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Driven by Compression Progress, Jürgen Schmidhuber. Beauty is compressibility; interest is its derivative.
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The Kekulé Problem, Cormac McCarthy.
The unconscious predates language and speaks in images. -
The Memory, Santiago Dabove. Memory survives the world that gave it form.
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Enter The Supersensorium, Erik Hoel. Art is dreaming’s cultural cousin.
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Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction, Zadie Smith.
Fiction presumes because no self is ever as fixed as the critics require. -
From Its Myriad Tips: Mushroom Brain, Francis Gooding.
Mycelium is cognition without a plan. -
Subjective Knowledge, Richard Sutton. Knowledge is grounded in sensation and action.
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Phatic Communion with Bob Dobbs, Bob Dobbs. Media make the myths and environments through which we think.
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Slack, Zvi Mowshowitz. Slack is absence of constraint. Guard it.
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Scenius, or Communal Genius, Kevin Kelly. Scenius is the genius of a scene. Destroyed by management, preserved by neglect.
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Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths, David Chapman.
How scenes get colonised and hollowed out. -
Embracing the Improbable, Kevin Kelly. Good futures are too specific to imagine.
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This is the Dream Time, Robin Hanson. We live in a brief, weird dreamtime.
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Deep Laziness, Sarah Perry. Elaborate the centres that already feel whole.
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Creative blocks, David Deutsch. Creativity is conjecture and criticism, not induction.
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Cybernetic Arbitrage, Soren Larson. Intelligence commoditizes; value accrues to owners of context, liability, and action.
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Composers as Gardeners, Brian Eno. Seed the system. Surrender to its dynamics.
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The Playing Field, Graham Duncan. Know exactly what game you’re playing.
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Cognitive load is what matters, Artem Zakirullin. Good code is cheap to hold in your head.
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Imagination Is Not Creativity, Applied Complexity. Creativity is unfolding, not executing a plan.
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Is or Is Not The Opposite Stupid on its Face?, Roger Martin.
If the opposite isn’t stupid, it’s a real choice. -
Do The Easy Neglected Task, Robin Hanson. The work that actually figures things out looks too easy to impress anyone, so nobody does it.
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You can’t tell people anything, Chip Morningstar. People learn by doing, not by being told.
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My fiancee is pushing me away, The Last Psychiatrist.
Introspection as elaborate defence. -
Beware the Casual Polymath, Applied Divinity Studies.
Polymaths launder status between domains. -
The World Face Up, Mónica Belevan.
Baroque had an outside. Hyperbaroque doesn’t. You are now the stage. -
De Libero Occultorum, Zermatist.
Ad-tech is the new book of hidden things. -
Entropy is in the eye of the beholder, Essentia Foundation.
Entropy is in the observer, not the system. -
What is Brand?, David Cramer. Brand is your values represented. Design isn’t brand.
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The Web Is a Customer Service Medium, Paul Ford. Why wasn’t I consulted?
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Context is that which is scarce, Tyler Cowen. Context is scarce. Teaching it is most of education.
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There Is No Economy but Only the Debt to the Center, Adam Katz & Zack Baker. Exchange is tribute; every transaction re-enacts a debt to the centre.
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Centering, Adam Katz. MacIntyre’s virtues reframed as centering: a practice is a disciplined way of taking turns at the centre.
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The Cosmic Chiasmus, Cormac Jones. Reality is a fivefold chiasmus with Christ at the pivot. Everything is central by virtue of having a centre.
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Why Generative Anthropology?, Peter Goldman. Culture defers violence by representing it.
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On compositionality, Jules Hedges. The opposite of compositionality is emergence.
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Breath of Fire, Mark Valin. Media guide us through chaos as America’s dream-ending echoes Japan’s revolutions.
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SEELE 101, Outer Heaven. The future is already here, in implication.