February 2012
15 posts
“Introversion — along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness — is...”
– Susan Cain in Quiet, one of 7 great books by TED 2012 speakers. (via curiositycounts)
Shareable: Design It Yourself →
This is a thorough walkthrough of what seems to be considered the “ideal” design process nowadays. Design grammar school. Gotta know the rules before you break em.
“There may be no better way to achieve lasting happiness — as opposed to mere...”
– Guitar Zero - a neuroscientist debunks the myth of a “music talent” and learns to play. (via curiositycounts)
“I still feel that there is too much music in the world. I’m not convinced that...”
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Experimental producer Matthew Herbert on the current state of music in our latest 5-10-15-20 interview. (via pitchfork)
My first thought was: Screw this guy—it’s great that everyone is making music. My second thought was: The fact that so many people feel they must try to sell...
joeyjoseph: Senior School! →
joeyjoseph:
Now opening, senior residence community with an emphasis on education. Why stop learning? Why freeze yourself as one person for the rest of your life? Why not start over again? Always wished you’d studied biology or anthropology? You can! Those other senior living communities are just dorms with…
“The underlying assumption of brainstorming is that if people are scared of...”
– Whoops
Jonah Lehrer rounds up decades worth of evidence debunking the myth of brainstorming. Lehrer’s new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works, comes out next month and is a must-read.
“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.
It is not a matter of rosy...”
– Sam Ullman (via commondense)
“A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (via miu-sherandhiscollar)
January 2012
19 posts
“I have now reached the point where I may indicate briefly what to me constitutes...”
– SO & SO Issue 4 by Alasdair Monk (via banquethall)
“It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire...”
– Lama Thubten Yeshe (via lucifelle)
“Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment....”
– Marshall McLuhan: the medium is the MASSAGE
“‘Jobs’ represent a relatively recent pattern of work. From the fifteenth century...”
– Marshall McLuhan: the medium is the MASSAGE
“In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on...”
– Alfred North Whitehead: Adventures of Ideas (found in the medium is the MASSAGE)
“There is a tremendous gap between the hardware (buildings) that become virtual...”
– THE INDUCTION CITY (via joeyjoseph)
“In the pursuit of progress, citizens are typically invited to engage in a...”
– Tactical Urbanism Volume 1 (via ecstaticcity)
“Fast communications in the end is a sort of escapism that temporarily removes us...”
– Afternet · trenchant.org · January 10, 2012
“But the major, killing flaw I see in S.1970 is that it has no provision for an...”
– S.1970 Text and Analysis / The “Tech-Sync” Attempted CF Fraud Story - Change Crowdfunding Law
“S. 1970
To amend the securities laws to provide for registration exemptions for...”
– Bill Text - 112th Congress (2011-2012) - THOMAS (Library of Congress)
“The world we truly want is something more like sustainability on steroids; not...”
– Shareable: A Path to Thriving: “Possess” Nothing, “Own” Everything
“For 5,000 years,” says Cole, “we built cities around people, and they worked...”
– Between the Lines - Features - Los Angeles magazine
“Commercial landowners like parking lots; they generate cash until better...”
– Between the Lines - Features - Los Angeles magazine
December 2011
29 posts
“To make the sorts of choices that might actually yield our next and truly...”
– Douglas Rushkoff
“Transition Towns (also known as Transition network or Transition Movement) is a...”
– Transition Towns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Permaculturists maintain that, where vastly differing systems meet, there is an...”
– Permaculture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“How would your neighborhood be transformed if the connectivity in your community...”
– the connective
“The proposed Golden Gate placemaking project has two phases. The first is a...”
– Neighbors working to create a sense of place in the Golden Gate District – Oakland North
“What if we sped up local decision-making? What if we made public opinion...”
– Neighborland at PechaKucha
Service Design Repository →
Playcate or Recess? →
joeyjoseph:
I’m opening a new cafe in San Francisco, it’s called Playcate or Recess, it’s an indoor playground system scaled for adults, with knock-your-socks-off organic artisanal versions from your classic school lunch days. There’s an open plan coworking space with the best rates in the city. Wednesday and Saturday nights are local handmade flea markets. Thursdays and Fridays, the kitchen is...
“How might an organisation based around the economic power of unpaid interns...”
– DSG (via banquethall)
isomorphismes:
02:30 If you look carefully at...
“We want volunteering that is sustainable, so that at the end of six months it...”
– Meals on Wheels San Francisco
“Cyclos is a project of the Dutch non profit organization STRO.
Cyclos offers a...”
– Cyclos Project
“Occupy demonstrates that to transform society we must change not only the way we...”
– Shareable: A Home for Occupy