the feelies
philosophy - technology
the feelies
In the moment of insight, your head feels expanded, something lets go in your body, and you say, “That’s it.”
A. H. Almaas • Diamond Heart: Elements of the Real in Man
The feel of things vs the think of things.
My mentor John Borthwick recently turned me to the phrase: “The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.”
I’m thinking about how the only way to get better at making things is to make things, and to let the thinking happen inside the work – where you can judge a thing based on how it feels –... See more
My mentor John Borthwick recently turned me to the phrase: “The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.”
I’m thinking about how the only way to get better at making things is to make things, and to let the thinking happen inside the work – where you can judge a thing based on how it feels –... See more
Things I'm thinking about
Q: What is the last thing that makes us human?
A: We feel. We just feel things, and our job in this world is to feel. The fact that we have a body, and that body has sensations, means something. We’ve reduced ourselves and our minds to intelligence, but that is a disservice to our full humanity.
Paraphrased from Not Boring Radio (Hyperlegible 011):
... See moreSuccess isn’t metrics. It’s how alive we feel. AI is abundant. Humanity is scarce. That flips the economics of value.