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Farsighted

Just finishing up Steven Johnson’s Farsighted and though it is a book about decision making, it makes a great point about the role and power of storytelling. Johnson talks about stories breeding ways that humans have developed to run simulations of a multi variate world. While they don’t always provide direct, stories (with novels given…

October 10, 2019
P&E

… pre emptive dump (When I first started this) Over the past few weeks, I’ve been in wedding/vacation/travel mode. The experience was great as an opportunity to disconnect from many of the stressors and facades of daily life and making connections and being present. In my teaching world I’m a massive proponent of face to…

September 24, 2019
Quick stories are destroying conversation

I’m in the middle of reading (listening to actually) Turkle’s Reclaiming Conversation and it seems to be a continual stream of examples describing just how the brevity of phone based stories (messages, social media, images) had had a significant impact on the way that quite literally billions of people communicate. I mused about this earlier…

May 25, 2019
Remixing stories or Isn’t the Encyclopedia dead?

The last time I posted I was thinking about how stories have value because they have some manner of permanence due to the media that is used to transmit them. Moving away from the digital ephemera that I talked about in that post, a visit to Disneyland, and the “Summer of Statues” got me thinking…

September 11, 2018
Stories everywhere

I started poking at this idea back in October of 2017, but it wasn’t until earlier this month that a story in The Atlantic helped crystallize things for me. Over the last year and a bit, it seems that through the move fast and steal… sorry break stuff manner of Facebook, stories as a post format have…

July 8, 2018