Bradley McDevitt
@soupbone
Archetypal Scholar, Leadership Development Coach, Theater Nerd, Clown
Bradley McDevitt
thearchetype.substack.com
“Style is in no way a decoration as some people believe; it is not even a matter of technique; it is as color is with painters — a quality of vision.”
—Marcel Proust
It’s tough, but curating our exposure to incoming data is critical. If we are consistently participating in a cycle of negativity, this can and will affect our minds. Seek balance. While we cannot bury our heads in the sand and hide from darker realities, we should seek positive and neutral content to supplement. The world has both darkness and... See more
Dismantling current gen ed requirement to align with a new upstream mission will be hard. First, state boards must put a sunset date on all gen ed credit requirements that measure AI-replicable outcomes, replacing them with requirements focused on knowledge production and validation. Second, accrediting bodies must revise their standards to... See more
Education
Imagination expands the world. Just as economic growth and technological invention create new things in the world—things unknown since the beginning of time—so does language. We live, as the poet Robert Graves said, in a web of language. The bigger our web, the bigger our world.
Each generation has different things that force the generation to grow up. Maybe for our grandparents it was World War II. You know? For us…[we] have to put away childish things and discipline ourself about how much time do I spend being passively entertained?
David Foster Wallace
Standing in front of all my stuff, it hit me that all of it used to be money, and all of that used to be time. I was standing in front of the metabolic waste of my existence, materialized.
Metabolized time
Jung proposed to view Tarot as a direct path to our subconscious. A way to penetrate our deepest thoughts, to self-explore our place in the world and make sense of our own lives.
Theater & Other Productive Rituals
Friend speaks my mind.
cue for UX designers working on the development of new apps — anticipate the consequences of your creations and instead of adding fuel to the fire of addiction, bear in mind the ethical principles of designing the user experience.
I have a different view of the value of music. I believe music is a source of enchantment and a change agent in human life. So in my economics, a song can possess great value