provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
How to avoid cynicism:
Act in ways opposite to your instinct. If you hate something, find out more about it. Again ask 'What is this?', 'Who made this?', 'Who is this for?' Genuinely. Never stop doing this"
-via @being_on_line
“the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
A quote from The Utopia of Rules
The fork on your plate isn’t inevitable—it’s propaganda. Its design has been polished by centuries of iteration, yes, but also by centuries of forgetting. We stopped asking why a fork looks the way it does because it became too familiar to question. It’s not a tool anymore; it’s a dogma.
But supernormal isn’t about inevitability. It’s about normalization. When something becomes so ubiquitous, so embedded in daily life, it disappears from view. That’s not just true for objects—it’s true for the systems we live by. Markets, money, time.
Frank by Seth Brown
The Misalignment Museum
being too intellectual is a terrible danger. it takes you further from your basic truth. “don’t think - feel”
Figma acquisition shows how hard it is to turn money into software. You'd think for $20B you could build something as good as Figma yourself, but you can't. Software is art.
Nathan Manousostwitter.comThe story ends when enough people stop believing in it, not when the opportunity space actually dries up.