building a better garden
by Keely Adler · updated 3mo ago
building a better garden
There’s something deeply compelling to me about the idea that research—in some form—can be done by anyone with a serious commitment to intellectual inquiry.
from Research as Leisure Activity by Celine Nguyen
Keely Adler added 3mo ago
- Books you read are sending you input. Your friends modeling behaviors for you. Newspapers. Tools. People you follow on Twitter. The architecture of a Gothic church beaming serenity into you—that is input too.
At the same time, you are also sending output to other nodes. Now, I am sending these ideas into my pocket notebook, which will send them to m... See morefrom First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us by Henrik Karlsson
Keely Adler added 3mo ago
- Interestingly, echo chambers also come with benefits, not only for their “residents,” but also for society at large. In fact, they might be essential as markers—and makers—of shared identity and values, places of belonging and comfort. Isn’t any community, by definition, an echo chamber? The House of Beautiful Business certainly is. We have no illu... See more
from 🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
the best gardens have many doors, and few locks.
- When you choose whom to follow on Twitter, you’re choosing what types of mindsets and aesthetics to expose yourself to on a regular basis. You’re choosing what types of conversations to have. You’re choosing to be reminded regularly of certain things, and not of others. This is a kind of Programmable attention.
from Programmable attention
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
- The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play.
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
How do we spot ‘glimmers’ of the futures we all dream of? What forms of knowledge, and whose voices do we need to be attuned to, to ensure we are seeing these possibilities for what they are?
from Emerging Futures: An Update by JRF
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
- It is as if there existed, for what seems like millennia, tracing back to the very origins of mathematics and of other arts and sciences, a sort of “conspiracy of silence” surrounding [the] “unspeakable labors” which precede the birth of each new idea, both big and small[.]
from Cultivating a State of Mind Where New Ideas Are Born
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
Imagination – that ‘ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise’ – needs diversity to feed it.
from From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want by Rob Hopkins
Keely Adler added 4mo ago
Not just reading more, but whom I read and how I read. Including authors in reading lists can be a mere “[indication] of engagement, but as such that ‘engagement’ can be a very superficial one, one which acknowledges the existence of a body of work through name-checking, but which fails to attend to, disseminate, reinforce, or critique the detail o
... See morefrom #Collabrary: A Methodological Experiment for Reading With Reciprocity by Max Liboiron
Keely Adler added 4mo ago