Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

From the Pieholes of Makebaters Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Vincent van Gogh

Ludic Cerebration The interactions matter more than the nature of the units. Studying individual ants will never (one can safely say never for most such situations), never give us an idea on how the ant colony operates. For that, one needs to understand an ant colony as an ant colony, no less, no more, not a collection of ants. This is called an “emergent” property of the whole, by which parts and whole differ because what matters is the interactions between such parts. The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority Nassim Nicholas Taleb Incerto

Trap Trip Go Ahead, Open Your Trap People need the wisdom, or the imagination, of others. Who do you learn from? You might have a wise and compassionate friend. But very few people, maybe no people, can invent their own menu of possibilities. Don’t great works of art have something to teach you? Maybe Tolstoy has something to teach you. Maybe Debussy. Maybe many others. No one would deny that Noam Chomsky has special intellectual capacities. Beethoven has special capacities, Ibsen had great insight into the psychology of human beings. If we’re imagining that a better world could be created, don’t we need their help? Wally Shawn

Things That Pop Into Minds Sound is intimate. That’s why I do radio and podcast: the sound connects us, retrieving a pre-internet, pre-printing press, pre-scribal sense of community. Douglas Rushkoff

Overtalk And Undertalk There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t receive. Saul Bellow

Nuggets For Your Weltanschauung Diversions, Reversions, Revisions, Inversions, Versions, Visions

Logos Lolol The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now. "Rush" John Crowley's Engine Summer