Philipp Rimmler

Their guest is Charles Broskoski, the co-founder and CEO of Are.na, and the first part of the podcast is devoted to an essay he wrote about “all of the important reference points (like books, artworks, people, etc) that have changed who I am (or maybe helped me become who I am).”

Context, in other words, can be derived from details.

That sounds fine, wonderful — real nonsense. Do more. More nonsensical, more crazy, more machines, more breasts, penises, cunts, whatever — make them abound with nonsense. Try and tickle something inside you, your “weird humor.” You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world.

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It’s critical to the mythology of the hero’s journey to establish the origin point, and like many in tech, our hero’s tend to venture West. Many American heroes have this in common.

Is your organization biased toward yesterday or tomorrow?

The idea is that the picture in its

frame

should give the illusion of being a window through which the immobile

eye

of the observer looks at an outside 3-dimensional world. (Alberti speaks of the canvas as ``an open window through which I see what I want to paint.'')

A surprising number of strategies are doomed from inception because their authors get attached to one particular approach without considering alternatives that would work better for their current circumstances. This happens when engineers want to pick tools solely because they are trending, and when executives insist on adopting the tech stack from... See more