Pedro Parrachia
@parrachia
Tending to the Gardens
of digital-native
regeneration
floristic.xyzPedro Parrachia
There was a period when new tech improved the quality of life, but that time has now ended. In the last decade, we’ve seen new tech harming the people who use it the most—hence most so-called innovations are now anti-progress by any honest definition.
Human Stuff and
Both True: “The customer is always right” and “The audience doesn’t know what they want”
"We do this because the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning."
Sandra Cisneros • The House on Mango Street
In the world building and worlding eras, when the inhabitants of a world misbehaved and tried to smuggle their own narratives into the worldthe creators have been policing them to reestablish order. In the World Weaving era, rather than working with scripted storylines we should create lore-pills and origin myths that can be sewn together and
... See moreGVN • Three Eras of World Generation
An enabling environment significantly expands its participants’ capacity to do things they find meaningful and important.
Schools ostensibly aspire to this purpose, butEducational objectives often subvert themselvesin large part becauseEnabling environments’ activities directly serve an intrinsically meaningful purpose. In general,Enabling
... See moreAndy Matuschak • Enabling environment
Metaverse and
It is through use that resilience is situated in context, dependent on social dynamics, and adapting (or not) to meet the challenges of both external threats and internal vulnerabilities in relation to the purpose of the technology and community in question.