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The second road is learning to navigate existing systems more consciously. This means:

• Teaching digital literacy that goes beyond privacy concerns to understand attention dynamics and how you might be getting trapped by your preferences


• Developing cross-platform resilience for creators and businesses


• Creating ways to archive and preserve digital

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The concept of play can, of course, be tricky to pin down (Sutton-Smith 1997). For some it means a specific form of activity, for others it is a disposi-tion (Barnett 1991), a process of unfolding contingency (Malaby 2007), a state of experience (Csikszentmihalyi and Bennett 1971), or located within a play frame (Bateson 1972; Goffman 1974;... See more

Briefly: a flow is any change over time, and a stock is the accumulation of flows. So your refrigerator's stock of food is fairly constant over time, but this consists of flows in when you shop, and flows out when you eat. The value of a business (the stock) is the value of existing assets plus future free cash flows.1 But wait! That value is... See more

The production of ignorance and not-knowing is rife in an information ecosystem increasingly mediated by AI. As a result, we mistake probabilistic guesses for ‘hallucinations.’ We mistake reflections in a mirror for a prediction about the future. We mistake uncertainty for risk we can manage. We mistake the production of ignorance for intelligence.... See more

“What it would be like to live in a mental world where one’s reasons for making something functionally, and one’s reasons for making something a certain shape, or in a certain ornamental way are coming from precisely the same place in you?

Precisely the same place.”

— Christopher Alexander

Jeff Bezos once said:

“If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that.

“At Amazon we like things to work in five to

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Philosophers and practitioners of architecture have long studied the relationship between physical spaces and ritual, ritual and the creation of culture, culture and the embodiment of thought.

It’s why, as a complete novice to the field, one of the first things you learn is that architecture is an irreducible mode of thinking in its own right . It’s... See more