A useful, critical taxonomy of decentralization, beyond blockchains - by Cory Doctorow
The Mystery of the Cathedrals - by Fulcanelli (book reading)
Man experiences irony, 1966.
Instead of starting with a roadmap and tacking on measures…
Diagram by @MrAlanCooper - The assumption is that it's better for a design to reflect the user's mental model more so than the underlying tech.
Today in "the fall of western civilization": Bosses of Vladimir Putin
Pronoia is a neologism coined to describe a state of mind that is the opposite of paranoia. Whereas a person suffering from paranoia feels that persons or entities are conspiring against them, a person experiencing pronoia feels that the world around them conspires to do them good.
Art in Muynak, Uzbekistan. Showing how the Aral Sea looked in the past - by Nikita Makarenko
I generate
If one assumes that "the nature of knowledge is fractal: The closer you get, the more you'll find", it is no surprise that anything one sufficiently becomes aware of (thinks, feels), serendipitously appears more and more all around us: Think of that unique idea or desire you've been privately developing for weeks, when suddenly you discover that countless fully fleshed out manifestations of it already exist in the world. Confirmation bias? I have my doubts. In a reality with no real boundary between individuals and past-present-future, where everything is generated at the speed of awareness, a central question is what is worth while doing at all. Faced with an infinite ocean of possibilities, shifting from "doing" to "being" is a useful strategy to prevent succumbing to nihilism and insanity. Simply focus on relaxing, the rest will take care of it self.