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Innovation Inspired by Nature — AskNature
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Why Joy Should Be Your Primary Success Metric in Work and Life
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It’s true that we roll up our sleeves and help you dig yourself out if you’ve ended up under a literal pile. But to really effectively organize, it’s generally necessary to change your relationship with Stuff. To do this, some people need to excavate painful memories, face difficult truths about relationships, question the amount of time they dedic... See more
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The older I get, the more I fall out of love with efficiency. I’ve struggled enough mentally to know that many of the experiences that are most edifying and healing for me are slow and full of friction—cooking dinner with my bluesy women playlist rolling out of the speaker, a bottle of beer, and a cookbook dotted with sauces open-faced on the count... See more
Falling out of love with efficiency
Falling out of love with efficiency by Courtney Martin
In my opinion, this noticing/embellishing “trick” is not only learnable but innate. Pareidolia is pre-installed in every human brain, most likely as an evolutionary advantage – without it, we wouldn’t have constellations, the Man in the Moon, or see clouds that look like elephants. If you indulge a habit of noticing these things, you will see them ... See more
Rob Walker • Pareidolia Prompts
I find this notion of pareidolia and Zinn’s way of working with it, of supplementing it, inspiring. Catching a glimpse of one of his works before it disappears has a potential to add a mythological quality to the environment that will persist in memory and possibly the undercurrent of their reality. The way he builds on the themes over times in the same spot adds to this. He adds the magic to the world that people see out of the corner of their eyes and then dismiss. People are longing for this type of whimsy and fairy dust. It is a way of seeing the world that is generally left in childhood but that should maybe be nurtured instead. It is similar to the easter eggs that game designers leave in their designs that are found by gamers and treasured that build a mythology within the game and are maybe almost accumulated in personal identity.
What if we reframed “living with uncertainty” to “navigating mystery”? There’s more energy in that phrase.
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
The useful is the invitation to depth that myth always offers. Because if there’s uncertainty, then we are no longer sure quite what’s the right way to behave. And there’s potential in that, an openness to new forms. We are susceptible to what I call sacred transgression. Not straight-up theft but a recalibrating of taboo to further the making of c... See more
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
It occurs to me that this is possibly also the usefulness of paying attention to our dreams. These texts barely ever have any definitive answer or meaning but they call us to inner depths that just outside of our awareness.
The correct response to uncertainty is mythmaking. It always was. Not punditry, allegory, or mandate, but mythmaking. The creation of stories. We are tuned to do so, right down to our bones. The bewilderment, vivacity, and downright slog of life requires it. And such emerging art forms are not to cure or even resolve uncertainty but to deepen into ... See more