curiosity
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
🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
the best gardens have many doors, and few locks.
In John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, Berger describes the relation between what we see and what we know, more precisely arguing that what we know impacts what we see (and vice versa). Talking about the ubiquitous abundance of images and their increasingly ephemeral, insubstantial, and available meaning, he says, “If the new language of images were used
... See moreIda Josefiina • What We See and What We Know
Knowledge responds to the gravitational pull of questions: new questions, and new questions about old questions.
Sindhu Shivaprasad • Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity
The job of an internet creator (a real maker, not just a two year flash in the pan) is to be the maximum amount of curious possible. My task is to be crazy interested in the world around me and report back to all of you what I find. It's the best gig in the world (for me) 😊
Evan Armstrong 📧x.com‘The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.’ […]
Thomas Klaffke • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #98
Alexander von Humboldt and the Invention of Nature: How One of the Last True Polymaths Pioneered the Cosmos of Connections
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