June 2011
9 posts
“Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the...”
– To test the veracity of this claim, I decided to start at the farthest possible concept from Philosophy: the Justin Bieber wikipedia page. It took only 25 pages to get from Bieber to Philosophy, with fascinating intermediate pages like Rock & Roll, Federalism, and Science. (via emmawelles)
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“Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the...”
– To test the veracity of this claim, I decided to start at the farthest possible concept from Philosophy: the Justin Bieber wikipedia page. It took only 25 pages to get from Bieber to Philosophy, with fascinating intermediate pages like Rock & Roll, Federalism, and Science. (via emmawelles)
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May 2011
7 posts
1 tag
On being 35
I’m 35! Luckily, the roller-coasters of entrepreneurship and parenthood don’t really let things drift accidentally out of perspective, only to be thrust upon one at yearly anniversaries. The sense of mortality, obscurity, youth vs age, and passing opportunity never get taken much for granted these days… I have the luxury of insomnia and feeling like a grain of sand in a big universe...
Thoughts on social objects
Hadn’t read Hugh MacLeod’s entries on Social Objects before:
The hard currency of the Internet is “Social Objects”.
i.e. Social Objects for people to SHARE MEANINGFULLY with other people.
Definitely worth a read if you haven’t already.
Social objects are basically the contents of memes. Or, conversations.
A bit of an abridged history of social objects:
Stars in the...
How to build a brain
This post is part daydream, part hallucination, part nightmare. I only believe about 25% of it myself… but I just wanted to follow the idea to the end…
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First, you need to build a map of the terrain, and learn how to travel it. How big is the skull, how fast can we travel from one end of the map to the other? Telescopes, roads, trains, boats, airplanes, the postal service,...
