Essays

The most interesting worlds are evolved, not engineered. What if we think of liveliness as being about creating space for abundant novelty and surprise? A world is most alive when it has enough open-endedness for unexpected behavior to emerge in a bottom-up, democratic manner. A lively world can be a complex system, composed of many elements that... See more

A farmers’ market on a busy weekend feels more lively to us than a virtual meeting hosted in Meta’s Horizon Workrooms