Time-based notes with Alexander Griekspoor
[Despite having training materials and support, people generally learn the tool socially.]
[Build community forum posting into the app.]
[Ask people to describe their workflows.]
Time-based notes with Alexander Griekspoor
[Despite having training materials and support, people generally learn the tool socially.]
[Build community forum posting into the app.]
[Ask people to describe their workflows.]
['Identity theft' is favourable because it absolves institutions of their responsibility to secure their authentication systems.]
[Start out by not letting anyone touch it without being there to show how it works. First give a demo to let them see what they can do with the product, then guide them while they try it for themselves.]
[Help provide context and help them understand why they should care.]
Let's talk about how "canceling" isn't new....
[Conservative views getting squeezed out of social media is american capitalism: companies side with the larger market and the younger generation is more profitable than the older one.]
Let's talk about how to teach or learn history....
[History books often focus on who, what, when, where, leaving out the why, which is the most interesting part.]
[Understand the whys of yesterday so that the motives of tomorrow make more sense.]
false collectives: fake activisim and social media
[Facebook's algorithm gives prominence to the 2% of Mother Jones that favours the GOP and Fox News making it seem like it's 50% of their content.]
Keys to Beyond: What is time? What is 'an organism"?
[We are not just connected as people, or as a species, or as living beings, or as nature itself: we are connected to everything and everything is one. Our ideas of connectedness and separation are damaged by what culture teaches us to believe about ourselves.]
[When the human species was learning language, they were imitating something far greater than what we have now, in the same way that a baby imitates it parents.]
[Science has no voice and tells us nothing. Scientists are who we listen to.]
[Not from our separate experiences but from our 'unique' experiences.]
[The concept of human years doesn't take into account the cumulative years of all humans, the temporal relation between one human and the others, the time experience of individual cells that multiply during the passing of time itself. You are older than any number humanity has ever tried to imagine or is even capable of exploring.]
[Physical objects are exactly how old we say they are because they are not relational. Humans are not objects and will never be objects. Machines have nothing in common with us.]
[The metaphors used in technology are broken. Don't use the language or the words.]
[The internet, the smartphone, the watch, the calendar, the car, are all representations of something innate that you will never see once you commit to using its representation.]
[In order to follow these keys out of our cages, we need to dissolve representations instead of talking about it or writing books.]
[Representations via human culture are crippling. They are broken toys designed to trap you and replicate then, convert others to believe the same thing.]
[Nature has no purpose: it creates purposes continuously by existing. If you have a purpose, you are dead.]
[Humans build representations, burn down nature, and worship what they created.]
[Instead of allowing authority to stand above you, lift nature above you and look up.]
[If you like something, go and become that. Know beforehand whether you are jumping into water or fire. If you are a good swimmer, jump into the water. If you are strong enough to avoid burn, jump into the fire. But don't jump into the fire and say it burns.]
[Use imagery to project a mood or vibe: calm, simple, fundamental.]
Platforms for Public Good w/ Mathew Lawrence & Thomas Hanna
[Instead of having ride data siloed inside Uber or Lyft, let it be part of a commons so that local governments can use the data to aid city planning.]
Building an Open-Source Publishing Platform That Makes $63,000/mo
[You will always get more of what you already have.]
Aliens, insects, and an operating system that works like our minds
[Insects are completely involved in their experience of being alive.]
[It's ironic that we destroy our planet to create rockets that enable us to search for non-human life in space when there is more non-human life here on earth than we have imagined to be anywhere in space.]
[People going around telling each other about bad news, terrifying futures, incredible problems doesn't solve the problem and is debilitating those who are subjected to it. It's just 'sharing the damage'.]
[The vetting sentinel analyzes every media item and exposes agendas, biases, stakeholders.]
[Gamification of social activism.]
[In the way that Cain kills Abel and exiles him to an underworld, in our childhood we are subdued by a dominating linguistic authority that re-defines our notions of what it means to live and exist.]
Let's talk about a foreign policy joke....
[The US government funds gender studies in Pakistan to impede the formation military opposition there. It does not in Saudi Arabia because they are allies and don't want to compromise the power structure of their friends. It's not about women.]
[It's hard to effect change without visualizing the whole system. Use tools that help seeing and playing with the dynamics.]
[The three types of feedback loops are re-inforcing, balancing, and chaos. We can effect change in complex systems by creating feedback loops that bring our state to the desired ideal.]
[Create attractors (deepen valleys) that stabilize to positive outcomes. Shorten mountains to make negative outcomes easier to avoid.]