innovation culture
by Andrei Stoica · updated 1d ago
innovation culture
- The historian and biographer extends this backwards in time. Now youth find models of honor not only among the living but among dead. To study the great men of a community’s past is to study what greatness means in that community. That I think is half the purpose of these biographies of Roosevelt and Rockefeller, Feynman and Oppenheimer, Licklider ... See more
from The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite by T. Greer
Andrei Stoica added 1d ago
relates to other quote from earlier in the blog
- Here is how Plutarch, classical biographer par excellence, described his attraction to the stories of great men:
We may say, then, that achievements of this kind, which do not arouse the spirit of emulation or create any passionate desire to imitate them, are of no great benefit to the spectator. On the other hand virtue in action immediately takes
... See morefrom The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite by T. Greer
Andrei Stoica added 1d ago
- This silicon union of intellect and action creates a culture fond of big ideas. The expectation that anyone sufficiently intelligent can grasp, and perhaps master, any conceivable subject incentivizes technologists to become conversant in as many subjects as possible. The technologist is thus attracted to general, sweeping ideas with application ac... See more
from The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite by T. Greer
Andrei Stoica added 1d ago
- Yes, there can be taste in technology. But the problem is that the majority of practitioners are not consciously trying to extend nor synthesize towards improving quality of life.
Instead we are stuck in the darkest loop of identity confirmation derivatives, in order to extract and accumulate professional status for ourselves.
Taste in technology i... See morefrom Product Lost by @hipcityreg | Reggie James | Substack by Reggie James
Andrei Stoica added 2d ago
- Taste is not some idea of good design and brand. That definition isn’t rooted in a single damn thing.
Taste is that personalizing moment, that got transferred spiritually. It’s Naoto Fukasawa’s idea of embodiment in design. It didn’t come from a vague notion of “being good”. NOOOOOOOOO it came from dropping in on that moment in life, being ready an... See morefrom Product Lost by @hipcityreg | Reggie James | Substack by Reggie James
Andrei Stoica added 2d ago
- NYC tech’s newest symbol of peak status is a studio space built around a creative collective. The current wave of VCs & founders are running their businesses out of “Brooklyn-based studios” and investing in “the art of company building” predicated on taste. It’s all connected
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The new high-status thing is being a creative, high-p... See morefrom Tweet by Sean X
Andrei Stoica added 5d ago
- Painting and sculpture are now free, inasmuch as anyone may produce any sort of creation and subsequently display it. In architecture, however, this fundamental freedom, which must be regarded as a precondition for any art, does not exist, for a person must first have a diploma in order to build. Why?
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as... See morefrom Hundertwasser - Text Detail
Andrei Stoica added 15d ago
Working hard at the process and being relaxed about the outcome are NOT contradictory -Unknown
from Anson Yu's Site
Andrei Stoica added 15d ago
When writing in public, there is a common idea that you should make it accessible. This is a left over from mass media. Words addressed to a large and diverse set of people need to be simple and clear and free of jargon. It is valuable to write clearly of course, to a degree. Clear writing is clear thinking. But to make the content accessible? To
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Andrei Stoica added 15d ago