Thomas
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Thomas
When you wake up each morning, do you think: what apps do I want to use?
Or do you wonder instead: what goals do I want to achieve?
For the last decade, our smartphones — the most important computers in our lives — have forced us to think about life in a pretty specific way. “There’s an app for that!” Apple proclaimed, as they laid out the very... See more
Or do you wonder instead: what goals do I want to achieve?
For the last decade, our smartphones — the most important computers in our lives — have forced us to think about life in a pretty specific way. “There’s an app for that!” Apple proclaimed, as they laid out the very... See more
The Browser Company • The Age of the App Is Over
“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
-Margaret Mead
Values aren't pre-built frameworks but prompts for curiosity and critical thinking.
Values aren't answers; they are questions.
Values aren't chains; they are wings.
Values aren't answers; they are questions.
Values aren't chains; they are wings.
Values Aren't Chains; They Are Wings
. Stay weird
Lastly, we need to accept the fundamental trippy weirdness of imagination, the sheer play of it, and not always reduce it to functional adaptation. There must be room for the surreal, the fantastic, the idealistic and even the nonsensical. Even in the full bloom of the scientific revolution, thinkers of all stripes – Emanuel... See more
Lastly, we need to accept the fundamental trippy weirdness of imagination, the sheer play of it, and not always reduce it to functional adaptation. There must be room for the surreal, the fantastic, the idealistic and even the nonsensical. Even in the full bloom of the scientific revolution, thinkers of all stripes – Emanuel... See more
Stephen T Asma • Why we need a new kind of education: Imagination Studies | Aeon Essays
Framing 101
frameworksinstitute.org
‘Yeah, TikTok is for three things: learning stuff and feeling good about yourself, stalking people, and brain rot.’
In this way, brain rot is what we might call a ‘genre of participation’, to borrow a term from the work of the cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito. On a digital social media application like TikTok, with its endless different types of... See more
In this way, brain rot is what we might call a ‘genre of participation’, to borrow a term from the work of the cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito. On a digital social media application like TikTok, with its endless different types of... See more
