Adrian
Reading Jo’s notes on her Cards Against Technology idea I was wondering about what situations I’d deploy them, which led me into wider thoughts about group exercises and my natural aversion to them. At least in the ways that I tend to encounter them. It’s usually with groups of complete (or at...
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[The Prometheus Shot – EK04 :: Beauty ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. Why does beauty matter? And why does it shape our thinking, creativity, and culture more than we realize? Beauty is not just decoration… not just taste… not merely a subjective quality. In this episode of The...
Chris Krycho
Digital technologies can be terribly destructive, but they can also be gloriously empowering. How do we shape them into tools for conviviality rather than means of domination? A bit of context: I wrote this for a magazine a couple years ago, but it ended up not working out, so I’m publishing it...
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[The Prometheus Shot – EK03 :: Approximate Thinking ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. On Incomplete Knowledge, Identities, and Social Inertia In this part of the “Edge of Knowledge” exploration, we go after a weird truth: approximate thinking is the operating system of knowledge,...
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[The Prometheus Shot – EK02 :: Incompletness, Gödel, Polanyi, You! ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. What if the very core of knowledge is not certainty, but incompleteness? Let’s continue the provocative journey from the optimism of Hilbert’s program, his dream of a perfectly...
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[The Prometheus Shot – EK01 :: Uncertainty, Bohr, Heisenberg ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. In this episode, we navigate the nature of uncertainty, not as a modern inconvenience, but as an essential feature of reality, knowledge, identity, and creativity. What if uncertainty is...
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[The Prometheus Shot – E013 :: Escher’s Vision – The Creativity of Integration & Transformation ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. (See the Video / Podcast Links Below) In this Creativeness Dive, we embark on a reflective journey into the intricate universe of M.C. Escher—the...
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[The Prometheus Shot – E012 :: Decoding Leonardo Da Vinci: The Creative Polymath ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. (See the Video / Podcast Links Below) The Polymath.A man beyond discipline—blurring lines between painting and physics, anatomy and poetry, mechanics and music. He...
RobTatman
1If you’ve thought about something three times – stop and do something about it. Slight hot spot inside your shoe? Bit peckish and thinking about getting a snack from your bag? Bit icy underfoot and wondering if it’s time to slip the micro-spikes on? When things are going well and we are...
John Neel
Depth of field is a way to assure a selection of the subjects in an image appears sharp. Depth of field is a cause of aperture function. It has to do with the opening created by the lens iris relative to the subjects in a scene. It has to do with light cones. Light cones are the gathered rays of...