Pedro Parrachia

@parrachia

Tending to the Gardens of digital-native regeneration

floristic.xyz

You’re talking to a person at a party and his or her attention is elsewhere, annoyingly. How do you get their attention back to you, and then hold it?

For me, that’s the essence of my approach to writing.
from On Success
Design Fiction
Now on to the good news. Your no thanks doesn’t need to be an absolute, total, eternal no . We can use typewriters to write letters and write a poem on our phone at the bus stop. We can say no thanks to AI phone bots but still use ChatGPT to help us understand Aristotle’s Metaphysics in the original. We can be both critical and appreciative of new ... See more
from No Thanks
Technology
‘lore’—it’s a model of knowledge that is able to interface with both reality and fiction.
from I Would Very Much Like To Be Excluded From This Lore by Libby Marrs
Design Fiction
Both True: “The customer is always right” and “The audience doesn’t know what they want”
“Become a documentarian of what you do.”
from WIP: the case for sharing your work in public by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Decentralised technologies are resilient when a phenomenon that I term ‘self-infrastructuring’ occurs. ‘Self-infrastructuring’ is when people are able to participate in designing, owning, operating, governing, and/or maintaining their own infrastructure for resilience. It is the boundaries people place around their own actions in relation to share
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from Decentralised Technologies as “Self infrastructuring” by Kelsie Nabben
the creation of an alliance between communities that recognize themselves through the events mentioned here has the potential to take Brazil to a new level of collective leadership in the global ReFi ecosystem.
from Home by Pedro Parrachia
"We do this because the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning."
from The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
“Ain’t just about prospering, it’s about progressing, connecting, tappin’ into something larger than yourself, so you can really see. Can’t build nothing if you can’t feel nothing. Community comes from feeling and feeling comes hand in hand with creation. What y’all out here creating now?” — Janelle Monáe & Sheree Renée Thomas
from The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe

from On Success

from No Thanks

from I Would Very Much Like To Be Excluded From This Lore by Libby Marrs

from WIP: the case for sharing your work in public by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

from Decentralised Technologies as “Self infrastructuring” by Kelsie Nabben

from Home by Pedro Parrachia

from The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

from The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe