaningful idea might be building a community because you genuinely can’t imagine doing anything else, or telling a story because it’s all you can think about. Not because others have or expect you to. And certainly not because it looks good online. Meaningful ideas reflect what we can’t help but care about, not fantasies of who we could be.
In Defense of Thinking Small
There are so many things that need to be done – don’t pick something that makes you miserable! It’s imperative to avoid burnout, so choose what enlivens and energises you. Take climate change seriously, but don’t take yourself too seriously. The work can and should be gratifying and punctuated with joy.
Dense Discovery • 315 / Designing Out Recklessness
Big lesson I learned last year: If I'm attached to the outcome, I'm not coming from enoughness. I'm hoping that the outcome will make me enough. I know I'm coming from enoughness when I'm doing what brings me joy and I'm able to surrender to whatever wants to unfold as a result.
David Spinkssubstack.comQuantitative indicators — faulty proxies for qualitative truths — are our primary measure of success, and considerations of life beyond our own have, until now, been largely absent from our day-to-day decision making. What magic might unfold if we just adjust our aperture? And what’s at risk if we don’t?
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
I felt like there was still a lot of room to create a consulting practice that was not just a coldblooded commercial thing, but had an intellectual curiosity to it, and that produced reports that were relevant to a general public, not just to clients. To use consulting as an information-seeking and research process, but not necessarily an art
... See moreNew York • An Interview With Emily Segal
In a dialogue with fellow scholars Thijs Lijster and Robin Celikates, Rosa imagines resonance as a descendant of Emile Durkheim’s notion of “collective effervescence,” the ecstasy shared by participants in music, sports, dancing, or spirituality. Rosa believes that attuning ourselves to this intense feeling of invigorating camaraderie is a... See more
🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
What interests him is the exhibition as ritual. "A crowd of people is not a crowd but rather a number of individuals gathered in a space who are, contra the experience of an opera or a theatrical performance, not subject to a collective control of attention....Attention is neither monopolized nor homogenized. The exhibition is a very democratic and
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I understand the argument for shipping early and often. But I also believe that we should aspire to build lovable products, not viable products. And lovable products take time to build and polish.
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
GDP sees Wikipedia as possibly having a negative value. If there wasn’t Wikipedia people would still buy encyclopedias. And all those volunteer Wikipedia editors could do something really valuable with their time, like work for money.