Since my month of Learning How To Do Nothing, I have been seriously work-oriented. Which is great, as I am getting a lot done. But it has returned me to the world of stresses, and has resulted in my increasingly obvious stress-induced weakened immune system (and my current attempt to cope with a bad case [...]
This is a little old draft that’s been kicking around; just some thoughts about knowledge, communication, culture and the brain. It makes me think: I don’t know nearly enough about neuropsychology. I think the ‘cultural commons’ is a generalization about the entire network of knowledge that’s ever been exchanged. I heard once that it’s easier [...]
We’re building a board of contributing editors. Come on board and you can write about anything you like, it’s called Open after all, but the secret guiding scheme is this: collectively we’re writing toward a messy and many-headed theory of everything. I think the most interesting theories don’t come from the academy, but are observations [...]
In September 2001 I got back from a summer in Toronto, where I’d been living on my own for the first time, and I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was another move I needed to do next. One more step out of my parents bright, cozy and too-quiet suburban home. I spent the day [...]
did you miss part 1? Linus wasn’t an intentional revolutionary or anything like that, but his understanding of the different kind of success that might be possible with a committed effort of collaborative devlopment built something new. In this viral, communicative way I think Hiphop and Open Source share a politics. At the core of [...]
I asked my teenage sisters to read this essay by Paul Graham, because I think I wish I’d read it when I was a kid, and to share with us their responses. Here’s what they came up with. The entire essay can be found on Paul Graham’s website: http://www.paulgraham.com When I said I was speaking [...]
