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Thomas
“I don’t remember ever being forced to accept compromises, but I have willingly accepted constraints.”
— Charles Eames
The creative power of constraints
The archetypal influencer produces life-style porn of one form or another, playing up the aspirational glamour of their own home or meals or vacations. The new wave of curators is more outward-looking, borrowing from the influencer’s playbook and piggybacking on social media’s intimate interaction with followers in order to address a body of... See more
🛟✨The Nexialist #0177
But we don’t always have access to a retreat center, a monastery, or a library, what we do have is this place, a base camp, a landmark for thinking beyond thought.
The metaphor of the base camp is particularly apt for this kind of contemplative scholarship. Like the mountaineer’s base camp—a place of preparation and return, of gathering resources... See more
The metaphor of the base camp is particularly apt for this kind of contemplative scholarship. Like the mountaineer’s base camp—a place of preparation and return, of gathering resources... See more
Adam Robbert • Attention is an Art Form
Meanwhile, our corporations are full of bodies - our offices have become disembodied and mediated via Zoom screens but our teams are still embodied and grappling with new environments.
The body becomes a clearer extension of the organization now that we're playing in emergent territory - the home is now the office and companies are now in the... See more
The body becomes a clearer extension of the organization now that we're playing in emergent territory - the home is now the office and companies are now in the... See more
Tom Critchlow • LF08 - Embodied Futures
The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That hard work will involve things like addressing wealth inequality and taming capitalism. For technologists, the hardest work of all—the task that they most want to avoid—will be questioning the
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