long form documents September 17, 2020 blog Word processors are powerful tools which are mostly used like very expensive electric typewriters. Remember those? What follows are eight installation view September 16, 2020 blog In August 2019 I went and saw Olafur Eliasson’s In Real Life exhibition at the Tate Modern in London. The exhibition was a large collection of three applications for research September 14, 2020 blog Last week I posted a set of three principles for a research system. At the end of the post I mentioned that I use the same collection of plain text asking questions September 13, 2020 blog In Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana outline a method for turning classrooms around so research systems September 8, 2020 blog It’s autumn in the northern hemisphere and this means — among many others things, and even in spite of a certain pandemic — that the new University there is no cloud September 7, 2020 blog There is no cloud, it’s just someone else’s computer. This is a sticker created by designer Chris Watterston that went “global”: dial-a-spectacle September 6, 2020 blog Emilie Gallier is a French artist based in the Netherlands. This is the call-out for her performance work called ‘Dial-a-Spectacle’: Dear all, I nick cave and mercy August 30, 2020 blog Nick Cave’s The Red Hand Files is a site online where Cave responds to a huge range of questions from his fans. His responses are at various times failed institute of failure August 16, 2020 blog The 2001 Tim Etchells and Matthew Goulish online curatorial project called “The Institute of Failure” is/was an amazing collection of ideas to do slow motion August 2, 2020 blog Fantastic introduction by Phil Edwards at Vox into how slow motion works and how seductive it is. reblogged from postcards from before August 2, 2020 blog The artist Lil Boyce began a project in Melbourne in 2003. It started as a series of conversations with people about the places they’d lived in. She advantage of writing July 19, 2020 blog The most important advantage of writing is that it helps us to confront ourselves when we do not understand something as well as we would like to the long view July 4, 2020 blog If human beings really were able to take the long view — to consider seriously the fate of civilization decades or centuries after our deaths — we naps July 3, 2020 blog In praise of naps: In many ways, naps are Zambonis for our brains. They smooth out the nicks, scuffs, and scratches a typical day has left on our tendency to want to do something June 29, 2020 blog From this amazing page of mental models, here’s the Tendency to Want to Do Something (Fight/Flight, Intervention, Demonstration of Value, etc.) We changing minds June 21, 2020 blog … people don’t change their minds through confrontation and argumentation. They DO change their minds, sometimes very quickly; but quietly, in donato sansone concatenation June 20, 2020 blog Donato Sansone’s extraordinary work of splicing, slicing, rotating olympic games footage as if to be a single shot. Repost from comfort in June 7, 2020 blog My friend Tamara Tomić-Vajagić once sent me this guide to not saying the wrong thing. It’s spectacularly simple: comfort in, dump out. Image: Wes confront our errors May 29, 2020 blog The real enemy of independent thinking is not any external authority, but our own inertia. We need to find ways to counteract confirmation bias –- empty May 24, 2020 blog This is a short film directed by Benoît Toulemonde that follows the musician Nils Frahm as he collects (and makes) sounds. The film is highly Next page