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Category Archives: Idea Factory
In 2013: letters, encouragement, edification
In 2013 I’m going to try something. I don’t usually do New Year’s resolutions, but I like the idea of the cold-startup (I don’t know what the opposite of cold turkey and ’stopping’ is, but that). For whatever reason, I need to do things all-or-none. I’m someone who thrives on having discipline in my life, [...]
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Gitter: Toward Twitter on Git(hub)
tl;dr — I love Twitter and I love git, and wouldn’t it be nice if I could build the former on the latter? What follows is a flight of fancy for your Friday feed reading…
Introduction
I went on a bike trip with my family last weekend, and when I came home, everyone was in flap about [...]
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On Tools and Tools()
My thinking often returns to tools. Whether philosophically or practically, the idea of the tool fascinates me. I first became aware of the question of tools through the writings of philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Heidegger, and Gadamer–tools, devices, equipment, the in-order-to, the ready-to-hand, the hammer vs. the hammering-hand. One of the difficulties of tools is [...]
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Elsewhere and Otherwise
One of the great difficulties I have in teaching is in trying to help my students understand the importance of narrative and personal reflection in their work. I routinely see people doing amazing things, but being unable or unaware of the significance of what is happening. Because it is happening to them at all they [...]
“Dad, tell them we made a game!”
We made a game, the girls and me. It happened like this. On Saturday I saw that the Mojang gang were spending their weekend creating a new game and live streaming the event. As I opened the video stream my oldest daughter walked into the room and asked what I was watching. When I told [...]
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Compelled
Today, via Forbes, I read the following on the Nest thermostat:
What Is It Like To Own A Nest Thermometer?
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“It’s pretty satisfying. The more basic functionality is actually the most appealing. Twisting to change the temperature is more compelling and lighter weight than the standard thermostats, so I do that more often than [...]
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Future in the Past
The other day, while reading William Gibson no less, I paused to consider the term ‘Virtual Reality.’ I’ve encountered this term on both sides of its existence, even though it has never existed, never could. During my undergraduate work, In one of my computer science classes, I had a professor who specialized in [...]
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A Harvest Table
For many years, my wife and I have wanted to get a harvest table. Between cooking, eating, and home school we spend a lot of time as a family around a table. Philosophically as well as practically, the central organizing role of a well-made table is important to the functioning of our family.
There are literally [...]
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Beyond Reality TV: The New Acting
The new acting requires new skills. Where once an actor took a role in a film, television show, &c., the new acting disperses the subject across media, and increasingly, traditional, everyday media. Where once the actor produced a body of work, the new acting is the body of the actor. Distribution, we used to understand, [...]
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