Tanuj
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weaving tools for the web, and beyond
Tanuj
If our tools don’t better our collective humanity, we need new tools.
Saffron Huang • To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist
https://fulcra.design/Posts/Obsidian-Roam-and-the-rise-of-Integrated-Thinking-Environments/
Ryan J A Murphyaxle.design“Africans have a thing called ubuntu. It is about the essence of being human, it is part of the gift that Africa will give the world. It embraces hospitality, caring about others, being willing to go the extra mile for the sake of another. We believe that a person is a person through other persons, that my humanity is caught up, bound up,... See more
TheGentleProject • Everlasting Ubuntu as a way of life
And then there’s this 89-year-old grandmother, who got dressed nicely and put her paintings up for display at an art showing, and guess what? No one fucking came. Then she packed up her paintings and drove home, feeling “foolish.” You know what that is? It’s cluey as shit. Especially her choice of the word foolish in particular. I really don’t need... See more
Tim Urban • Clueyness: A Weird Kind of Sad
The web is called the web because its vitality depends on just that—an interconnected web of individual nodes breathing life into a vast network.
thecreativeindependent.com • My Website Is a Shifting House Next to a River of Knowledge. What Could Yours Be?
@borismus You only get to be early and right about a lot of things by trying a lot of things.
Early.
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“Alice” turns storytelling on its head by making narratives non-linear and participatory.
IDEO • The Future of the Book | ideo.com
So what are the problems of relying too heavily on stories? You view your life like "this" [a journey] instead of the mess that it is or it ought to be.