weekly Go Flip Yourself
roundup links to share every week on k7v.in and flana.substack.com
weekly Go Flip Yourself
#395 – Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin
open.spotify.com- greatest storyteller of all time?
- 6 magic words: let me tell you a story
We should be thinking much harder about ensuring children can make meaningful contributions, and we should teach them in ways that are sensitive to the context of the real world.
19 Adults and 4 Babies Call This Cozy Commune in Oakland Home
apartmenttherapy.com
finally a commune with babies. about the balance between shared and private spaces.
- 'maybe waging war on loneliness is the wrong battle'
- 'Maybe the inevitability of loneliness—in love, in taking a principled stance, in escaping past selves, in grief, is the better starting point for technology to improve our lives. I would like tools to cope with the unknowable other and unknowable self, but it is foolish to aspire to absolutes.'
Calm Technology
calmtech.comwritten in 1996!
The important waves of technological change are those that fundamentally alter the place of technology in our lives. What matters is not technology itself, but its relationship to us.
We do have a problem of stuff. which is why we’re building objet.cc
Change and growth cannot be bought, only earned through the difficult business of removing all of the dross and faulty thinking (that’s been imposed on us) and getting to the core of things:
Love, service, creativity, community, relationships, family.
Efforts and Goals and Joy
open.substack.com
When asked about his silence during meetings, Rockefeller often recited a poem:
A wise old owl lived in an oak,
The more he saw the less he spoke,
The less he spoke, the more he heard,
Why aren’t we all like that old bird?