Gus Guerrero
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Gus Guerrero
The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play . It seems to describe a life where it’s just fun to be reading, learning, writing, and collaborating on... See more
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
Erin Glasstwitter.comHarvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen (2016) put it even more concisely:
Theories then, are ideas about how things work - about causality and how to create change. And those who dismiss theory dismiss the practical application and power of ideas.
“A theory is a statement of causality. It’s a statement of what causes what and why.”
Theories then, are ideas about how things work - about causality and how to create change. And those who dismiss theory dismiss the practical application and power of ideas.
Strategy, Rediscovered? — Martin Weigel
was better to hear the unhappy details of such a life from the lips of the man who had led it rather than from someone else. Mothers often portrayed fathers in too flattering a light. Obituaries rarely told the whole story, especially when their subjects led classified lives.
Daniel Silva • The Black Widow
From the broad temporality
that this era forces us to make sense of, our existence is surely dependent
only on what it leaves behind.
That is, it forces us to imagine our lives as
the marks, remains and impacts we have left upon the Earth, without “our”
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meant
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that this era forces us to make sense of, our existence is surely dependent
only on what it leaves behind.
That is, it forces us to imagine our lives as
the marks, remains and impacts we have left upon the Earth, without “our”
in
fl
uence to de
fi
ne exactly what was
meant
by these marks.
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In social science, hope is not simply the belief that one’s circumstances will get better; for that, we use the term optimism. Hope is the belief that an individual can make things better.
All of this can be described in one word--'Aiglatson'--which is 'Nostalgia' spelled backwards and is a word told to me by Gabriel Fackre to symbolize the yearning for things to come;
revering the future;
without being disrespectful to the past (remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible), preferring the dreams of the future to the... See more
revering the future;
without being disrespectful to the past (remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible), preferring the dreams of the future to the... See more
We then used these objects to prompt discussions through questions of making – specifically asking participants ‘why do you think this was made?’ Making motivations is a lens being explored by the V&A East team as a curatorial framework and we wanted to build on this. Through these conversations, participants drew lines between their objects and... See more