mindlace

OK, here’s your motivation. You’ve been chosen for a new reality show.
You’ve been taken to infinimart, where they have literally everything available for retail sale on the planet.
The check-out lane says you can have 12 items or fewer, and those are the only physical items you can own for the next year. Otherwise your life is as […]

Every time I hang out with that kid I come out of it feeling rejuvenated and with a renewed faith in our ability to bring some measure of sanity to this benighted ball of rock. Plus he’s pretty hot.

Cognitive daily suggests that parenting behaviours rather than “philosophies” have the most correlation with teen attitudes towards helping:
In short, if you want your kids to value helping others in a variety of ways, this research suggests that you’re likely to be effective when you actively encourage those behaviors through conversation, experiential learning, and other actions

The hardest part about living, for me, is when I am in a ‘forced choice’ situation where all my choices are potentially or definitely hurtful for someone I care about. It gets extra hard when some subset of those choices are things I very much want to do.
Usually in this situation I do everything I can […]

Vika and I just got done watching Equilibrium, the movie that should’ve had the mindshare that the matrix stole.
I particularly appreciated the role of the protagonist; he was an inside man, raised and honed to be a tool of the machine. Most importantly, he commits atrocities on his way to understanding, and in the end all […]

The Generic Republic Universal Protocol (GRUP) is a set of behaviours that allow an individual to participate in the Naught Distributed Republic (0DR). It requires the participation in a number of communication media in order to gain voting capital. Voting capital may be ‘spent’ in Request For Action auctions. An RFA auction is like an […]

We’re getting an overview of mapmaking and how its useful - the Mark Monmonier discusses weather sites. Then he gets into political remapping- the impact here is quite large.
Jeremy Crampton talks about “transformation” as a motiviation for blogging. Personal transformation (self discovery, Focault’s technology of the self). Second is sociopolitical transformation, or changing people’s thinking. This […]