For 2010′s Edge Annual Question, John Brockman asked 165 of the smartest people he knows “How has the Internet changed the way you think? ” [It's a familiar topic around here... and I actually answered the question when I wrote about last year's.] A surprising number of answers are about sex. More than a few [...]
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Continuing the previous discussion of object bias and conceptions of time… As a very rough rule of thumb I like to apply a kind of generalized version of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle: “the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely…” [via SEP] Applied to social and economic models, [...]
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Concerning blogging, I was just thinking about the importance of establishing certain expectations and meeting them consistently… In the last day or two I’m having trouble getting up stamina for the big, synoptic, sustained posts I tend to write when I’m on a roll, and which I’m developing a kind of discipline for. I’m just going to jam a little and [...]
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I’m guessing this must seem pretty weird to a lot of people: I just love making up mottos, lists of “core values,” etc. I’ve done it since I was a kid. I can’t friggin help it. I used to do logos a lot too but as I got older I’ve tended to grow more at home in [...]
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Invert the notion of Web 2.0. Take all the principles we love and understand about Web 2.0 (or whatever you want to call it, or not call it) and apply them to the way we think about our own thinking. The mind works like the web, with continuous dynamic linking, aggregating, associating, categorizing, mashing-up, referring, and so on [...]
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For 2009′s Edge Annual Question, John Brockman asked, “What will change everything?” The answers are diverse, but the most common type of response seems to relate to some kind of leap in intelligence — maybe a majority that range from education to artificial intelligence. As I read through it and thought about my own answer, I started to [...]
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When I was a kid I wanted to be an architect. It started with a love of building forts — tree forts, snow forts, couch & blanket forts, cardboard box forts – and developed as I started to think about more ambitious fort plans that I didn’t actually have enough time and resources to build. I found the creative [...]
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That’s right, I’ve decided to quit blogging. I’m retiring from blogging to focus on reading, writing, posting some of my ideas online, linking to interesting content from around the web, curating it, making it meaningful and relevant, adding my own commentary and criticism, pointing out insights and fallacies, telling the occasional story, stirring the pot, bringing the [...]
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