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When information is brushed against information the results are startling and effective. The perennial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.
— Marshall McLuhan, The Medium Is The Massage
Reggie James • The Body As Mixer
I studied Classics in college. When I read Caro, I cannot help but think that his work is -- in terms of quality, significance, and longevity -- comparable to that of Thucydides, Tacitus, Suetonius. Truly one of a kind.
Robert Caro: Understanding Power (Full Length Version)
The reason I’ve just made you read a thousand words about trees (bet you didn’t think you were going to do that today) is that it illustrates the problems of taking a complex system and applying a simple process to it in order to optimize a single metric.
Which brings us back to business: there are a huge number of complex systems in a business,... See more
Which brings us back to business: there are a huge number of complex systems in a business,... See more
taylorpearson.me • The Illegible Margin: Profiting From the Gap Between the Map and the Territory
THEY ATE TOGETHER every chance they could. They had to. The enormous photocopiers they were responsible for maintaining were so complex, temperamental, and variable between models and upgrades that it was difficult to keep the machines functioning without frequent conversations with their peers about the ever-shifting nuances of repair and care.... See more
The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine - First Draft | Books in Progress
in the movie inception the architects
find that they can finally realize their
wildest dreams
because they're in fact designing inside
a dream
the arctic hero cobb explains how he and
his wife wanted to live in a house with
a garden but preferred to live in a high
rise
in real life we would have to choose he
says
but in a dream we could get it as we
wanted it
find that they can finally realize their
wildest dreams
because they're in fact designing inside
a dream
the arctic hero cobb explains how he and
his wife wanted to live in a house with
a garden but preferred to live in a high
rise
in real life we would have to choose he
says
but in a dream we could get it as we
wanted it
YouTube Transcript - read YouTube videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIsIKv1lFZw
Kernel’s open source curriculum is an incredible resource for anyone interested in how designing digital spaces will change with the introduction of decentralized data storage and economics. From studying money through the lens of linguistics and culture to understanding, truly, how trust is constructed in complex systems, it’s the most sincere,... See more
Rebecca • Architecting digital spaces
If we want to build something that aids us both in our thinking process and the expression of our ideas – a thinking-writing thing – that thing must be a medium , not a tool. A thinking-writing medium that enables us to think new thoughts and imagine new stories by allowing us to think beyond pieces of paper and our working memory. This must be... See more