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A beautiful intelligent union of Beethoven and the Blues, that spoke to my heart. Pure magic happens when an artist like Jon Batiste is attuned and surrenders to a higher intelligence.
Peace, love and creative vibrations from Sydney, Australia.
Peace, love and creative vibrations from Sydney, Australia.
Für Elise - Reverie
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
And so, while language is necessary, it does a disservice to reality. In attempting to describe the indescribable, words constrain reality. Through simplifications, generalizations, and connotations they mischaracterize and water it down. They fail to capture the complexity, uniqueness, and dynamism of life. And as a result, we never truly see,... See more
The Pursuit
"You can choose to sleepwalk through life and accept the path that's been laid out for you. You can choose to accept the world as it is. But you don't have to. If there's something in the world you feel is wrong, and you have a vision for what a better world could be, you can find your guiding principle, and fight for a cause."One of the best talks... See more
Rui Oliveira • Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
Kinsey’s methods as a sex-researcher were forged with his entomological research. Studying wasps, he learned that the key to biological discovery is in large sample sizes—in collecting as much information as possible, and then charting individual variation. Even Kinsey recognized his scientific practice as a form of collecting:
Most of us like to... See more
Jillian Hess • Alfred Kinsey's Notes on Americans' Sex-Lives
In architecture, fiction will replace function. (“Form follows fiction.”)
— Bernard Tschumi, “Manifestos,” 1978
— Bernard Tschumi, “Manifestos,” 1978
Peter L’Official • Black Builders
Thackara social fiction
The most fundamental software infrastructure has become commoditized to the point where most of the innovation is now created at the interface with end users. In the consumer internet world in particular, the marginal cost of software is zero, and design is now the differentiator.
Rewilding the internet is more than a metaphor. It’s a framework and plan. It gives us fresh eyes for the wicked problem of extraction and control, and new means and allies to fix it. It recognizes that ending internet monopolies isn’t just an intellectual problem. It’s an emotional one. It answers questions like how do we keep going when the... See more