The Conversational Creator
Issue 1 of The Frontier
The Conversational Creator
as far as I can tell, everyone is given different values to live by. Different questions to live into. Different gods who live in their chest. Different combinations of natural concerns that balance out very differently.
River Kenna • Destabilization & the Frequency of Values
“I would say that the demand for the perfect is the greatest enemy of the good. Perfection is a mathematical or divine concept, goodness is a beautiful human concept that includes us all.”
-Richard Rohr
the most transformative dialogues often feature exploration rather than predetermined outcomes. We don’t know what we want, and we use conversation to get closer to articulating our desire. Some conversations are infinite, like games for their own sake.
A Philosophy of Conversation
Growth mindset is just replying to yourself with “skill issue” every time something goes wrong
Emmett Shear • Tweet
I really like this Emerson riff: as long as you’re under the illusion that someone is the absolute and solitary progenitor of an idea, you cannot properly appreciate either the person or the idea
Visakan Veerasamyx.comThere's so little to be done except let go, follow one's nature, and unfold what needs to happen moment by moment, even in the midst of dissolution and Mystery. I am no longer talking about caterpillars.
River Kenna • Destabilization & the Frequency of Values
Here are 13 things that every skilled chaos-surfer understands:
- How something appears to you may not be how it is.
- What is said or shown may not be all there is.
- What is true for me may not be true for you.
- The same words may mean different things to different people.
- What people say may not be what they mean. Because comms is lossy and language is
Packy McCormick • visakan veerasamy on Substack
Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.