Molly Simpson
@spagmol
thinker, feeler, third-wheeler
collecting dots here, connecting them there ￬
Molly Simpson
spagmol.substack.com
If this is a dream I would want to dream it all over again. I would want to go back to sleep right away. I wouldn’t believe real life could be any better than this is. I would say has this really been a dream? Because I wouldn’t believe I’d have the presence of mind to conjure all these conversations with my friends that go places that I don’t
... See moreintelligence is not something which exists, but something one does; it is active, interpersonal and generative, and it manifests when we think and act.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
nature doesn’t have intelligence, it is intelligence. intelligence as a verb, not a noun.
The activist and technologist Pia Mancini once told me about the emergence of a new word in Barcelona: yosotros — a combination of “I” (”yo”) and “We” (”nosotros”) that represents the collective I, the singular We. The term emerged through political movements, but its implications feel bigger. Could this represent a form of collective self? A new... See more
The Post-Individual
We are forced to pick a singular lane and consistently craft our personal brand, package ourselves into a product and appease the repetitive, insatiable appetite of the algorithm. If we do this successfully, we can grow our audience and reap the rewards of financial and social capital.
This is the winning strategy for competing in today’s Olympic... See more
This is the winning strategy for competing in today’s Olympic... See more
Nick Susi • The Multitudes of Self
Start with the simplicity of noticing sad, mad, or glad. From there, explore the nuances and layers of feelings.
Chris McAlister • Figure That Shift Out
When science divides reality up into disciplinary parts and deals with them separately, it reveals a lack of understanding of reality as a whole, as a system.
Russell Ackoff • The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
social systems