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Instead of trying to shape the map to look like the territory, they tried to make the territory look like the map.
taylorpearson.me • The Illegible Margin: Profiting From the Gap Between the Map and the Territory
History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes
A humane dynamic medium embraces the countless
ways in which human beings use their minds and bodies,
instead of cramming people into a tiny box of pixels.
One guest, after spending time at Dynamicland, held up
his smartphone and shouted, “This thing is a prison!”
ways in which human beings use their minds and bodies,
instead of cramming people into a tiny box of pixels.
One guest, after spending time at Dynamicland, held up
his smartphone and shouted, “This thing is a prison!”
Dynamicland
Every community has some missionaries and some mercenaries and there’s a place for both in any healthy ecosystem. But you need a balance: for your ecosystem to thrive and persist, you need at least a healthy, committed core of missionaries.
Lane Rettig • Why You Should Invest in Spacemesh
The perils of designing for scale
“We are in the midst of a major social transformation — moving many of our day-to-day activities from physical places to information-based places that we experience on our phones and computers. The central question here is: How can we design these information environments so they serve our social needs in the long... See more
“We are in the midst of a major social transformation — moving many of our day-to-day activities from physical places to information-based places that we experience on our phones and computers. The central question here is: How can we design these information environments so they serve our social needs in the long... See more
Caio Braga • The aesthetics of our new fictions
The Nostalgia Cycle Loop
Hope is the one virtue that requires imagination , in the sense that we consider the past and imagine a better future.
The nostalgic content being churned out via movies, books, even music(!) requires less imagination on our part because it comes from already-established world building. It’s easier to imagine the context... See more
Hope is the one virtue that requires imagination , in the sense that we consider the past and imagine a better future.
The nostalgic content being churned out via movies, books, even music(!) requires less imagination on our part because it comes from already-established world building. It’s easier to imagine the context... See more
kyla scanlon • The Nostalgia Cycle Loop
The Hydrant Directory
dayroselane.com
Copley’s painting, in other words, is an embodiment of the delays that it was created to endure. If Copley had had instant access to his instructors in London, if there had been an edX course given by the Royal Academy, he would not have been compelled to paint the way he did. Changing the pace of the exchange would have changed the form and... See more
Jennifer L. Roberts • Harvard art historian Jennifer Roberts teaches the value of immersive attention | Harvard Magazine
Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes. Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or “scenes” can occasionally generate. His actual definition is: “Scenius stands for the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is the communal form of the concept of the... See more