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The work of building a great community goes much farther beyond simply moderating a Slack group. A great community needs regular events and meetups. They need ways for leaders to step up and invent their own traditions, create their own events, and run their own sub-groups. Leading a community requires making it easy for members to become... See more
Linus Lee • The future of community: a future for communities | thesephist.com
“Sense of place – the way we perceive places such as streets, communities, cities or ecoregions – influences our well-being, how we describe and interact with a place, what we value in a place, our respect for ecosystems and other species, how we perceive the affordances of a place, our desire to build more sustainable and just communities, and how... See more
Dense Discovery • Dense Discovery / Issue 183
While in theory the notion of Quality might appear rather philosophical and idealistic, in practice it could not be more pragmatic. One can think of Quality as simply the highest -leverage input into a system. F or illustrative purposes we could envision a continuum of layers starting with a company’s high -level outputs: financial figures and key... See more
Anonymous • Conviction
Pace Layering and taste
Alexander is inspired by how design occurs in the natural world. "Things that are good have a certain kind of structure," he told me. "You can't get that structure except dynamically. Period. In nature you've got continuous very-small-feedback-loop adaptation going on, which is why things get to be harmonious. That's why they have the qualities... See more
Tomas Petricek • On architecture, urban planning and software construction
This is why I feel like people who are less cerebral and less aware of all of the ways in which they are imperfect, they just blast past everyone else. Because they're just doing things. And they get better so much quicker. So I think that's a message I want to give to the world. You're good to go. Just start doing things.
Alex Dobrenko • Get over your ick and do the thing
Absolutely! The metaphor of technology as “architecture for the mind and society” is a way to visualize how technology functions as more than a tool—it creates environments and frameworks that shape how we think, interact, and organize ourselves. Let’s break it down:
1. Architecture as a Framework
In physical spaces, architecture dictates how people
... See moreWhen I try a wine and I HATE it, but I can totally understand that it's good wine (no flaws, I can see why others might like it), I think that's what having "taste" is.
Apart from my subjective judgment, I can usefully apply the label "beautiful" to things I observe. To taste is to be a living being, but to have taste is to be human.
Apart from my subjective judgment, I can usefully apply the label "beautiful" to things I observe. To taste is to be a living being, but to have taste is to be human.
Overthink Podcast • Kant on the beautiful and taste: Critique of Judgment
No setlist, no preconceived intentions: this concert was 100% improvised. My focus is on connecting classical music and spontaneous re-composition. I'm improvising on classical piano pieces - by coming from a free idea, not knowing which piece it will going to be later on. Then I'll be developing this idea, exploring its potential and try to find... See more