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Monk’s intimate, exhaustive and poetic improvisations pioneered new languages of modern jazz and helped birth bebop as a seminal art form. “And then there was the silence. There is nothing more daunting and mysterious. We flood silence with chatter, we fill it with noise or notes rather than let it reveal what it knows or just let it be,” wrote... See more

The Divided Brain and Ways of Building the World, Or Ettlinger

Christopher Alexander’s insights about the built world have surprising parallels with the insights of Iain McGilchrist about the brain hemispheres.

McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher, and literary scholar who revisited and reinterpreted the roles of the... See more

I'm not sure that there is an inherent tension between scale and trustworthy information systems, but I am confident confident, especially after being in the belly of the beast for as long as I was at Facebook, that there is an inherent tension between trustworthy information and centralized governance systems at a scale.

Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference – the way in which we are like no other life.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

The catch is that it’s incredibly difficult to assign comparative value to those things to which we are emotionally connected. What monetary value would you assign to your closest friend? The question feels absurd because you cannot put a value on something you are unwilling to part with. The things we are unwilling to part with are often those... See more

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2 years ago

The passage from 6:00 to 6:50 has to be one of the most insane modulating, build-up, climatic passages ever conceived. I get goosebumps every time