building a better garden
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... See more
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the best gardens have many doors, and few locks.
Digital gardens are not about creating utopias. Rather, they design towards the small and slow progress of protopias, as defined by futurist Kevin Kelly as “a state that is better today than yesterday.” We need protopias, alternatives, and the seeds of gardens. We need space to dream, and for that dreaming to connect to concrete action.
Annika Hansteen-Izora • On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
it's the totality of those “nodal points” that indicate one’s own unique perspective. It doesn’t matter if you specifically sought out the nodal point or not, it’s the recognition that counts. When you encounter a piece of life-changing information (no matter how large the change part is), you are simultaneously discovering and creating “yourself,”
... See moreare.na • On Motivation
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[.]
Henrik Karlsson • Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
unspeakable labor = unacknowledged time
The edge is in the inputs.
The person who consumes from better sources, gets better thoughts.
The person who asks better questions, gets better answers.
The person who builds better habits, gets better results.
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James Cleartwitter.comhonestly i'm so good at consuming content LMAO. like how do I make it my job to literally just read, watch, and listen to stuff??
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We all live one-of-a-kind lives with a unique set of experiences, and therefore the way we interact with the world is always somewhat different. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a vast amount of overlap, and I think it is exactly this dichotomy that makes life so wonderful. When we expose more of the web (the connections, associations, and
... See moreIda Josefiina • What We See and What We Know
Imagination – that ‘ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise’ – needs diversity to feed it.