pádraig ó tuama on understanding: "most of the time" (part 1)

“most people make decisions that seem reasonable to them most of the time.”

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marilyn nelson on magic, alliances, and God

marilyn nelson’s recent interview on on being was amazing.

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background apps, your brain, and personal systems

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.

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alternative futures: the bar - part 1 (DRAFT)

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…

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on the false dichotomy between the real world and cyberspace

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:

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