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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
Some music is just imagined
Thelonious Monk embracing silence
We'll speak about the architectural imagination.
And I'm going to suggest that some concept like the imagination
is necessary if we want to treat architecture as a mode of knowledge.
The classical philosophers said, the soul
never thinks without phantasm, which is to say that thought needs a material
image, something to carry the thought.
So we begin to think of the imagination as bridging the gap between perception
and understanding.
source: HarvardX GSD1xThe Architectural Imagination
Hobie's biggest act of rebellion isn't against Miguel, but against himself. He says he doesn't care, and acts like he doesn't have a plan, but he does. He helps Miles escape. He had the portal maker already built when Gwen needed it. He knew exactly how this would all fall out, and had planned ahead to do it. He was playing a longer, better game of... See more
Georgia Dow • Across the Spider-Verse: Hobie Brown — Therapist Reacts!
SW: You have said that creativity is an import-export game, not a creation game. If the most original and effective ideas are more often borrowed than created, how can companies foster innovation?... See more
RB: We all specialize, for reasons of efficiency and productivity, and are often blind to good ideas that occur in other places. When someone brings us
David Ing • Innovation, cross-appropriation, social practice, and structural holes – Coevolving Innovations
When I am in good hands I open myself to a state of curiosity and appreciation. I allow myself to suspend preconceived notions. I give you freedom to take me where you want to go. I immerse myself in your worldview and pause judgement
As more and more identity formation happens online, it’s is inevitable that most of it happens in private spaces. As we spend more and more time living in these spaces, it’s inevitable that their intentional shaping should become more important to us. As more and more internet-first communities choose to build the means for themselves to live, it... See more
Subpixel Space • Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool
12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson — Book Summary | Tyler DeVries
People often think of advantage in networks in terms of being connected to powerful people. But when it comes to creating value, the advantage lies with people who are connected to those who aren’t themselves connected. These disconnects –- between people not already talking to one another or coordinating with one another –- are called holes in the... See more