Favourite articles

#Predication before predicate

• Driven by Compression Progress⌝, Jürgen Schmidhuber. Beauty is compressibility; interest is its derivative.

• 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.

• Enter The Supersensorium⌝, Erik Hoel. Art is dreaming’s cultural cousin.

• 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.

• Phatic Communion with Bob Dobbs⌝, Bob Dobbs. Media make the myths and environments through which we think.

#Guard what has no price

• Slack⌝, Zvi Mowshowitz. Slack is absence of constraint. Guard it.

• Scenius, or Communal Genius⌝, Kevin Kelly. Scenius is the genius of a scene. Destroyed by management, preserved by neglect.

• 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.

• This is the Dream Time⌝, Robin Hanson. We live in a brief, weird dreamtime.

#Elaborate what’s already whole

• Deep Laziness⌝, Sarah Perry. Elaborate the centres that already feel whole.

• Creative blocks⌝, David Deutsch. Creativity is conjecture and criticism, not induction.

• Cybernetic Arbitrage⌝, Soren Larson. Intelligence commoditizes; value accrues to owners of context, liability, and action.

• Composers as Gardeners⌝, Brian Eno. Seed the system. Surrender to its dynamics.

• The Playing Field⌝, Graham Duncan. Know exactly what game you’re playing.

• Cognitive load is what matters⌝, Artem Zakirullin. Good code is cheap to hold in your head.

• Imagination Is Not Creativity⌝, Applied Complexity. Creativity is unfolding, not executing a plan.

• 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.

• You can’t tell people anything⌝, Chip Morningstar. People learn by doing, not by being told.

#Name the real thing

• 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.

• The Web Is a Customer Service Medium⌝, Paul Ford. Why wasn’t I consulted?

• Context is that which is scarce⌝, Tyler Cowen. Context is scarce. Teaching it is most of education.

#Orient to the centre

• 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.

• Centering⌝, Adam Katz. MacIntyre’s virtues reframed as centering: a practice is a disciplined way of taking turns at the centre.

• The Cosmic Chiasmus⌝, Cormac Jones. Reality is a fivefold chiasmus with Christ at the pivot. Everything is central by virtue of having a centre.

• Why Generative Anthropology?⌝, Peter Goldman. Culture defers violence by representing it.

• On compositionality⌝, Jules Hedges. The opposite of compositionality is emergence.

• Breath of Fire⌝, Mark Valin. Media guide us through chaos as America’s dream-ending echoes Japan’s revolutions.

• SEELE 101⌝, Outer Heaven. The future is already here, in implication.