worlding at institutional scale
As Arthur Schopenhauer observed, 'reality' is created by the act of willing; it is the stubborn indifference of the world to my intention, the world's reluctance to submit to my will, that rebounds in the perception of the world as real constraining, limiting and disobedient.
Sylvan Rackham added 1mo ago
- Posting can be fun, entertaining, and even enlightening. But when we want to share a creative act we went deep into the void to create, we owe our work more than a post. We owe it a RELEASE.
A RELEASE is a richer and deeper expression of an idea. A release is not just the work, it’s anticipating the work. There’s an invitation to become part of it i... See morefrom Do you post or do you RELEASE? by Yancey Strickler
Sylvan Rackham added 1mo ago
- Worlding is the art of devising a World: by choosing its dysfunctional present, maintaining its habitable past, aiming at its transformative future, and ultimately, letting it outlive your authorial control.
from Worlding Raga: 2 – What is a World? by Ian Cheng
Sylvan Rackham added 1mo ago
- The sweet spot for startups is seeing 24 months into the future. This is a stone’s throw into the adjacent possible. It’s far-out enough to be asymmetric, familiar enough to be pitchable, and time enough to build.
from Gordon Brander | Substack by Gordon Brander
Sylvan Rackham added 15d ago
- [Willed introversion] cannot be described, quite, as an answer to any specific call. Rather, it is a deliberate, terrific refusal to respond to anything but the deepest, highest, richest answer to the as yet unknown demand of some waiting void within
from The artist and the inner retreat
Sylvan Rackham added 1mo ago
- Linus Torvalds's style of development—release early and often, delegate everything you can, be open to the point of promiscuity—came as a surprise. No quiet, reverent cathedral-building here—rather, the Linux community seemed to resemble a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches (aptly symbolized by the Linux archive sites, who'd ... See more
from The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Steven Raymond
Sylvan Rackham added 1mo ago
- We regularly think of worlds operating with specific external boundaries, which contain relative internal coherency despite the occasional leak.(1) The Victorian fascination with terrariums demonstrates this well. But what if the opposite were true, and unstable boundaries are precisely what constitutes worldness?
from How to Repair a Spaceport by Kei Kreutler by Kei Kreutler
Sylvan Rackham added 9d ago
- What is a World?
We could say a World is something like a gated garden. A World has borders. A World has laws. A World has values. A World has dysfunction. A World can grow up. A World has members who live in it. A World gives its members permission to act differently than outside of it. A World incentivizes its members to keep it alive, often with ... See morefrom Worlding Raga: 2 – What is a World? by Ian Cheng
Sylvan Rackham added 1mo ago
- A World is a reality you can believe in: one that promises to bring about habitable structure from the potential of chaos, and aim toward a future transformative enough to metabolize the pain and pleasure of its dysfunction.
from Worlding Raga: 2 – What is a World? by Ian Cheng
Sylvan Rackham added 1mo ago