Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco ‘I study at an exclusive US college. We can’t drink, use wi-fi or leave during term’ 2026-03-28T22:46:07+00:00 https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/deep-springs-college-california-hzhx5bfc0 robertogreco deepspringscollege 2026 rubylarocca education colleges universities highereducation highered meaning meaningmaking howweread internet web online offline attention books reading constraints socialmedia distraction ai artificialintelligence microcolleges https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e7bdaa4e4764/ What I found in one of the tiniest languages | Psyche Notes to Self 2025-11-03T21:53:29+00:00 https://psyche.co/notes-to-self/what-i-found-when-i-played-with-a-tiny-invented-language robertogrecolanguage languages small 2025 hannahkim communication constraints https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:64441ecb0006/ Where’s the AI design renaissance? 2025-10-16T05:28:29+00:00 https://www.learnui.design/blog/wheres-the-ai-design-renaissance.html robertogreco erikkennedy ai artificialintelligence 2025 uptonsinclair design process howwework midjourney 2022 aihype productivity aibubble vibecoding coding mikejudge github interestrates covid-19 pandemic coronavirus overhiring chatbots humanism human humans ui blandness llms deeplearning generativeai slop aislop constraints genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:912bf048e92c/ Grave Unseriousness: Experimenting with Oulipo Constraints | The Poetry Foundation 2025-07-13T20:38:39+00:00 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/162152/grave-unseriousness-experimenting-with-oulipo-constraints robertogreco2024 oulipo writing constraints gabrieldenisefrank ruthstone poetry italocalvino raymoondqueneau invisiblecities françoislelionnais georgesperec daniellevinbecker philipterry imagination creativity howwewrite levinbecker method harrymathews newyorkschool classideas https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b3d5ac6f1164/ Conditional Design - Conditional Design 2024-02-14T20:02:57+00:00 https://conditionaldesign.org/manifesto/ robertogreco lunamaurer edopaulus jonathanpuckey roelwouters manifestos design process art collaboration rules constraints difference randomness howwework form formations nature society via:daniellucas relationships change time patterns objectivity logic https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3879e5be611a/ He Makes Watches by Hand in China - The New York Times 2024-01-19T17:52:52+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/18/fashion/watches-logan-kuan-rao-china.html robertogreco logankuanrao watches watchmaking china 2024 autodidacts davifbelcher constraints madeinchina autodidactism self-taught georgedaniels https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5878cd0a516f/ A Website Can Be A Poem w/ Chia - USURPATOR 2023-08-22T22:31:52+00:00 https://usurpatormag.com/A-Website-Can-Be-A-Poem-w-Chia robertogreco usurpator 2023 chiaamisola web online websites webdesign poetry form community internet spaces howweread howwewrite language writing readwriteweb design platforms homegrown attention interruption slow small ambient experience love loving time digital virtual affordances development archives art poeticomputing computing philippines technology sanfrancisco place space agency subversion liberation labor ai artificialintelligence technosolutionism callcenters exploitation outsourcing activism organizing socialmedia sound youtube comments beauty bookmarking archiving collections collecting saving self-preservation preservation stewardship offline collectivism interdependence folkarchives libraries institutions grassroots knowledge tools onlinetoolkit education howwelearn search importance meaning meaningmaking worthiness communities power mutualaid praxis decay digitaldecay data linkrot ownership memory records artifacts gathering belatedness identity performance performativity archiveofonesown tags tagging taxono https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f3b9ce37b7ab/ Personal Machines and Portable Worlds - Christopher Butler 2023-07-09T19:58:31+00:00 https://www.chrbutler.com/personal-machines-and-portable-worlds robertogreco“My book is so much about how technology dictates culture. The devices that we use aren’t just accessories to culture or windows that we consume things through; they are collaborators, gateways, and molds…the idea of a personal computer had to be invented, manufactured, and marketed. We had to imagine computers as personal machines.” This is an important point. We could live in a world where computing is a public works — where terminals to central processing work like telephones used to. You can pick them up or put them down, but nothing inside of them is yours. But we don’t live in that world. As soon as the first computer booted up in the first home, the computer became a personal object. And when an object becomes personal, it is difficult to leave it behind. We want it with us. Perhaps that one thing — a simple desire for a personal machine — set us on the course we have followed since. Not Moore’s Law, not Capitalism, but personhood. Later, in the same post, Chayka writes of the Palm Pilot — an early attempt at portable computing — that, despite it not providing much in the way of “fun” features for a kid, there was still an “ineffable appeal to holding a gateway to a digital world in your hand.” A world. There’s that word again. Why a world? There is a sense of dimensional transcendence to computers. As C.S. Lewis wrote of the wardrobe, “It’s inside is bigger than its outside.” In the early days of mobile computing, it was hard to not compare the capaciousness of a computer you could carry with you to something like a book. Of both you could say their insides were bigger than their outsides, but when it came to information, you’d have to settle for figurative capaciousness in a book; their actual contents are literally cover to cover. A digital machine’s contents are an entirely different thing. In the time of the Palm Pilot, a tiny door to a vast digital world was more powerful as an idea than a tool. The digital world just wasn’t as big back then as it is now. But to Chayka’s first point, we built the digital world using these little devices that didn’t do very much. We made it worth the journey. And meanwhile, the object was our companion, and inside was a tiny, personal digital world — our notes, our messages, our few digital texts. It was not much, but it was ours." ... "Many of the examples I’ve looked at so far align with my ideas of what makes a machine personal because they were designed with limitations imposed upon them, and many of the examples I’ve discussed that no longer feel personal have been designed to surpass those limitations. If machines were designed to be more personal, we’d have very different machines. Sometimes it feels like it is simply a matter of whether a machine is connected to the internet or not. But of course it’s more than that. It’s as much about what we do with our machines as it is about what they were designed to do. I think we can still experience the personal machine by choosing to experience a machine that way. In a way, the continued popularity of vinyl is a good example of this. For the same price as a single record, you can get several months of access to more music than you could ever hear in that time. Still, some people choose records over digital files. It’s too easy to dismiss this as an affectation. It’s a choice to experience music in a particular way. It’s also a choice of a personal machine — a record player rather than a phone. One benefit of personal technology reaching the maturity it has is the abundance of choices. It may seem like you must use an iPhone — perhaps everyone you know and care about is group messaging with iMessage — but you can choose something else. Every choice has benefits and costs. Ten years ago, I chose to leave Facebook. The benefits were many; the costs were not having easy access to where people I cared about shared information I wanted to know. A few years ago, I stopped using an e-reader — I had used a Kindle, and then a Kobo, both great machines. The cost was no longer being able to send articles from the web to my machine and reading them, as well as books, in bed. The benefit was not having too many choices in front of me when I just want to read one thing. I went back to the printed book. You could say that’s as much of an affectation in 2023 as playing a vinyl record. Maybe. But it’s a choice. I haven’t owned a laptop for many years. My primary machine is a Mac Mini set up in my home office. The cost is I can’t work from my couch or the local coffee shop. The benefit is I have some separation in my life between work and not work. For me, these choices turn using the same machines everyone uses into a more personal experience." ... "I also notice that when I look at these older machines and the old media they use, I often find myself feeling like I’m looking at a door to a world. I look at a book — there’s a world. Every playable disc in our house — each a world. Once you become accustomed to worldspotting, you can see them in anything. Every object is a world. In the World; of the Worlds Perhaps the days of personal machines are over. Maybe the complexities that Mau and his cohort wrote about are not safely reducible. Maybe we can’t decomplexify the world of things. Maybe. And if we can, I wouldn’t dare imagine it could happen quickly. But if we can, where do we start? What do we look at? What do we use again, despite there being sleeker, faster, frictionless options available? What limits do we embrace so that we can re-balance the human with the machine? I have spent the last few years slowly disconnecting in various ways. I’ve chosen to use things that only do a part of what readily available alternatives do and more. I’ve chosen to stop using some things altogether. I have found that these choices have enhanced my experiences because they’ve supported true insight; they’ve helped me be more aware of what I’m doing, why I’m doing it, and who I am becoming. I have found that they change the world because they change my world. Jung said that in each of us is another. I think that in each of us is another world. A good personal machine reveals that world and helps us shape it."]]> christopherbutler whatisacomputer porability computers computing objects 2023 personal personalmachines machines gadgets communication expression imagination toys technology laptops smartphones phones purpose utility entertainment infinitude devices audiencesofone portals identity exploration legendofzelda zelda worldbuilding brucemau massivechange complexity institutewithoutboundaries potential thoreau simplicity human humans balance invention creation distraction attention waste want voyeurism kylechayka personhood palmpilot capitalism mooreslaw worlds companions maremecum vademecum designfiction sciencefiction scifi projectara robinsloan marydoriarussell quantumleap limitations constraints choice kindle kobo iphone tradeoffs limits facebook disconnecting carljung jung https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8225eb3c6c52/ Children and Technology - by L. M. Sacasas 2023-06-15T21:57:22+00:00 https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/children-and-technology robertogreco lmsacasas education children 2020 childhood technology wonder neilpostman consumption consumerism conviviality ivanillich albertborgmann storytelling stories poetry teaching howweteach parenting resistance mediation experimentation limits limitations constraints https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:83607cbbf7c0/ People are using Red Dead Redemption 2 to hold conference calls | Rock Paper Shotgun 2023-03-22T01:57:54+00:00 https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/how-to-conference-call-with-red-dead-redemption-2 robertogrecoZoom sucks, we started having editorial meetings in Red Dead Redemption instead. It's nice to sit at the campfire and discuss projects, with the wolves howling out in the night — Viviane Schwarz (@vivschwarz) May 16, 2020 "Mostly we were just having a really crap time," said Viv when I spoke to them, about their meeting life before Cowboys. "We were having to deal with all those Zoom and Skype meetings and emails and phone calls... and we were just feeling worse and worse and more annoyed all the time." Minecraft was considered, apparently, but people tended to just wander off and start digging, or dumping gravel on the meeting table, "so picking the most ludicrous game to meet in seemed good." But then, as it turned out, it wasn't quite as ridiculous as expected. "The thing is," Viv explained, "the Cowboys just look right when they're sitting around the campfire? They look like they're in a meeting: scratching noses and frowning, and occasionally gesturing." Viv's colleagues have taken some steps to boost their immersion in the world of Cowboy conferencing, and work around the limitations of the game at the same time. "We keep trying to have coffee breaks, because it feels right - and because if you don't do anything you get kicked off the server for idling. So we order a load of coffee in, and keep brewing it to unidle". Apparently, the posse are considering getting a stew pot next, "because it feels kinda rude that we can't share snacks", but doing so will involve Viv becoming a trader, and they're a bit worried that doing so will make the camp too busy. Etiquette, too, is important. It's polite to wash your face before a Cowboy meeting, of course, "as sometimes you can be really caked in blood and dirt, and not realise". And that's just not a professional look. Participants should also make liberal use of emotes. Viv, for example, sometimes opens up RDR2's weapon catalogue when they're reading a shared document IRL, because it makes it look like their Cowboy is thoughtfully studying it in-game. It's an expensive tactic, since if they don't order anything, their Cowboy just closes the catalogue and leaves the table, and it's pretty hard to negotiate purchasing while reading a document at the same time - but it's almost worth it for the realism. An added perk to holding meetings in Cowboy space, Viv revealed, "is that when you agree that the meeting is over, you can all jump on your horses and do crime or justice, which is a lot less awkward than everyone smiling at the camera while they're trying to sign off". Not only that, but if colleagues are successful in the post-meeting rampage, they might just get to spend the next meeting sitting in nice mismatched chairs by the campfire, rather than having to squat on their haunches in the dirt. "Also, the landscape is amazing, so you can walk and talk, and if some other posse attacks they only get five minutes to fight you. So it's in effect a tea break, except you don't have to pretend to make tea, or agree when it happens." Nevertheless, RDR2 is not without its drawbacks as a piece of conferencing software. And while it may avoid the ritualistic solving of minor audio and connection problems that attends the start of most conventional video calls, it comes with its own set of technical idiosyncrasies, as Viv's tweets attest:
"Can you parlay these people, they keep hogtying me" "Where did you spawn?" "Am I not on the map?" "You're miles away... Let me just kick you out from to the posse and invite you again" — Viviane Schwarz (@vivschwarz) May 16, 2020
And then there are the glitches. The main problem encountered, apparently, is that the meeting table sometimes doesn't exist for everyone. Occasionally, the whole camp will vanish, so along with the fire, leaving everyone talking away in the dark until it reappears. And if someone gets dropped out of the posse and returns, they can't sit down for the remainder of the discussion. Oh, and of course, there's the fact that "sit on the ground" is mapped to the same control as "strangle the nearest person", which can apparently lead to some pretty robust brainstorming sessions. "It’s the same glitches as usual," Viv said, "only, they're funnier when you're talking about business about the same time. Like, you fall off a cliff, and your horse falls on your head and kills you, after which you respawn elsewhere. But your body and horse haven't disappeared. So your colleague gets distracted, silently wondering whether they should revive your horse, and trying to figure out whose body lies crushed beneath it, and all the while you're walking back from miles away, carrying on about the project." But perhaps the eeriest presence in the world of business cowboys is Cripps, the ever-present NPC in charge of organising and maintaining the player's camp. "We thought it would be nicer to meet at the campfire rather than in a saloon, as we just liked being outdoors for a change", Viv lamented. "But we forgot that this would mean Cripps continually interjecting with stories about his life". Apparently, Viv's posse have had to work hard not to be distracted by his constant mouth-harp playing, which becomes particularly challenging when he begins to play more and more slowly. "My thoughts just slow down. I have to sit with my back to him or else the mouth harp drives me nuts," Viv said. Sometimes, needless to say, Cripps disappears, but the sound of his mouth harp continues to haunt the camp. Viv is currently looking into whether you can silence the grim musician by continuing to trade with him, but fears that this wouldn't help anyone else in the posse, for whom the infernal jam would continue unabated. "I noticed it is possible for him to become invisible to team members, meaning they can then stand on him, while in their own world they are standing on the ground," Viv explained, running me through their logic in deducing the rules governing this eldritch presence. "But to be honest, he's a really good stand-in for the distractions we would have when meeting in a cafe usually, and he can be useful in breaking things up when we've lost focus." The final drawback of the virtual campfire as a meeting venue is a significant one, unfortunately. You see, to get to a point where you can invite friends into a posse, and have a camp to meet at, you've got to go through the intro quests to Red Dead Online, which are unskippable, relatively dull, and time-consuming. It can take an hour or more for a Cowboy to progress through this mandatory prologue. "Especially," said Viv, "if the people you get paired up with for staff training decide to sabotage your horse wrangling". We did discuss how fun and weird it would be if Rockstar opened up business-only servers for commercially-minded Cowboys. There's certainly a demand for it, if the interest shown by companies in the wake of Viv's tweets going big is to be believed. But we'd only floated the idea for a few minutes when we both realised how quickly the idea would sour: the whole endeavour would get bogged down in dull, intricate rules, and as Viv pointed out "it might technically be gentrification". Thinking about it, I was reminded suddenly of Deadwood, the best show ever on telly, and Al Swearengen's increasing worries over the encroachment of civilisation - somehow, then, its use as a venue for meetings has made RDR2 more thematically potent as a Western. Perhaps, then, this West is best left wild? "I mean... it isn't a good game for an uninterrupted meeting," concluded Viv. "Or even... a meeting... really. But it still beats Zoom.""]]> natecrowley 2023 reddeadredemption reddeadredemption2 videogames zoom meetings rdr2 vivianeschwarz constraints howwework simulation vivschwarz https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c02d5c3cc478/ Two Things that Would Fix Twitter - YouTube 2022-11-29T01:00:57+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJHf_SwNurY robertogreco hasanminhaj marquesbrownlee 2022 twitter socialmedia behavior negativity reddit youtube scale commenting retweets identity anonymity whistleblowers technology humors wikipedia librarians ai dall-e trust elonmusk artificialintelligence algorithms dataextraction data privacy finitude infinity mortality risk life living art beauty emotions relationships meaning meaningmaking reality realism limitations constraints humanity humanness politics publicpolicy internet online web seo advertising contentcreation views attention generations constructivecriticism goodfaith badfaith engagement vulnerability marketing sensationalism spectacle incentives extremism media engineering science medicine problemsolving opinions techmedia power interviews trevornoah jonstewart softballinterviews interviewing collateraldamage finance society responsibility security https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:24913d77115d/ How Chile's Socialists Won - YouTube 2022-03-10T02:15:00+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQs-J3houJA robertogreco chile history 1973 1980 1990 constitution salvadorallende pinochet gabrielboric politics policy chicagoboys neoliberalism education charterschools penguinrevolution change protest strikes activism resistance healthcare water demonstrations 2011 2006 universities highereducation highered military constraints 2019 2022 2020 2021 constitutionalconvention pensions utilities socialmovements housing patriarchy violence law legal sebastiánpiñera indigenous indigeneity gender democracy apruebodignidad joséantoniokast dictatorship mayafernández camilavallejo socialism structuralchange left leftists coup latinamerica us richardnixon alejandraarriaza deregulation privatization ronaldreagan margaretthatcher 1925 socialwelfare government governance carolinapérezdattari markets capitalism gdp chileanmiracle inequality wealth 1981 nationalsecurity power 1988 patricioaylwin michellebachelet revoluciónpingüina indignados ows occupywallstreet arabspring pabloabufom 2013 congress centrists centristcoalition https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:abfb3412eebe/ This Filmmaker Made a Fantasy Epic With No Major Studio Support 2020-09-02T15:50:39+00:00 https://nofilmschool.com/2020/05/wanting-mare-fantasy-universe robertogreco filmmaking diy 2020 micahvanhove film nicholasashebateman thewantingmare constraints via:justinpickard https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:15d954f9641c/ Alec Resnick on Twitter: “OK, via prompt by @vgr, 1 like = 1 opinion about unschooling” 2019-12-15T23:54:10+00:00 https://twitter.com/aresnick/status/1206336018410082305 robertogreco43. Continuing the environmental analogy: Unschooling would do well to find its Alice Waters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Waters — What is its Chez Panisse? What is the highest practice of it which is unimpeachable, even if it is upmarket and unreplicable? 45. Learning experiences involve tools/materials, learners, and facilitators. We are limited by our tools and materials. Many are designed for school. Funding the creation of new tools and materials generally requires targeting schools as your customer. This is unsolved. 46. An underappreciated question for theories of change which assume you can work forward from school as it exists: If culture eats strategy for breakfast, and if many of the fundamental, sector-wide issues in schooling are cultural, what form should your answer to that take? 47. A basic human capital challenge facing both unschooling and schooling: For youth to [learn to think critically, develop and pursue their own projects, whatever], they need to see people doing that. How do you define adults’ role as _both_ facilitators and investigators? 48. One of the most exciting shifts now possible (given the nature of remote knowledge work) is the economic emancipation of youth aged 14–18. Small steps toward this represent radical threats for traditional educational establishments. 49. A big strategic obstacle facing unschooling is that school can always shift internal structures to enable ongoing rent-seeking on your education. So you should expect (as you see), more options for flexible “school” experiences which don’t threaten the institution overall. 50. Just as we have postmortems and sunsets of companies and their strategies, we need the same for educational thinkers and initiatives. The arc of work by someone like John Holt can tell us a lot about the dangers and obstacles for reformers, these remain unarticulated. 51. Whatever your flavor of reform, one of the most valuable distinctions to make is between the political question of who should control youth’s experience how, and the technical question of how to support learning. Incumbents benefit from their conflation. 52. In the near-term, unschooling will be a force for increased socioeconomic and racial stratification. Whether it will be so in the long term is a question of institutions. This makes unschooling’s failure to engage with institutional politics all the more serious. 53. One of the most radical exogenous events which could unfold for unschooling (and many of the caring professions) is the development of a UBI and UBI-like systems. 54. There are many reasons you see “alternatives” flourish in K5, to a lesser extent 6–8, and not at all in 9–12. The proximity of social/economic realities of adulthood. Without changing this, those constraints will always backpropagate through the ghost of high school future. 55. In searching for an alternative identity, unschooling groups have a lot to learn from other groups which are quite narrow but seen as broadly rigorous (Iowa Writers Workshop, MIT Media Lab, Harvard Law School). 56. One of the core things unschooling [often] gets right is a set of advantages taken for granted by every upper-middle class family: a small set of people who know you well, are invested in your success, and can responsively allocate resources on the behalf of your development. 57. Another conceptual challenge for unschooling: Conceptually, what is the difference between a great book and a great lecture? How would you criticize a lecture without resorting to stereotypes of bad lectures? Or coercive elements? 58. Oftentimes, it is hard or impossible to get interested in things which are not in your environment. To the extent that unschooling focuses on the absence of structure, it also fails to grapple with the question of how to think about fertilizing youth’s soil. [NB From this thread so far, it may sound like I'm just dumping on unschooling. If so, this is merely the narcissism of small differences: I have so much hope for alternative approaches, I wish their proponents tackled these bigger questions more seriously and aggressively!] 59. One of the greatest opportunities facing various, self-selected communities of “alternative” education is to use their access to time with youth and adults as the foundation for an organization analogous to the Mayo Clinic or Media Lab or Xerox PARC. 60. One of the most radical requirements of taking unschooling seriously is defining a social life/role for youth distinct from their identity as students. The dramatic expansion of the ease and possibility of this when you can be Very Online™️ is a tremendous opportunity. 61. One of the deeper things Seymour Papert ever said was that you can’t think about thinking without thinking about thinking about something. Strategically, this suggests that unschooling might do better to tackle supremacy topic by topic, tool by tool. 62. Significant portions of unschooling and homeschooling are not about alternative pedagogies. They are about avoiding toxic environments, securing needed special education services, and similar. 63. One of the beautiful things about the idea of “public” education is its availability to everyone. Minority needs (special education, English Language Learners, etc.) play an outsized role in school bureaucracy. Unschooling has ~ no answer to these questions currently. 64. One of the most important consequences of a constitutional guarantee of freedom of education would be to, over time, force the government to unbundle funding and services for these minority needs. 65. This is the most exciting/frustrating time to be alive if you’re interested in the future of learning. The gap between novices and real, intellectual work is shrinking at an unprecedented rate. There are lifetimes of work to be had mining the progress of the past decade. 66. Early College High School is a model for what rent-seeking will look like as alternatives push their way into school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_college_high_school Its insight and reform is literally _send youth to less high school_. And they managed to get high schools to own it! 67. [For the wealthy,] the equivalent on the consumer side will look increasingly like the relationship between, say, Stanford and YC. Consumers will secure intangible cultural capital through institutional affiliation, and someone else will take on human capital. 68. Some branding alternatives for unschooling (if it is really about self-directed learning and removing school’s structures): PhD, MFA, apprenticeship, football team, contemplative practice. All of these have less brand liability than unschooling. Why stick with it? 69. One of the scariest suspicions of my own beliefs (as they align with unschooling) is that perhaps our relationship to institutions is just as fundamental, immovable, and worth just working forward from as our relationship to any other tribe. 70. Self-direction is powerful. It leaves largely unanswered questions of critique and quality. To the extent excellence emerges from environments of intense critique and aspirations to excellence, neither school nor unschooling have coherent answers to this cultural question. 71. One of the most powerful corollaries of erasing the line between learning/living is that you realize that novices are often doing the same _kind_ of intellectual work as professionals, just less effectively. Unschooling should leverage this opportunity for apprenticeship. 72. The biggest problem in unschooling is access to time with youth + money to spend it well. The second biggest is access to adults who can create intellectually rich/rigorous environments for youth. The third biggest is access to great tools and materials to support work. 73. A common question in confronting unschooling and similar is, “But what if they [don't want to, are bored, don't know what they're interested in, etc.]?” One of unschooling’s great integrities is pointing out that school has approximately no answer to this question either. 74. A categorical question unschooling must answer if it is to ever become mainstream: Left to their own devices, under what conditions can/should a young person be able to choose an “inferior” educational product or experience? Technocrats will say “None”, purists “Any”. 75. Every educational innovation is “experimenting” on youth, nearly nothing is validated with anything approaching the rigor or seriousness that you expect of any other good or service in the public sector. 76. One of the biggest reasons this is not a problem in practice is because youth are remarkably robust. This is as an advantage of this sector’s! Very little of what systems do or don’t has an outsized effect. Class remains the strongest predictor. [referencing 74] 77. People’s concerns about the “socialization” of unschooled youth are disconnected from reality. One of the best things unschooling could do would be to cement its position as often a socially and emotionally healthier pathway to reframe its work as a public health issue. 78. This is a photograph from the original Sudbury Valley School a few years ago. https://sudburyvalley.org It is the rules for operating the microwave. Democratic/free-schools make the same mistake as those suggesting that everyone need to re-discover calculus for themselves. 79. In contrast, this is a photograph from a Boston Public School. Plenty of people choose unschooling or free schooling or democratic schooling over public school because of nothing other than what the semiotics of this juxtaposition imply. [compared to 78] 80. Neither schooling nor unschooling will play a significant role in the liberal goals of equalizing society. School will always play handmaiden to the structure of labor and capital. The most radical efforts look for ways to leverage this fact. 81. Understandably, unschooling is full of people with a fraught relationship to school. Many in school look down on them (either irrelevant bc they are wealthy or irrelevant bc they secretly think failure in school makes you a failure). This is a serious strategic challenge. 82. In my lifetime, ~free college will become a reality in the United States. This will be an enormous opportunity for those interested in unschooling. They will not take this opportunity; industry will. And so industry will define the future of “alternative” education. 83. One of the most persistent sociological effects in education research is that poor youth define “good” students by obedience/work ethic while rich do so by creativity/intelligence. Changing this is one of the most politically radical projects unschooling could tackle. 84. Structure is not coercion. Just because something is hard does not mean it is rigorous. Just because something isn’t fun doesn’t mean its coercive. These distinctions matter, and both school and unschooling confuse them to no end. 85. As unhealthy as they can be, one of the better facets of, say, hustle culture or creative self-help is the embrace of meaningful work + fulfillment as hard + challenging. Progressive education (incl. unschooling) must get beyond handwaving about how to support this well. 86. The first thing people did w/ the movie camera was make films of plays. We’ve made online, distributed classes. Unschooling could be a *small* market for those exploring meaningful, creative applications of technology with youth. But it won’t be VC scale in the next 20y. 87. Nintendo spends more on R&D than the NSF spends on education research each year. These alternative sources of capital are long frustrated with the irrelevance of their results to traditional school. Unschooling, homeschooling, and similar could be real partners for them. 88. Graduate schools of education don’t investigate homeschooling and unschooling (or better yet, run their own educational environments) because (a) their clientele are traditional schools, and (b) they cannot afford the brand risk of failing. Business model is destiny. 89. One of the signs of a healthy professional and intellectual community is self-critique and reflection. I may not be in the community enough to know, but as a small, alternative perspective, unschooling has yet to muster this capacity. 90. At some point, industries w/ a surplus of inbound talent will take the already nearly-formalized structure of tech internships to their logical conclusion and begin charging tuition. One of the best things unschooling could do is offer case management around these paths. 91. One of the silliest illusions education reformers (including unschooling) labors under is that improved results will persuade the system to do anything. 92. In many other domains, 10x improvement is possible. In education, 10x improvement is ~ impossible on time or cost for reasons of human development. This has serious ramifications for the challenges of organizational change, theory of change, funding innovation, and similar. 93. Something unschooling gets right is that it frames its work as a movement and school of thought. Too much change these days is framed in terms of individual entrants, products, and technologies. The staying power of incumbents requires institutional time scales. 94. Something unschooling gets wrong, having gotten its timescales right, is its complete lack of any [critical] sense of history. There are no consensus explanations for the arc of unschooling’s success or lack thereof. This is a crazy situation for a reform movement. 95. The @recursecenter is one of the most serious and thoughtful efforts in (influenced by?) unschooling I know of. As practitioners, they have more to say about the practicalities of these issues than 90% of the people I meet. 96. Unschooling has many unknown allies in other disciplines and domains. The refusal, by and large, to engage the academy or its output means there are significant, low-hanging fruit to seize to bring to unschooling. This will require making epistemology and psychology allies. 97. Much as great management and communication is often the limiting reagent on a team, great management and mentorship is often the limiting reagent in human development. Pedagogy has nearly no language for this. Most differences in efficacy therefore go unexplained. 98. From the POV of theory of change, one of the most challenging aspects of beginning work w/ marginal communities is that you actually bolster and improve the position of the incumbent. “Disruptive” innovation moving upmarket requires feedback loops which don’t exist. 99. Confidence is socially constructed, and represents a significant part of what forms the cultural capital of top tier schools and similar. Unschooling would do well to establish and build counter-narratives around artifacts like this https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ng5qzH39nyg 100. Despite all of these challenges, I believe that inventing the future of learning is among the most exciting and impactful work anyone can do. It beats the constraints of industry and artifice of the academy. Unschooling would do well to leverage this to attract talent. OK that’s 100. I have no original ideas. If you found anything in this thread interesting, please take the time to review, in detail, the work of thinkers like Holt, Papert, and Dewey. None have the answer, but they and others have done incredible work on these questions. For those interested, a few starting points: Dewey’s “My Pedagogic Creed” http://dewey.pragmatism.org/creed.htm Papert’s _Mindstorms_ http://mindstorms.media.mit.edu Illich’s Deschooling Society http://davidtinapple.com/illich/1970_deschooling.html Holt’s How Children {Learn; Fail} https://amazon.com/dp/B074MGJ457 https://amazon.com/dp/0201484021 Please feel free to DM me or reach out to alec@powderhouse.org if you’d like to chat about any of this! Thanks @vgr for the prompt!“]]> unschooling alecresnick education learning deschooling legibility credentials charterschools howwelearn pedagogy howweteach schools schooling society work chezpaniesse local alicewatters learningecologies environment rahcelcarson resources tools organization organizing montessori reggioemilia portfolios formal informal informallearning mastery labor homeschool waldorf johndewey history psychology humandevelopment skills coercion alternative altedu greatbooks networks networking class canon classism inequality universalbasicincome ubi constraints economics race institutions flexibility disciplines specialization exposure edg srg mitmedialab ledialab xeroxparc access identity opportunity edtech branding culture culturalcapital rent-seeking bureaucracy sudburyschools sudburyvalleyschools reality social technocrats publicschools publicgood apprenticeships mentoring publicgoods medialab https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:997cf2837970/ Going Home with Wendell Berry | The New Yorker 2019-07-16T02:27:01+00:00 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/going-home-with-wendell-berry robertogreco via:anne wendellberry rural slow small empathy kindness georgesaunders relationships neighbors amish care caring maintenance human-animalrelations human-animalrelationships culture farming agriculture local locality place trees history multispecies morethanhuman language restorativejustice justice climatejustice socialjustice johnlukacs environment sustainability kentucky land immigration labor work gender ownership collectivism conversation lancieclippinger god faith religion christianity submission amandapetrusich individualism stewardship limits constraints memory robertburns kafka capitalism corporations life living provincialism seamusheaney patrickkavanagh animals cows freedom limitlessness choice happiness davidkline thomasmerton service maurytilleen crops us donaldtrump adlaistevenson ezrataftbenson politics conservation robertfrost pleasure writing andycatlett howwewrite education nature adhd wonder schools schooling experience experientiallearning place-based hereandnow presence learning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8fe586521de3/ Laurel Schwulst, "Blogging in Motion" - YouTube 2019-05-07T22:19:07+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiHKbeDOXas robertogreco laurelschwulst 2019 decentralization p2p web webdesign blogging movement travel listening attention self-reflection howwewrite writing walking nyc beakerbrowser creativity pokemon pokemonmoon online offline internet decentralizedweb dat p2ppublishing p2pweb distributed webdev stillness infooverload ubiquitous computing internetofthings casygollan calm calmtechnology zoominginandout electricity technology copying slow small johnseelybrown markweiser xeroxparc sharing oulipo constraints reflection play ritual artleisure leisurearts leisure blogs trains kylemock correspondence caseygollan apatternlanguage intimacy dweb pokémon iot https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7a3fc36f5a3b/ The Black Outdoors: Fred Moten & Saidiya Hartman at Duke University - YouTube 2017-12-24T00:17:55+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_tUZ6dybrc robertogreco fredmoten saidiyahartman blackness 2016 jkameroncarter fredricjameson webdubois sarahjanecervenak unhomed unsettled legibility statelessness illegibility sovereignty citizenship governance escape achievement life living fannielouhamer resistance refusal terror beauty cornelwest fugitives captives captivity academia education grades grading degrading fugitivity language fellowship conviviality outdoors anarchy anarchism constraints slavery oppression race racism confidence poverty privilege place time bodies body humans mobility possessions https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:08cb945fcfe8/ crap futures — counter-constraints 2016-02-23T09:38:06+00:00 http://crapfutures.tumblr.com/post/138659230834/counter-constraints robertogreco constraints counter-constraints enzomari 2016 diy furniture autoprogettazione inversion futures future design crapfutures democratization 1970s science society technology knowledgesystems perspective possibilty https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b967d515a4fc/ crap futures — constraint no. 2: legacies of the past 2016-01-12T06:27:56+00:00 http://crapfutures.tumblr.com/post/134923133759/constraint-no-2-legacies-of-the-past robertogreco"No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time." — Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (1910) It is true that laws sometimes outstay their welcome or impede progress. The slow pace at which laws change becomes more and more apparent as the pace of innovation increases. But there are positive as well as negative constraints, and laws often constrain us for good (which of course is their supposed function). At best, they check our impulses, give us a cooling off period, prevent us from tearing everything down at a whim. So the law can be a force for good. But then of course - good, bad, or ineffectual - there are always those who find ways to circumvent the law. Jonathan Swift wrote: ‘Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.’ With their shock-and-awe tactics, companies like Uber manage to overcome traditional legal barriers by moving faster than local laws or simply being big enough to shrug off serious legal challenges. Technology is evolutionary. (See Heilbroner’s quote in the future nudge post.) Comparisons between natural and technological evolution have been a regular phenomenon since as far back Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859). Darwin’s revolutionary work inspired philosophers, writers, and anthropologists - Marx and Engels, Samuel Butler, Augustus Pitt-Rivers - to suggest that technological artefacts evolve in a manner similar to natural organisms. This essentially means that technological development is unidirectional, and that radical new possibilities do not happen. Viewing technology in evolutionary terms would appear to constrain us to only the possibilities that we could reasonably ‘evolve’ into. But this does not have to be the case: natural evolution works by random mutation and natural selection with no ‘plan’ as such, whereas technological innovation and product design are firmly teleologic (literally ‘end-directed’). In other words, the evolutionary model of technological change ignores basic human agency. While natural organisms can’t dip into the historical gene pool to bring back previous mutations, however useful they might be, innovators and designers are not locked into an irreversible evolutionary march and can look backward whenever they choose. So why don’t they? It is a case - circling back to constraint no. 1 - of thinking under the influence of progress dogma."]]> crapfutures constraints darwin evolution innovation future progress progressdogma transportation infrastructure law legal time pace engels friedrichengels technology californianideology emmagoldman anarchism insurance policy electricity nikolatesla thomasedison systems systemsthinking jonathanswift samuelbutler karlmarx longnow bighere augustuspitt-rivers 2015 charlesdarwin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a3f21afca119/ crap futures — constraint no. 1: progress dogma 2016-01-12T06:22:58+00:00 http://crapfutures.tumblr.com/post/134529897709/constraint-no-1-progress-dogma robertogreco crapfutures raybradbury design titanic dinosaurs sciencefiction scifi innovation constraints progress technology systemsthinking time longnow bighere skepticism timesafari implications consequences caution positivism future duediligence diligence change ecosystems californianideology 2015 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dbcc52ff5d70/ DIGITAL-MATERIALITY-OF-GIFS 2016-01-05T06:39:57+00:00 http://digitalmateriality.com/ robertogreco>>>>>>>> [Also at this URL: http://newhive.com/shashashasha/digital-materiality-of-gifs ]]]> shahwang gifs animatedgifs internet web facebook vine twitter fileformats constraints art webart tumblr memes remixing portability video animation emotions imgur okcupid redit newhive phenakistoscopes dvdp 89-a @dshep25 cinemagraphs jamiebeck kevinburg history media legibility resolution reactiongifs accessibility 1987 1989 gifpop culture remixculture multiliteracies https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6f5dc982dab2/ Sha Hwang - Keynote [Forms of Protest] - UX Burlington on Vimeo 2016-01-03T23:26:06+00:00 https://vimeo.com/album/3447854/video/131786900 robertogreco shahwang 2015 design infrastructure fashion systemsthinking complexity messiness protest careers technology systems storytelling scale stewartbrand change thehero'sjourney founder'sstory politics narrative narratives systemsdesign blame control algorithms systemfailure healthcare.gov mythmaking teams purpose scalability bias microaggressions dignity abuse malice goodwill fear inattention donellameadows leveragepoints making building constraints coding code programming consistency communication sharing conversation government ux law uxdesign simplicity kindness individuals responsibility webdev web internet nava codeforamerica 18f webdesign https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0b92c4398a0b/ The Art Of Not Working on Vimeo 2015-12-06T21:15:38+00:00 https://vimeo.com/143685855 robertogreco igniaciouriarte art work labor officework productivity 2015 freedom constraints repetition https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:317eae3e5348/ Anthony Ptak: Solving Problems Within Constraints - LocateFlow - YouTube 2015-09-25T14:42:53+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPMp2dvizCw robertogreco creativity constraints anthonyptak 2013 interviews https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dafbf6f654c9/ Web Design - The First 100 Years 2015-07-22T15:35:17+00:00 http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm robertogreco technology web webdesign internet culture design history aviation airplanes planes 2014 constraints growth singularity scale webdev siliconvalley technosolutionism boeing intel microsoft cloud raykurzweil elonmusk williamgibson inequality mooreslaw timoreilly software bloat progress present future manifestdestiny singularitarianism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1dbd883cac5f/ To Count for Nothing: Poverty Beyond the Statistics by Professor Ruth Lister - YouTube 2015-03-27T19:21:37+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muv99kqKU4U robertogreco ruthlister poverty resilience policy economics agency dignity humanrights 2015 constraints shame benefits dehumanization humanism sanctioning statistics welfare wages https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5f1448b0b359/ GODARD MONTAGE: Chris Marker's Camera-Stylo / "Notes On Filmmaking" 2015-03-08T07:50:47+00:00 http://godardmontage.blogspot.com/2010/11/chris-markers-camera-stylo-notes-on.html robertogreco chrismarker budget filmmaking lajetée sanssoleil audio film tools howwework cinematography cameras editing framing composition dzigavertov technology constraints https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:548182a301a8/ 80 Days at GDC (with images, tweets) · laurajnash · Storify 2015-03-04T04:06:50+00:00 https://storify.com/laurajnash/80-days robertogreco via:robinsloan 80days games gaming storytelling writing megjayanth edg srg research process howwework reading howweread text interactivefiction collaboration constraints tension complexity gamedesign videogames gamedev gamedevelopment if https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:54275b4a9f5e/ Sasha Frere-Jones: Brian Eno’s Quiet Influence : The New Yorker 2014-07-02T23:12:17+00:00 http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2014/07/07/140707crmu_music_frerejones?currentPage=all robertogreco 2014 brianeno sashafrere-jones music johncage marcelduchamp eriksatie scenius collaboration notknowing constraints rules obliquestrategies art process howwework happenings bryanferry improvisation generative possibility chance genius uncertainty https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e19508f53aec/ Material world: how Google discovered what software is made of | The Verge 2014-06-30T04:53:23+00:00 http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/27/5849272/material-world-how-google-discovered-what-software-is-made-of robertogreco design android google materialdesign constraints rules 2014 dieterbohn xeroxparc objects predictability matiasduarte https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:92ac4341a438/ Education’s war on millennials: Why everyone is failing the “digital generation” - Salon.com 2014-06-14T23:03:27+00:00 http://www.salon.com/2014/06/14/educations_war_on_millennials_why_everyone_is_failing_the_digital_generation/ robertogreco education technology edtech control reform policy power 2014 traditionalism traditionalists plagiarism pedagogy learning schools cheating multitasking highered highereducation politics elizabethlosh mimiito ianbogost jamespaulgee homago betsydisalvo amybruckman foxharrell geekingout culture play constraints games gaming videogames mckenziewark janemcgonigal gamesmanship internet youtube secrecy benjaminbratton unschooling deschooling collaboration cooperation agesegregation youth teens digitalnatives marshallmcluhan othering sivavaidhyanathan digital digitalliteracy attention engagement entertainment focus cathydavidson https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2a7d45193b25/ ▶ TOC 2012: Tim Carmody, "Changing Times, Changing Readers: Let's Start With Experience" - YouTube 2013-12-03T19:15:40+00:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpAXqHmRa0E robertogreco reading writing timcarmody 2012 books papermodernism paper history scrolls experience bookfuturism mallarmé skeuomorph skills literacy literacies multiliteracies constraints stéphanemallarmé https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:59906aab413c/ RSA - The App Generation: identity, intimacy and imagination in the digital era 2013-11-25T20:30:58+00:00 http://www.thersa.org/events/video/vision-videos/howard-gardner robertogreco howardgardner education generations digital digitalage 2013 creativity imagination writing technology identity intimacy texting openstudioproject lcproject gettinglost vulnerability visual text graphicarts empathy constraints freedom https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:29cce812023a/ Ian Bogost - Shit Crayons 2012-12-04T03:24:27+00:00 http://www.bogost.com/writing/shit_crayons.shtml robertogreco poetry williamblake fanfiction videogames gaming games ingenuity constraints cowclicker inspiration making resilience wolesoyinka chaimgingold shotcrayons 2011 ianbogost creativity https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cc0798328e68/ Wired 7.01: The Revenge of the Intuitive 2012-11-15T01:01:00+00:00 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.01/eno.html robertogreco howwework thetoolsweuse intuition intuitive via:vruba 1999 familiarity limitations mediation experience toolmaking features featurecreep options freedom seams distortion software design creativity technology culture tools constraints tradition art intimacy brianeno music seamlessness https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a0a8162b1885/ Don't Worry About Your Gear: Casey Neistat's Guide to Getting Started on Vimeo 2012-11-03T07:36:19+00:00 https://vimeo.com/44255562 robertogreco neistatbros vanneistat caseyneistat deschooling unschooling constraints limitations process howwework experience experiences srg edg creativity howto video film 2012 storytelling filmmaking https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:571eefe0b0d3/ Tom La Farge, fabulist 2012-10-12T05:29:14+00:00 http://www.tomlafarge.com/ robertogreco reading travel strangeness books constraints oulipo writers writing nyc brooklyn tomlafarge https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ca3cf5e04dcb/ Designing Culture | Jacobin 2012-09-03T06:32:25+00:00 http://jacobinmag.com/2012/08/designing-culture/ robertogreco society influence power history pierrebourdieu lego industrialdesign constraints purpose colinmcswiggen via:litherland 2012 opinion culture politics capitalism consumerism design baudrillard jeanbaudrillard https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:db9c0231f596/ Photo by caseyneistat • Instagram ["How To Be A Filmmaker. an abridged essay from 2007."] 2012-08-18T22:52:44+00:00 http://instagram.com/p/OfHXEfJtW5/ robertogreco 2007 wantingit motivation howwecreate constraints excuses life filmmaking caseyneistat https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f2aef43214a7/ The Rumpus Interview With Francis Ford Coppola - The Rumpus.net 2012-08-18T22:17:59+00:00 http://therumpus.net/2012/08/the-rumpus-interview-with-francis-ford-coppola-2/ robertogreco purity minimalviableproduct thebasics glvo creativity 2012 money constraints filmmaking francisfordcoppola https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2aef4c2e1c16/ naffidy: Andrea Zittel -----"These things I know for sure" 2012-07-31T22:21:20+00:00 http://naffidy.blogspot.com/2007/06/andrea-zittel-these-things-i-know-for.html?m=1 robertogreco andreazittel criticalspace progressive human humans sorting dichotomy dichotomies categorization patternfinding patterns generalizations generalization surfaces maintenance time art learning filingsystems design rules constraints personaltruths universaltruths truths happiness movement progress attainability goals perspective comfort security clarity creativity freedom creation choice polarization ambiguity function https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:247a3c2f81a0/ The Line Sitters – Jack Cheng 2012-07-18T23:18:13+00:00 http://blog.jackcheng.com/post/27433804293/the-line-sitters robertogreco constraints writing 2012 jackcheng storytelling stories https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e7ae20b6d71e/ Jack Cheng waits for ramen, uses time wisely. (with images, tweets) · maxfenton · Storify 2012-07-18T23:14:02+00:00 http://storify.com/maxfenton/jack-cheng-waits-for-ramen-uses-time-wisely robertogreco constraints classideas howwewrite howwework robinsloan writing storytelling stories food jackcheng ramen storify https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1af7a0d3a73c/ The Disrupters: Working Outside The Business Norm | Fast Company 2012-02-22T10:38:34+00:00 http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/161/creative-business-people robertogreco creativity innovation business leadership 2012 joiito committees scale roles bureaucracy constraints organizations https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9625f6b8d051/ TOC 2012: Tim Carmody, "Changing Times, Changing Readers: Let's Start With Experience" - YouTube 2012-02-21T08:45:08+00:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL16E261CDB64A51AF&v=CpAXqHmRa0E robertogreco design reading writing journalism history timcarmody toc2012 via:tealtan constraints billbuxton bookfuturism ebooks stéphanemallarmé paper 2012 media mediarevolutions sentencediagramming advertising photography change books publishing printing modernism context interface expectations conventions skills skeuomorph mallarmé https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:abfd549bf1a3/ Bookmarks Tagging and Taxonomies · tealtan · Storify 2012-01-23T20:13:26+00:00 http://storify.com/tealtan/bookmarks-tagging-and-taxonomies robertogrecosearch recall truth-telling commentary hashtags flickr socialbookmarking discovery serendipity batchedits messiness systems constraints bookmarking bookmarks taxonomy storify twitter comments conversation tumblr pinboard del.icio.us tagging tags folksonomy 2012 carenlitherland allentan https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:601af792b448/ MAKE | Zen and the Art of Making 2011-11-10T03:02:06+00:00 http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/11/zen-and-the-art-of-making.html robertogreco philliptorrone making learning unschooling curiosity education experts generalists creativegeneralists 2011 zen knowledge expertise lewiscarroll makers electronics art artists science scientists tinkering tinkerers lifelonglearning deschooling mindset beginners invention arduino fear risktaking riskaversion teaching lcproject failure stasis yearoff openminded children interestedness specialists motivation intrinsicmotivation exploration internet web online constraints specialization interested beginnersmind zenbuddhism https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2a47a3fb163b/ Developing Your Creative Practice: Tips from Brian Eno :: Tips :: The 99 Percent 2011-09-18T22:02:02+00:00 http://the99percent.com/tips/7034/Developing-Your-Creative-Practice-Tips-from-Brian-Eno robertogreco art creativity music productivity brain neuroscience via:preoccupations brianeno 2011 jonahlehrer ideation classideas innovation noticing limitations constraints making doing glvo howwework process idleness boredom thinking ideas https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8c019ba1ad37/ Frank Chimero’s Blog: Everything you ever needed to know about design, answered in five minutes by Charles Eames. 2011-08-03T12:11:26+00:00 http://blog.frankchimero.com/post/8392329411 robertogreco design art eames charleseames definition frankchimero action creation designethic constraints https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1ad1485d3f6b/ The Auteur Myth | Wired Science | Wired.com 2011-07-29T03:23:46+00:00 http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/the-auteur-myth/ robertogreco jonahlehrer creativity collaboration alfredhitchcock stevejobs johngruber design film decisionmaking auteurs howwework constraints support making business teamwork leadership 2011 https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:207012c09e02/ Weekend At Kermie's: The Muppets' Strange Life After Death | The Awl 2011-07-25T21:20:11+00:00 http://www.theawl.com/2011/07/weekend-at-kermies-the-muppets-strange-life-after-death robertogreco art creativity film copyright muppets puppets perfection human humanism specificity makeshift making craft limitations constraints via:rushtheiceberg doing meaning purpose glvo jasonsegel jimhenson remix remixing remixculture craftsmanship https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9ce03fe8046a/ Animated GIFs Triumphant - Anil Dash 2011-07-12T21:05:54+00:00 http://dashes.com/anil/2011/07/animated-gifs-triumphant.html robertogreco tag. That omission is understandable, as GIF compression of animation isn't particularly efficient. They even lived under an unfashionable cloud of patent uncertainty during the web's formative years. And those are just some of the traits I love about the format… But to my eye, GIF is the most popular animation and short film format that's ever existed. It works on smartphones in millions of people's pockets, on giant displays in museums, in web browsers on a newspaper website. It finds liberation in constraints, in the same way that fewer characters in our tweets and texts freed us to communicate more liberally with one another. And it invites participation, in a medium that's both fun and accessible, as the pop music of moving images, giving us animations that are totally disposable and completely timeless."]]> culture history web animation anildash animatedgifs gifs 2011 kickstarter constraints technology https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d51feac49ad2/ Less Is More: Using Social Media to Inspire Concise Writing - NYTimes.com 2011-04-04T15:33:25+00:00 http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/less-is-more-using-social-media-to-inspire-concise-writing/ robertogreco writing literature twitter facebook brevity classideas fiction stories storytelling socialmedia summary texting constraints https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b88195738ca4/ David Byrne's Journal: 03.18.10: Collaborations [updated] 2011-02-27T06:37:59+00:00 http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2010/03/031810-collaborations-updated.html robertogreco music collaboration creativity davidbyrne writing constraints limits tcsnmy classideas editing via:preoccupations https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:941a036864f3/ Uncleftish Beholding - 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