Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories. Yuval Noah Harari It seems that this is what we are all doing. Not specifically just now during the pandemic, but all the time. Context has just allowed us to to slow down and notice things a little more.…
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…
… 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…
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…
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…