a few months ago i was wrapping up a productivity session with my friend ian. in that last call he made an analogy that boiled down a bunch of the conceptual elements we’d discussed.
Read more...note: this is another draft for a piece i’ll submit to the alternative futures project i’ve launched with my friend grant. i think i’m going to string this piece together with two others (the clock and the culture core) to make a single story that is three different places at the same time. we’ll see if it works…
Read more...another thought that stuck with me from debbie millman’s interview with anil dash is about the false dichotomy between the real world and cyberspace. paraphrasing, anil said something along the lines of:
Read more...i have never read this post (still) but it’s been cited enough times for me to know that this is many people’s source for this idea. because of how ideas flow around the internet, i’m not sure how much my thinking about this topic has been influenced by people who have read it, but what follows are my own scattered thoughts.
Read more...last week, my friend aisha made a really good point in a conversation about boston. the way i understand what she said was this: boston is a great place to start things and a difficult place to sustain and grow things. boston has huge institutional resources, schools and hospitals mostly. but unless you’re inside of or deeply connected to one of those institutions, you don’t have access to those resources. one example she gave was how the number of art events she got invited to skyrocketed after she became friends with an artist who was working at an art school in town.
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