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“What I’m interested in is deep aesthetics: the universal or near-universal forms that elicit deep, subconscious positive or negative emotional responses. These deep aesthetics are changing, too, but not nearly fast enough to keep pace with rapid technological, political, and social upheaval around us.”... See more
– Lane Rettig, on the importance of studying
Rebecca • Architecting digital spaces
SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES
In the ever present Twitter meme of “the same people that pivoted to web3 are now pivoting to AI” — I find it quite dangerous that folks don’t genuinely hold on to a few core questions that fulfill them. Instead it seems that many of us are willing to blow wherever the clout winds might most accumulate to our sails.
Now, the... See more
In the ever present Twitter meme of “the same people that pivoted to web3 are now pivoting to AI” — I find it quite dangerous that folks don’t genuinely hold on to a few core questions that fulfill them. Instead it seems that many of us are willing to blow wherever the clout winds might most accumulate to our sails.
Now, the... See more
Reggie James • Ask The Same Question
"If stories are linked with regularly repeated spatial practices, they become mutually supportive, and when a story becomes sedimented into the landscape, the story and the place dialectically help to construct and reproduce each other. Places help to recall stories that are associated with them, and places only exist (as named locales) by virtue... See more
Weidenfeld & Nicolson • You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World
The Hydrant Directory
dayroselane.com
Synthesis as art:
Howard Gardner • A Look Inside “A Synthesizing Mind” by Howard Gardner (Book Summary)
“In our endeavor to understand reality, we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case.”
-Einstein
The most fundamental software infrastructure has become commoditized to the point where most of the innovation is now created at the interface with end users. In the consumer internet world in particular, the marginal cost of software is zero, and design is now the differentiator.