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Bon Voyage
The thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark
Miles Johnstonx.comFuture Food System Future Food System
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Infrastructure and World-Building
Of course! A basic need! Perhaps the most important one! We need to figure out how to produce food sustainably and resiliently
Hmmm I am not quite certain where I should put this, and I wanted to try and experiment with Sublime, so here goes my thought:
someday, I will systematically write my thoughts on how AI is shaping our ability to know and understand ourselves, especially to those of us who are keen journalists of our beings and great meditators of our existences —
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Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Adaptable Building Conference
adaptable building conference gathers change-makes to enable future-proof dwellings
World-Building and Infrastructure
https://www.designboom.com/architecture/adaptable-building-conference-2026-nieuwe-instituut-rotterdam-11-03-2025/Adaptable Building. Design and construction in the future, for the future. Resilience amid the poly-crisis. Climate adaptation also (in the 2000s
To the students: research is disruptive. Moving the field forward is its raison d'etre. And real progress will always invite a bit of resistance from those who prefer the familiar.
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Another brilliant wisdom from Mark Pandan
"No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant." - Giovanni Giocundo
Heaven isn’t a destination; it’s the way you meet this breath, this glance, this patch of light.
Heaven isn’t a destination; it’s the way you meet this breath, this glance, this patch of light.
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A new way of seeing: the way you meet this breath, this glance, ….
Basically seeing in the lens of how one approaches and meets (and of course welcomes and hosts) anything and everything in this moment.
Though now I can recall a connection, a similarity, of this to a poem by Rumi on emotions.
Its program combines visionary talks, provocative panel debates, and in-depth case studies
tim spears I designboom • adaptable building conference gathers change-makes to enable future-proof dwellings
A part for knowledge-sharing from an expert, a part for open forums and free discussions, and then a part for substantial collective review
We said that the artist has a subject, a voice, a point of view, a medium of expression, and a style. But where do these come from? How do we find our own? In my experience the process is neither rational nor logical. It can't be commanded. It can't be rushed. It is not subject to the will or the ego. We are born, I believe, with everything we are
... See moreSteven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
I especially like the last line — that we are born with it, and so the joy and the difficulty of the challenge abounds inward