on the professionalization of spirituality (part 2): what's next

this is part 2. see part 1 for framing.

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on the possibility of digital farming

at the media lab, there’s a group called the open agriculture group (mit openag). as far as i know, it was established and is still run by caleb harper (his ted talk is a good summary of the vision of his lab’s work).

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on the professionalization of spirituality (part 1): why is yoga training so expensive?

a few weeks ago, i had a great conversation with my friend, ambroise. here’s a rough roadmap of the points we discussed as they landed with me:

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new highlight methods from reading all about love

last year, i read bell hooks’ all about love. i’m still reeling from the number of ways that it changed my life, but one of them is that it totally changed my ā€œhighlightā€ game (and by highlight i really mean just markup)! i’ve never read a book that i wanted to highlight so much. some times i would mark entire pages.

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whiteness and property ownership: the right to exclude

two weeks ago, maureen and i went to go see claudia rankine’s talk on whiteness in boston (we also went to see toshi reagon’s in-progress opera for parable of the sower, but that’s a whole ā€˜nother topic).

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