Pedro Parrachia
@parrachia
Tending to the Gardens
of digital-native
regeneration
floristic.xyzPedro Parrachia
The real question is, where does scarcity still exist? It exists where it has always existed—in the distribution layer, with the limits on human attention. Artificial intelligence can generate abundance in creation, it can even create new currencies, but it cannot convert attention into currency. Only human beings can do that.
I’ll go even further... See more
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you can have a huge fire going but you won't be able to light up a cigarette
(not a thread)
“Become a documentarian of what you do.”
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • WIP: the case for sharing your work in public
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
"Who cares if the first draft is good? It doesn’t need to be good, it just needs to be, so you can revise it. You don’t need an idea to start a story. You just need a sentence"
- George Saunders
(good advice in general)
Andy Weissmantwitter.comThe future elaboration of flexible, interlinked, uncontrollable networks must be worked out at these increasing levels of complexity. While the experience of the circulation of the Zapatista uprising can teach us much about the ways in which rhizomatically organized, autonomous but linked groups can replace "the organization" with its rigidities
... See moreHarry Cleaver • The Zapatistas and the Electronic Fabric of Struggle*
