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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoWhen the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s, by John Ganz (2024)2024-02-27T15:16:35+00:00
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374605445/whentheclockbroke
robertogrecohistory 1990s us politics crownheights davidduke survivalists rushlimbaugh neoconservatives neoconservatism paleo-con 1992 patbuchanan rossperot populism asia coldwar conspiracytheories billclinton radicalism ronaldreagan catholicism socialmedia conservatism conservatives abstraction theory johnganzhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:870951c6885d/To See the World Whole - by Christian Study Center2024-02-26T02:00:27+00:00
https://christianstudycenter.substack.com/p/to-see-the-world-whole
robertogreco2024 lmsacasas wholeness objectivity abstraction academia highered highereducation quantification science scientism technology beholding silence agesegregation work life howwelive departmentalization separation philosophy compartmentalization behaviorism technosolutionism ai artificialintelligence machinelearning cyborgs power control hartmutrosa wendellberry cslewis romanoguardini love knowledge progress canon modernity isaacnewton physics specialization faith reason enlightenment mind body humanism facts value values disintegration society culture nature alienation scale humanscale slow small presence distraction attention depression isolation suicide peace wonder maxpicard jrrtolkein livinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5bfaad48bb3a/So... the minute hand shows progression — apparently we think of time in wildly different ways - YouTube2024-01-15T23:09:58+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeopkvAP-ag
robertogreco2021 time timetelling clocks analog watches digital digitalclocks digitalwatches howwethink perception abstraction timekeepinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:55b77c127aa7/Miracles and Tears • Buttondown2022-08-15T22:25:07+00:00
https://buttondown.email/ayjay/archive/miracles-and-tears/
robertogrecoThe language we use to speak of the world and its creatures, including ourselves, has gained a certain analytical power (along with a lot of expertish pomp) but has lost much of its power to designate what is being analyzed or to convey any respect or care or affection or devotion toward it. As a result we have a lot of genuinely concerned people calling upon us to “save” a world which their language simultaneously reduces to an assemblage of perfectly featureless and dispirited “ecosystems,” “organisms,” “environments,” “mechanisms,” and the like. It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.
Emphasis mine. It’s noteworthy how this point converges with Audre Lorde’s famous line – famous among a rather different audience than Berry’s – “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”"]]>alanjacobs wendellberry audreylorde 2022 language abstraction respect care affection devotion ecosystems organisms life environmenthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a55a7b3118fb/Marianne Williamson: Why You're So Sad - YouTube2022-08-10T21:19:10+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlNPVhmS7Yw
robertogrecogravelinstitute 2022 mariannewilliamson robertputnam sociology society sadness anxiety depression mentalhealth community connection belonging life living unions laborunions clubs religion spirituality meaning purpose us neoliberalism capitalism relationships dignity social socialsafetynet 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s church communities neighborliness civics democracy socialtrust friendship love suspicion individualism libertarianism self-centeredness latecapitalism markets privatization financialization consumerism competition economics work education health healthcare emptiness drugs prescriptions antidepressants identity consumption cults extremism cynicism internet web online socialmedia addiction asmr companionship loneliness ageism agesegregation elderabuse suicide coldness overdose humans values solidarity conviviality abstraction money labor productivity atomization exploitation polarization humanconnectionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1f57fe2604b0/PODCAST: Adolph Reed, Jr. on “The South: Jim Crow and its Afterlives”2022-04-08T18:34:23+00:00
https://www.progressivecity.net/single-post/podcast-adolph-reed-jr-on-the-south-jim-crow-and-its-afterlives
robertogrecoadolphreedjr 2022 history us jimcrow race catholicism thirdculturekids experience essentialism aesopsfables moralism morality civilrightsera organizing allisonlirishdean south northcarolina perception abstraction theodoradorno presentism quotidian everyday resilience poverty inequality organzing liberalism psychology therapy hagiography individualism lovecraftcountry gameofthrones historicity past present touréreed continuity change class 1950s 1960shttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9ed08cafea39/A heartfelt farewell from Dieter Bohn - The Verge2022-03-04T20:46:32+00:00
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22960011/farewell-from-dieter-bohn
robertogrecodieterbohn computers computing howwewrite language writing online web identity words 2022 semiotics shipoftheseus objects philosophy meaning abstraction communication socialmedia handles usernames names naming meaningmakinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e1c857a93052/Etel Adnan on lightning-strike paintings and words as gestures · SFMOMA2021-11-28T19:16:41+00:00
https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/etel-adnan-lightning-strike-paintings-and-words-gestures/
robertogrecoeteladnan art poetry anno'hanlon dominicancollege philosophy aesthetics painting timing readiness howwelearn learning tools howwework language writing howwewrite drawing color mounttamalpais creativity abstraction inspiration exile life living relationships morethanhuman sanfrancisco mysticism happiness sfmoma paradisehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:40829b2f9cdf/κακό παιδί on Twitter: “What Benjamin found in the child’s consciousness, badgered out of existence by bourgeois education and so crucial to redeem (albeit in new form), was precisely the unsevered connection between perception and action tha2021-08-05T02:40:54+00:00
https://twitter.com/ChildFragments/status/1422565312231268355
robertogrecosusanbuck-morse walterbenjamin children consciousness revolution adults handson creativity texture tactile socialization abstraction schooling schooliness unschoolinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:24f913e1f792/Yanis Varoufakis: From an Economics without Capitalism to Markets without Capitalism | DiEM25 - YouTube2021-01-27T03:31:48+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aK4OztueuE
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https://www.filmsforaction.org/news/revolution-and-american-indians-marxism-is-as-alien-to-my-culture-as-capitalism/
robertogrecorussellmeans 1980 writing oraltradition lakota thinking abstraction indigeneity genocide resistance marxism culture outsiders education unschooling deschooling leftism anarchism johnlocke adamsmith descartes physics politics economics christianity religion efficiency spirituality complexity hegel karlmarx materialism isaacnewton dehumanization despiritualization progress development victory freedom loss indoctrination schools schooling scientism rationalism capitalism redistribution truth revolution society industrialization sovietunion china vietnam order indigenous alternative values traditions theory practice praxis westernism europe posthumanism morethanhuman rationality belief ideology nature survival extermination whiteness whitesupremacy community caucasians deathculture isms revolt leaders idols leadership activism words language canon environment sustainability learninghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:83093ba559e4/Inhumanism Rising - Benjamin H Bratton - YouTube2019-11-18T07:12:45+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsgLk5AObao
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http://longnow.org/seminars/02017/aug/07/seeing-whole-systems/
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https://trackchanges.postlight.com/design-is-mainly-about-empathy-c9d51ccb208a#.lhys0cuuy
robertogrecoComputer literacy is a euphemism for forcing human beings to stretch their thinking to understand the inner workings of application logic, rather than having software-enabled products stretch to meet people’s usual ways of thinking.
Let’s take a closer look at those three methods. Alan Cooper tackles all three in the seminal About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design.
The first one is the user’s mental model. Cooper writes that a lot of people think “electricity flows like water from the wall into the appliances through the little black tube of the electrical cord” when they plug in their vacuum or computer.
Of course, the electricity doesn’t flow like water at all. In the real world, electricity’s implementation model is much more complex. But a simpler view of electricity works just fine for most of us. It’s informative enough to help us understand, for example, that we need to cram a cord into an outlet to charge our computer.
Finally, the represented model is the way the thing ends up looking to the user. This is the part the designer spends their time working on, and the part that people will actually touch.
Here’s the secret for the designer, again from Cooper:
“The closer the represented model comes to the user’s mental model, the easier he will find the application to use and understand.”
Bravo! For a designer, that might mean spending more time talking to users, and less time digging through the API. It might mean that early design phases are better spent researching user psychology instead of tinkering with typography.
The user’s mental model, faulty though it may be, is our guiding light. If we don’t invest effort in understanding that model, it’s going to be really hard to know if our work is successful. Design is mainly about empathy.
Example time. Animation is a great tool for practicing user empathy. Animation is a user interface pattern for aligning a user’s mental model with the product’s represented model. The notifications menu in iOS 9 isn’t physically tucked up underneath the top of the device on a curtain roll, and everyone knows that. But users have mental models of tugging on objects in their world from the near the top to reveal a new temporary state.
[two GIFs (one of blinds, one of the notifications pane in iOS being opened by swiping from the top) captioned "Blinds image courtesy IKEA"]
The thing that’s special about the represented model—Cooper helped me see this—is that it’s the only part a designer can control. We can’t control the implementation model, because a good engineer will use abstractions in the codebase to make it maintainable and safe. And we can’t control our user’s mental model, since it’s shaped by their culture and dozens of other unknowable factors.
As designers, we have the power to manipulate representations. Design is the process of making our users feel awesome by representing the software in a way that meets them where they are."]]>design ux alancooper richardfeynmann teaching empathy explanation 2016 neilrenicker representation ui mentalmodels abstractionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b7900f5bf405/The Jacob’s Ladder of coding — Medium2015-12-22T21:49:22+00:00
https://medium.com/@thi.ng/the-jacob-s-ladder-of-coding-4b12477a26c1#.a72iq18n4
robertogreco“To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.” — Alan Perlis
Initially we’d only be using the machine largely to just verify our ideas prepared at home (spending the majority of the time typing in/correcting numbers from paper). Through this monastic style of working, we also learned the importance of having the right tools and balance of skills within the group and were responsible to create them ourselves in order to achieve our vision. This important lesson stayed with me throughout (maybe even became) my career so far… Most projects I worked on, especially in the past 15 years, almost exclusively relied on custom-made tooling, which was as much part of the final outcome as the main deliverable to clients. Often times it even was the main deliverable. On the other hand, I’ve also had to learn the hard way that being a largely self-sufficient generalist often is undesired in the modern workplace, which frequently still encourages narrow expertise above all else…
After a few months of convincing my parents to invest all of their saved up and invaluable West-german money to purchase a piece of “Power Without the Price” (a much beloved Atari 800XL) a year before the Wall came down in Berlin, I finally gained daily access to a computer, but was still in a similar situation as before: No more hard west money left to buy a tape nor disk drive from the Intershop, I wasn’t able to save any work (apart from creating paper copies) and so the Atari was largely kept switched on until November 10, 1989, the day after the Berlin Wall was opened and I could buy an XC-12 tape recorder. I too had to choose whether to go the usual route of working with the built-in BASIC language or stick with what I’d learned/taught myself so far, Assembly… In hindsight, am glad I chose the latter, since it proved to be far more useful and transportable knowledge, even today!"
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"Lesson learned: Language skills, natural and coded ones, are gateways, opening paths not just for more expression, but also to paths in life.
As is the case today, so it was back then: People tend to organize around specific technological interests, languages and platforms and then stick with them for a long time, for better or worse. Over the years I’ve been part of many such tool-based communities (chronologically: Asm, C, TurboPascal, Director, JS, Flash, Java, Processing, Clojure) and have somewhat turned into a nomad, not being able to ever find a true home in most of them. This might sound judgemental and negative, but really isn’t meant to and these travels through the land of languages and toolkits has given me much food for thought. Having slowly climbed up the ladder of abstraction and spent many years both with low & high level languages, has shown me how much each side of the spectrum can inform and learn from the other (and they really should do more so!). It’s an experience I can highly recommend to anyone attempting to better understand these machines some of us are working with for many hours a day and which impact so much of all our lives. So am extremely grateful to all the kind souls & learning encountered on the way!"
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"In the vastly larger open source creative computing demographic of today, the by far biggest groups are tight-knit communities around individual frameworks and languages. There is much these platforms have achieved in terms of output, increasing overall code literacy and turning thousands of people from mere computer users into authors. This is a feat not be underestimated and a Good Thing™! Yet my issue with this siloed general state of affairs is that, apart from a few notable exceptions (especially the more recent arrivals), there’s unfortunately a) not much cross-fertilizing with fundamentally different and/or new ideas in computing going on and b) over time only incremental progress is happening, business as usual, rather than a will to continuously challenge core assumptions among these largest communities about how we talk to machines and how we can do so better. I find it truly sad that many of these popular frameworks rely only on the same old imperative programming language family, philosophy and process, which has been pre-dominant and largely unchanged for the past 30+ years, and their communities also happily avoid or actively reject alternative solutions, which might require fundamental changes to their tools, but which actually could be more suitable and/or powerful to their aims and reach. Some of these platforms have become and act as institutions in their own right and as such also tend to espouse an inward looking approach & philosophy to further cement their status (as owners or pillars?) in their field. This often includes a no-skills-neccessary, we-cater-all-problems promise to their new users, with each community re-inventing the same old wheels in their own image along the way. It’s Not-Invented-Here on a community level: A reliance on insular support ecosystems, libraries & tooling is typical, reducing overall code re-use (at least between communities sharing the same underlying language) and increasing fragmentation. More often than not these platforms equate simplicity with ease (go watch Rich Hickey taking this argument eloquently apart!). The popular prioritization of no pre-requisite knowledge, super shallow learning curves and quick results eventually becomes the main obstacle to later achieve systemic changes, not just in these tools themselves, but also for (creative) coding as discipline at large. Bloatware emerges. Please do forgive if that all sounds harsh, but I simply do believe we can do better!
Every time I talk with others about this topic, I can’t help but think about Snow Crash’s idea of “Language is a virus”. I sometimes do wonder what makes us modern humans, especially those working with computing technology, so fundamentalist and brand-loyal to these often flawed platforms we happen to use? Is it really that we believe there’s no better way? Are we really always only pressed for time? Are we mostly content with Good Enough? Are we just doing what everyone else seems to be doing? Is it status anxiety, a feeling we have to use X to make a living? Are we afraid of unlearning? Is it that learning tech/coding is (still) too hard, too much of an effort, which can only be justified a few times per lifetime? For people who have been in the game long enough and maybe made a name for themselves in their community, is it pride, sentimentality or fear of becoming a complete beginner again? Is it maybe a sign that the way we teach computing and focus on concrete tools too early in order to obtain quick, unrealistically complex results, rather than fundamental (“boring”) knowledge, which is somewhat flawed? Is it our addiction to largely focus on things we can document/celebrate every minor learning step as an achievement in public? This is no stab at educators — much of this systemic behavior is driven by the sheer explosion of (too often similar) choices, demands made by students and policy makers. But I do think we should ask ourselves these questions more often."
[author's tweet: https://twitter.com/toxi/status/676578816572067840 ]]]>coding via:tealtan 2015 abstraction demoscene education creativecoding math mathematics howwelearn typography design dennocoil alanperlis johnmaeda criticalthinking analyticalthinking basic programming assembly hexcode georgedyson computing computers atari amiga commodore sinclair identity opensource insularity simplicity ease language languages community communities processing flexibility unschooling deschooling pedagogy teaching howweteach understanding bottomup topdown karstenschmidthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2b644f09fd61/The Thriving World, the Wilting World, and You — Medium2015-08-04T04:28:06+00:00
https://medium.com/@AnandWrites/the-thriving-world-the-wilting-world-and-you-209ffc24ab90
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http://shawncornally.com/wordpress/?p=4093
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https://vimeo.com/91106356
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http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2014/10/06/interpretation/
robertogrecoaaronstraupcope 2014 history storytelling time memory scottmccloud abstraction gaps memorial objects artifacts shareholdervalue motive confidence internet web purpose networks littlenets meshnetworks community communities occupy.here visibility invisibility legibility illegibility samizdat realpolitik access information ingridburrington libraries sharing online commonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:40f9b2092bf5/The Common Core Commotion2014-07-12T05:48:45+00:00
http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/articles/common-core-commotion_796394.html
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http://tinyletter.com/danhon/letters/episode-seventy-two-symptom-masquerading-as-disruption-2-the-model-is-the-modeled-labour-not-employment-superstar-ratings-here-we-go-not-swarm
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http://www.publicbooks.org/blog/humans-and-other-animals
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http://log.scifihifi.com/post/83592329128/i-suppose-i-understand-the-perspective-of-these
robertogreco I suppose I understand the perspective of these engineers, though I don’t think their fear is of abstraction. It is a fear of improper abstraction, which is often the product of trying to create an abstraction before you even understand the problem; you know sit around and talk aimlessly for a couple of hours driven development. Good abstractions start very simple and evolve overtime to become useful mental models for a particular problem.
—Abstraction - A Tool For Collective Thought [Merrick Christensen https://dayone.me/8WwzfO ]
"I’ve been wanting for awhile now to write a post about programmatic abstractions that would be very much along these lines. I think this is a really important insight that separates great abstractions that hold up over time from lousy ones that are fashionable for a season until people start to understand their limitations. Good abstractions start simply—often close to the minimal solution possible—and evolve over time in a way that is always informed by specific use cases encountered in the wild. Abstractions that start out as monolithic, seamless, end-all-be-all solutions tend to break down very quickly when exposed to anything but the textbook use cases their creators anticipated, whereas more humble efforts, judiciously managed, tend to grow more organically into true general purpose tools with real staying power."]]>buzzanderson tools abstraction 2014 small scale simple simplicity problemsolving toolmaking lms purposehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3fe8f77199d9/DrupalCon Portland 2013: DESIGN OPS: A UX WORKFLOW FOR 2013 - YouTube2013-05-26T04:27:19+00:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA7g9oAIkZg
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNwCGWXK6YU
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http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/10/liberal-education-stewardship-and-the-cosmopolitan-temptation/
robertogrecoliberaleducation democracy liberalarts 2009 via:randallszott cosmopolitanism stewardship gratitude love responsibility civilization sustainability humanism attention tocqueville self-control self-government local slow small abstraction justice charity beauty global glocalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d360505caa62/Dr. Jeannette Wing | Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators2013-02-26T23:51:52+00:00
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail1844.html
robertogrecopodcasts tolisten jeannettewing computationalthinking problemsolving algorithms datastructures 2007 abstraction refactoring compsci thinkinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:52f725f0b94a/Stéphane Mallarmé | HiLobrow2013-02-26T23:49:24+00:00
http://hilobrow.com/2011/03/18/stephane-mallarme/
robertogrecoedgardegas degas mallarmé stéphanemallarmé words language french abstraction timcarmody poetry painting 2011https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:af9d71634f8b/Time & Eternity2012-09-20T10:18:31+00:00
http://pvtridvs.net/pool/miscbooks/Alan_Watts_-_Time_&_Eternity.htm
robertogrecoplans planning symbols words philosophy speed energy motion hurry attention slow children sovietunion posterity hereandnow present abstraction abstract presence reality capitalism communism alanwatts education eternity timehttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:58f2b28e56a2/Badges: talking at cross purposes? ~ Stephen's Web2012-04-08T19:32:25+00:00
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=57699
robertogreco2012 abstraction badges dougbelshaw terrywassall davecormier criticalthinking efficiency simplicity complexity patterns patternrecognition stephendowneshttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1500726f868e/A Reason for Everything . . . — Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers2012-02-25T23:14:01+00:00
http://imprint.printmag.com/daily-heller/a-reason-for-everything/
robertogrecomeaningmaking meaning abstraction living life books stevenheller 2012 writing listening noticing attention imagination reality robertbringhurst reading via:tealtanhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:95783e1cbcb0/Benedikt Groß – Metrography – London Tube Map to large scale collective mental map2012-02-24T20:54:31+00:00
http://www.looksgood.de/log/2012/02/metrography-london-tube-map-to-large-scale-collective-mental-map/
robertogrecodeformation osm openstreetmap SAX scriptographer maperitive noamtoran bertrandclerc benediktgroß landmarks gps cities transportation perception collectiverepresentation abstraction mentalmaps distortion geography via:mayonissen metrography londontube processing mapping maps londonhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2a871e86ae4c/AIGA | Video: Jonathan Harris [Cold + Bold]2011-08-24T11:25:56+00:00
http://www.aiga.org/video-gain-2010-harris/
robertogrecodesign art jonathanharris storytelling coding coldness 2010 thewhy purpose meaning meaningfulness human digital life empathy programming depression glvo relationships feelings emotions rationality determinism problemsolving detachment expression web internet abstraction humanity control learning resistance resistanceofthemedium process cold+bold identity individuality diversity outcomes scale sociopaths jaronlanier culture behavior introspection self-reflection time computation howweworkhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5bac6cbc034e/electronic computation is invisible: maeda at RISD (tecznotes) {best to read the whole thing, and also the Natalia Ilyin post]2011-04-10T19:15:54+00:00
http://mike.teczno.com/notes/maeda-RISD.html
robertogrecojohnmaeda michalmigurski risd 2011 handsoff leadership management disconnect medialab mit engineering confusion experimentation paulrand computers computation art electroniccomputation invisibility reality collapsingofreality administration learning change abstraction inpenetrability technology mitmedialabhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9b54b512c228/Eide Neurolearning Blog: Simpler is Better: Avoiding the TMI Trap2010-08-02T02:01:16+00:00
http://eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/simpler-is-better-avoiding-tmi-trap.html
robertogrecosimplification abstraction displays design information processing filtering sensemaking maps mapping tmi realism patternrecognition patterns simplicity researchhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1301b2b19a43/Near Future Laboratory » And the time it takes to make them is the time taken to mean it.2010-07-27T15:06:02+00:00
http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2010/07/27/and-the-time-it-takes-to-make-them-is-the-time-taken-to-mean-it/
robertogrecosculrpture process toshare topost julianbleecker martinpuryear davidlevistrauss creation time processoverproduct productasindicationofprocess outcomes labor craft representation abstraction sculpture craftsmanshiphttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:588db991bd33/Frank Chimero - "In many ways the work of a critic is easy."2010-07-09T19:17:03+00:00
http://blog.frankchimero.com/post/787072716/in-many-ways-the-work-of-a-critic-is-easy-we-risk
robertogrecofrankchimero pixar criticism abstraction ratatouille film filmmaking bradbirdhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8d585cde3ecf/Dangerously Irrelevant: Test score burrito2009-02-21T06:29:21+00:00
http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/02/test-score-burrito.html
robertogrecothegameofschool schools education learning authenticity curiosity incentives creativity tcsnmy robertfried abstraction success pseudo-goals academics unschooling deschooling lcproject cv testing academictreadmillhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b5780752d362/Rice University Webcasts: President's Lecture: Robert Irwin on Abstraction2008-09-06T02:35:03+00:00
http://webcast.rice.edu/webcast.php?action=details&event=301
robertogrecorobertirwin architecture space abstraction art riceuniversityhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f51f7a56bd52/Map–territory relation - Wikipedia2008-08-30T05:22:55+00:00
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation
robertogrecoabstraction conceptualization perception philosophy representationhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:379b7d19d9a8/Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: abstract pointillist2008-05-06T14:13:03+00:00
http://antimega.textdriven.com/antimega/2008/05/05/abstract-pointillist
robertogrecoabstraction keynote powerpoint presentations slides statistics chrisheathcotehttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f611843cd49e/wrapping up 2007 (28 December 2007, Interconnected)2007-12-29T01:49:57+00:00
http://interconnected.org/home/2007/12/28/wrapping_up_2007
robertogrecosemanticweb socialsoftware markets structures mattwebb lcproject marketing gamechanging social web2.0 trends thinking theory technology groups future organizations simplicity coding science computers systems collapse institutions society change reform deschooling staffordbeer complexity environment evolution flocking cars transportation rfid gps physics astronomy astrophysics nanotechnology ultrastablesystems progress phenotropics search microformats patterns drugs advertising browser web internet thermodynamics freemarkets capitalism behavior economics modeling identity reputation sharing networks networking socialnetworks socialnetworking self human memory forgetting play flickr webdev development webdesign experience ux flow iphoto interaction design radio typologies words motivation risk abstraction schooling schools 2007 browsershttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c177a410eb88/Barney's rubble | Art & Architecture | Guardian Unlimited Arts2007-09-21T08:30:10+00:00
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2172990,00.html
robertogrecoart matthewbarney us abstract abstraction jacksonpollockhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9e73f75d9625/