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I’m late for the future!
lisa
My job is not to think about what exists but rather what I want that does not yet exist.
Lessons I'm still learning
building a world
ideas only become clear once you begin to work on them
Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.
Allen Pike • An Unreasonable Amount of Time
Devotion is desire transmuted across time into love. It is an elevation of attention; a singleness of purpose, but in service to something greater than ourselves.
Kristin Posehn • The Mystery of Ramanujan's Dreams
So I’m not worried about the limits that reality places on scientific discovery. The strictest limits are inside our own minds—the questions we never ask because they seem too obvious, the explanations we accept without sufficient evidence, the studies we never run because they’re too far outside the consensus
Adam Mastroianni • Science Will Only End Once We've Licked All the Objects in the Universe
What drew me so desperately to Haraway at twenty, eager to find a way of being in the world that I could commit to, could follow towards something I wanted that I hadn’t yet (then, or maybe even now) learned to articulate, was her additive lens: her commitment to both/AND, to celebrating a purposeful, pleasurably rigorous way of being. Haraway... See more
The goal is to enlighten the newcomer while providing a novel twist that will please the expert. - When Einstein Walked With Godel