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As soon as you start down the slippery slope of doing things based on convention, you are diluting your independence and uniqueness, which is to say your reason for existing. Even the smallest things can start to bend you toward conformity.

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!”

And worst of all, we’ve lost sight of the most salient part about computers: their malleability. We’ve acquiesced the creation of our virtual worlds, where we now spend most of our time, to the select few who can spend the millions to hire enough software engineers. So many of the photons that hit our eyes come from purely fungible pixels, yet for... See more

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

But nature is not simply dynamic, either. Some things change quickly, but they are nested within other things that change less quickly. Leaves change more quickly than tress, and trees more quickly than forests. Weather changes faster than climate. It’s chaos, within order, within chaos, within higher order. The order that is most real is the order

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