living ideas.
12 concepts, intuitions, and insights that are shining brightly and growing in meaning for me.
1.
UNOPTIMIZED
Resisting the urge to flatten that which makes us human.
2.
OTIUM
We only know its opposite in English: negotiation.
3.
FALSE PROPHETS
Don't de-bug your features.
4.
THE CHOSEN
To whom do you listen?
5.
DEAD METAPHORS
More zest, less conformity.
6.
THE SCORE
What game are you playing?
7.
INTUITION, INGENUITY, SMALL DATA
“We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us.”
— John Culkin
8.
ADVANCING DATA LITERACY
Humanities on equal footing with tech.
9.
BEHIND THE REQUEST FOR SPEED
Slow, slow, fast.
10.
THAT WE SHOULD ALL TURN [OUT] HEALTHY?
A critical inquiry into the project of preparing JCHS students for ‘healthy’ lives in the ‘real’ world.
11.
STEADFAST LUXURY
Your race, your pace.
12.
LIFE OF MEANING
"That’s what you’ve got to figure out." —Curly