Thought poking
Words and ideas that poke your brain and make ya go huh
Thought poking
Missing feedback is one of the most common causes of system malfunction.
donellameadows.org • Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
With our level of possible medical technology and production in general, any sane society would have many more cheap hospitals, better fed people, and plans for meeting such pandemias. Ergo: we live in an insane society.
-Darko Suvin, Capitalism is not Biologically Sustainable for Homo Sapiens
Norgram — Design Studio
norgram.co
Interesting Danish design studio
If you let others define your product category and follow accepted playbooks, you’re playing the game on others’ terms, including their market size.
Rippling and the Return of Ambition - Founders Fund
… anyone interesting is at war with themselves, and can thus be described in just two words.
-Diomedes au Raa
from Pierce Brown’s Dark Age, pg. 19
What risk are we radically underestimating as a species? What are we overestimating?
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
Nadia Asparouhova • Nadia Asparouhova on antimemetics, nuclear mysticism, and scrolling
Put the right people in the right environment and great ideas aren’t just possible, they’re nearly inevitable.
ABOUT — Beam Development
Bounce, don’t break: resilience isn’t about avoiding knockdowns; it’s about how you use them as launching pads.
-Shane Parrish