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The concept of "events" in the article "The Body As Mixer" intersects interestingly with ideas of time in complex adaptive systems, particularly when considering the distinction between chronos and kairos.●Chronos refers to linear, sequential time, the kind we measure with clocks and calendars. It's the quantitative aspect of time.●Kairos, on the... See more

Vinnie Colaiuta, a musician, has said, "Thought is the enemy of flow".

Colaiuta explains that there are only creative events, not mistakes, when it comes to flow.

Compared with the fragmented, D.I.Y. Web I knew, social media felt strangely predictable. User profiles on new sites like LinkedIn or Flickr were templated and surrounded by ads. They offered preset options from categories and drop-down menus—age, location, institutional affiliation—and quantified influence through friend and follower counts. The... See more

The negative consequences of forcing the forests to become legible to their planners didn’t become obvious until after second rotation of trees to be planted, about a century later. This is important to note: the first-order effects, what happens right away, are often beneficial; it’s the second and third-order effects of forcing legibility onto an... See more