building a better garden
ore often than not, the digital gardens of today are botanic—privately owned online spaces made for visitors to fawn over while a “do not touch” sign looms in view. These private gardens are generative for our personal learning, but they are far from the communal gardens I grew up in that valued collective work and knowledge. Where are the digital
... See moreAnnika Hansteen-Izora • On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
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.
Programmable attention
honestly 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??
Liked Tweetstwitter.comCayce Pollard as the positive archetype for how to navigate volatility. So by intensely tuning oneself in to subjective responses to things, you can cut through huge amounts of noise and volatility. Even though I couldn’t admit that that’s what I was doing in a lot of trend forecasting settings, that is really what my experience of it was. People
... See moreNew York • An Interview With Emily Segal
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.
Imagination – that ‘ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise’ – needs diversity to feed it.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
“nodal points,” the idea that important people, places, ideas, references etc. have shaped the direction of my life and how I see myself
New York • An Interview With Emily Segal
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 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