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"If we can see further than most, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Iddris helps us update our operating system and think from micro to macro while empowering Generation Z. I am an architect of life. I believe we can affect the world through great design and cultural innovation.

What are the major challenges we face?

Let’s go for global warming, peak oil and ubiquitous computing.

Ubiquitous computing?

Totally ubiquitous computing. One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. In the future, that will become literally

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Towards a body of work.

What is it supposed to speak to? It should be, I hope, beyond the scope of scaling one app. It should be, I hope, in constant dialogue of bridging past, present, and future.

I think, at least what I’ve been meditating on for the past 7 months, is that we have to look towards designing an organization that allows the ability... See more

How did Donella meadows navigate this spectrum? See her laws for system thinking

Gordon

The excerpt explores the contrast between two types of thinkers or philosophers—labeled as “prickly” and “gooey”—based on their approach to understanding and interpreting the world.

1. Philosophy vs. Science:

• The first part suggests that philosophy fills the

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Taste is easily defined as the ability to discriminate between the valuable and the expandable. It’s another word for Good Judgment. When you decide whether to eat sushi or calamari for dinner, you're in fact erecting a hierarchy of value, and passing judgment according to said hierarchy. If you choose sushi, that is because you've deemed it best... 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

There are only two factors that limit the potential for interesting communities to arise: the availability of people searching for new communities to join, and the ability for those people to gather and do interesting things together. Both of these things are on the rise.