23 Mar 2017
back near the end of show about race, tanner kept raising a question about whether or not wanting a multicultural society is elitist. his main argument, which he got from a book he read, was basically that travel far from home is an activity that mostly elites have the opportunity to do. therefore, tribal instincts remain stronger among non-elites because they literally don’t get to see or interact with people different from them often. i couldn’t tell if he was being genuinely curious or disengenuous, but i’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. that question does hold water: what if multiculturalism really is a drive that comes from elites? would that change how social change makers see their work?
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22 Mar 2017
around 29 minutes into anil dash’s interview on design matters he talks about this fascinating and terrifying trend. because he lays it out so brilliantly, i’m just going to rehash his points as i understood them.
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21 Mar 2017
sometimes when i first hear something, it just floats by me. well, i guess it doesn’t float “by,” but it definitely doesn’t stick out as important. i suppose it gets processed and internalized, but just remains idle. but then, when another thought that’s relevant comes bombarding in, it lights up that other idea and makes it pop. i don’t know if that happens to anyone else, but this post is a recent example of this occurrence (although to not take too much credit i should be clear that krista made this specific connection in the episode herself this does happen at other times, too).
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20 Mar 2017
i’m listening to the carlo rovelli episode of on being and it’s one of the few that really stretches me. the way he talks about math and physics in some ways is really elegant and in other ways is just way over my head. that said, there are still some interesting takeaways.
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19 Mar 2017
in the last month, i’ve had three random, really positive encounters on the train. one of them i’ve already written about and the other two happened in the last two weeks.
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