Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco “Prototyping turned into an excuse for not thinking” – Unsung 2026-05-28T07:22:10+00:00 https://unsung.aresluna.org/prototyping-turned-into-an-excuse-for-not-thinking/ robertogreco howwework howwethink velocity slow friction cyberpunk2077 noman'ssky videogames games gaming prototyping marcinwichary 2026 geoffduncan 19962016 2020 urgency thoughfulness slowsoftware software sustainability care caring humanism jaredwhite 2023 creating creation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:373fca926f73/ Is This Why Science Advances One Funeral at a Time? 2026-05-12T06:40:45+00:00 https://nautil.us/is-this-why-science-advances-one-funeral-at-a-time-1280650 robertogreco science 2026 aging resreach invention innovation conservatism careers bobgrant howwework time alberteinstein disruption death generations douglasadams https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1a8d3229660f/ Ten years of "Alaska": Maggie Rogers on going viral and singing for 200,000 protestors - YouTube 2026-04-18T04:31:04+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK5y9N1kuNk robertogreco maggierogers 2026 music songwriting musicmaking pharrell charlieharding switchedonpop fame lyrics virality stephencolbert activism art fear protest rest creativity writing collaboration howwewrite howwework protestsongs hope artmaking courage well-being wellbeing oppression donaldtrump freespeech utopia resistance dancing community solidarity togetherness social meaning meaningmaking systems change adaptability innovation growth life living meditation slow time productivity stockandflow rejuvenation goals work divinityschool gradschool society education conviviality solitude process prince spirituality joanbaez https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:af8943c86286/ Michael Tsai - Blog - iPadOS Post–MacBook Neo 2026-04-16T05:08:37+00:00 https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/04/15/ipados-postmacbook-neo/ robertogrecoipad ipados computers computing ios macos macbookneo laptops 2026 michaeltsai mattbirchler ericschwarz touchscreens os markgurman brendanshanks howwework coloncornaby chrishannah edtech chromebooks stevertroughton-smith marcusmendes danielrubino mitchwagner nilaypatel davidpierce tobiashedtke colindevroe education tablets microsoft microsoftsurface https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c7228334fc18/ AI and 'being a writer' - by Naoise Dolan - Naois content 2026-04-14T04:52:30+00:00 https://naoise.substack.com/p/ai-and-being-a-writer robertogreco naoisedolan 2026 ai artificialintelligence writing howwewrite writers capitalism economics labor miaballard human humanism effort publishing foucault michelfoucault brendanbehan normanmailer tonimorrison shortcuts society motivation work howwework reading howweread identity creativewriting learning howwelearn morality art artmaking achievement individualism succss ambition https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:93e6ce56f715/ Flea | Where Everybody Knows Your Name - YouTube 2026-03-29T16:03:38+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM402KmkXOk robertogreco flea woodyharrelson teddanson spirituality 2024 prayer life living creativity relationships losangeles trauma experience providence clarity music rhcp redhotchilipeppers art arts emotions vulnerability teamcoco religion fpjourne watches bach humility howwework jazz trumpet yoga surfing basketball striving care caring presence yearning franciscogoya prado duality lausd ronaldreagan prop13 proposition13 musiceducation publicschools education horacetapscott listening love pain suffering gratitude self-love drugs meditation silverlakeconservatoryofmusic https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a195e89b20b9/ “This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold 2026-03-25T18:48:59+00:00 https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/ robertogreco macbookneo apple computers computing 2026 samhenrigold obsessions howwelearn tools machines learning limits limitations understanding boundaries howwework beginnersmind mac https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:66cfe5e5c360/ Work is Four Letters – GOLIKEHELLMACHINE 2026-03-12T04:54:47+00:00 https://golikehellmachine.com/work-is-four-letters/ robertogreco howwework work https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4cdfca9548b4/ Raymond Saunders - YouTube 2026-02-26T06:18:30+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QQUnMlvzTI robertogreco art 1994 artists sfmoma raymondsaunders collage assemblage oakland pittsburgh consciousness identity artmaking process painting unlearning howwewrite nonlinear unfinished howwework serendipity dedication focus isolation lustforlife brilliance https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b3e66726af87/ 90% of everything is sanding e.g. laundry (Interconnected) 2026-02-16T00:05:52+00:00 https://interconnected.org/home/2026/02/06/sanding robertogrecoThe very features of the sport that the ‘C’ swimmer finds unpleasant, the top level swimmer enjoys. What others see as boring-swimming back and forth over a black line for two hours, say-they find peaceful, even meditative, often challenging, or therapeutic. … It is incorrect to believe that top athletes suffer great sacrifices to achieve their goals. Often, they don’t see what they do as sacrificial at all. They like it. From The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers (1989) by Daniel Chambliss (PDF). ------ But remember that 90% of everything is sanding. With domestic appliances, sanding is preparing to put things into machines and handling things when you take them out of the machines. This “drudgery” will be taken away. So then there will be new sanding. Inevitably! With domestic robots, what will the new continuous repetitive micro task be? Will I have to empty its lint trap? Will I have to polish its eyes every night? Will I have to go shopping for it, day after day, or just endlessly answer the door to Amazon deliveries of floor polish and laundry tabs? Maybe the future is me carrying my robot up the stairs and down the stairs and up the stairs and down the stairs, forever. I worry that I won’t love future sanding as much as I love today sanding."]]> mattwebb productivity maintenance sanding effort friction swimming work labor howwework repetition drudgery laundry robots automation wordworking craft danielchambliss appliances care caring hardfun fragglerock dishwashing waymo claude ai artificialintelligence llms claudecode coding https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:159e49c1d5b7/ The Coming AI Cataclysm | Compact 2026-02-14T06:33:01+00:00 https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-coming-ai-cataclysm/ robertogreco gabrielrossman 2025 ai artificialintelligence class llms motivation learning howwelearn writing howwewrite working howwework criticalthinking labor effort education thinking howwethink turnitin plagiarism highered highereducation colleges universities academia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:58059856242b/ 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents - Ars Technica 2026-01-19T22:13:30+00:00 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/10-things-i-learned-from-burning-myself-out-with-ai-coding-agents/ robertogreco aia artificialintelligence code coding programming development 2026 benjedwards codingagents claudecode claude openai gemini google simonwillison eniac trainingdata llms generativeai agi artificialgeneralintelligence productivity work howwework burnout efficiency optimization busyness v:justinpickard genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b5dc5734c193/ exo : on bicycles and ai 2026-01-17T04:41:03+00:00 https://exo.org.uk/blah/on-bicycles-and-ai robertogreco ai artificialintelligence generativeai howwethink howwework efficiency optimization development coding programming tools thinking attention time slow bikes biking decisionmaking pace appreciation 2026 struandonald writing howwewrite genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d972bc2a2032/ The master at work, alone 2026-01-05T07:31:30+00:00 https://www.robinsloan.com/moonbound/at-work-alone/ robertogreco hayaomiyazaki robinsloan 2025 howwework comics graphicnoveks nausicaä nausicaäofthevalleyofthewind woldbuilding studioghibli collaboration https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6096a706b256/ Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running | Open Culture 2026-01-02T01:50:24+00:00 https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/woody-guthrie-creates-a-doodle-filled-list-of-33-new-years-resolutions-1943.html robertogreco woodyguthrie newyear self-improvement 1943 2018 2026 life living presence optimism health resistance hope reminders doodles howwewrite lists writing fruit work howwework time reading howweread books love relationships radio clothing drinking alcohol hygiene https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:647fbdc55465/ "Go out. Start working. Make mistakes." - 10 world-class photographers give advice - YouTube 2026-01-01T22:56:06+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd0GlnPQZcI robertogreco nangoldin paulgraham ishiuchimiyako martinparr ulay elinabotherus stephenshore barbarakasten antoncorbijn collierschorr photography 2026 advice howwework https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a2aef5e95450/ Science Needs to Embrace the Idea of Style 2025-12-05T07:24:37+00:00 https://undark.org/2025/12/04/opinion-science-style/ robertogreco cbrandonogbunu 2025 science style howwework writing howwewrite scientificstyle research scientists biases subjectivity homogenization https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:19f324b3ce0b/ Dying to Work | Commonweal Magazine 2025-11-28T23:23:44+00:00 https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/dying-work robertogrecoCapital is the pure form of activity. It is the transcendence that takes hold of the immanence of life and exploits it completely. From life, it separates bare life, life that works. The human being is degraded into an animal laborans. Freedom is exploited, too. According to Marx, free competition is nothing but “the relation of capital to itself as another capital”…. The politics of inactivity [by contrast] liberates the immanence of life from the transcendence that alienates life from itself. Only in inactivity do we become aware of the ground on which we rest. Inactivity, in this sense, is what distinguishes those noneconomic practices that make life truly human. Catholic Workers’ lives are fundamentally playful and celebratory, heedless of the conventional (factory) wisdom of maximizing control, optimizing efficiency, and living by holding off death. Of course, Day’s life simply was her practice of Catholicism, living the age-old but radical precepts of the Gospel. It’s important not to construe her faith, as is sometimes done, as an instrument for reforming the social order or the economy. That would be to reinscribe it within totalized capitalism, to place it in the service of an order in constant retreat from death. Rather than flight from death, the Gospel represents an embrace of death. Together, Day and Han help us remember that this embrace structures Christianity from top to bottom. In her journals and chronicles of her daily life and travels, Day regularly refers to the martyrs, to the need to put ourselves to death, and to the embrace of the cross itself. With Han’s help we can see that Day’s prodigal practices—voluntary poverty and the sharing of possessions—are intelligible only as part of a community constituted by its liberation from the hegemony of death. The radical precepts of the Sermon on the Mount are just the “economic” application of the way of the cross. The radical forms of economic life Day encouraged are the concrete and quotidian way Christians go about believing in the Resurrection. In other words, by being “irresponsible” with her money and her physical safety, Day was refusing the lie that we must try to ensure our lives turn out right by submitting to the current economic order. Her refusal to abide by the dictates of economic efficiency and to let her life be run by “risk” are training in martyrdom. She reminds us that the early Christians were not simply martyred for a “religious belief” detachable from their daily lives; they went to their deaths prepared by an alternative social life that spurned the fear of death. Han’s work thus not only demonstrates the continued—and even heightened—relevance of the Catholic Worker’s philosophy of labor for a digital age. He also unearths the intimate connection between radical Christian social practices and the very center of our faith—the Paschal Mystery. If those practices sometimes seem a little too radical for us ordinary Christians, it’s worth recalling that Day herself often pointed out that the way she lived was not for the religious elite, but for everybody. Her own inspiration came from the simple truths Christians share and with which we are marked in our baptism: we have already died, and so we have nothing to lose; we have already risen, and so we can live without fear. "]]> byung-chilhan catholicism catholicworker colinmiller religion catholicchurch christianity philosophy labor work workers politics dorotyhday petermaurin communism capitalism industrialism society efficiency ideology morality arthurpenty technocracy colonization slavery self-oppression self-slavery influencers working neoliberalism optimization gkchesterson hilairebelloc culture howwework capital life living socialmedia ai artificialintelligence virtualreality vr emmanuelmounier peterkropotkin nikolaiberdyaev inactivity play celebration control death karlmarx accumulation divineprovidence voluntarypoverty poverty collectivity gandhi survival giorgioagamben https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2ed5d245a474/ ZEITGEIST with Bernhard Zwinz of Winnerl - YouTube 2025-11-16T05:28:14+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=equtZuDlUis robertogreco watches watchmaking bernhardzwinz 2025 film perfectionism time timekeeping howwework mechanics art documentary interviews jtwinnerl winnerl 2023 russellshelldrake philippedufour gruebelforsey rogerdubuis andreasstrehler maxbüsser maximilianbüsser mb&f gerd-rüdigerlang watchcanon ritual tea teamaking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6a76098338a4/ Werner Herzog - City Arts & Lectures - Apple Podcasts 2025-11-14T06:18:47+00:00 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/werner-herzog/id1436346407?i=1000637357339 robertogreco 2023 wernerherzog caterinafake walking reading film filmmaking projects howwework poetry writing howwewrite jabaker https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c172c080af2a/ My Truck Desk by Bud Smith 2025-11-03T21:51:08+00:00 https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10/29/truck-desk/ robertogreco bidsmith 2025 writing howwewrite workspaces mobility trucks simplicity desks howwework https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:12ee2f5b8b4f/ An imaginative activity | A Working Library 2025-10-26T04:58:15+00:00 https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/an-imaginative-activity robertogreco mandybrown jameshillman ursulakleguin ursulaleguin 2025 work howwework knowledge imagination thedispossessed art creativity psychology dreams joy fantasy pscyhe https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:49a0b5503cfa/ Frank Chimero · Beyond the Machine 2025-10-21T04:13:50+00:00 https://frankchimero.com/blog/2025/beyond-the-machine/ robertogrecofrankchimero 2025 ai artificialintelligence howwework generativeai writing howwewrite llms openai chatgpt rickrubin taoteching brianeno georgesaunders obliquestratregies peterschmidt hollyherndon matdryhurst donnaharraway collaboration machines music design ethics sampling hayaomiyazaki studioghibli idenity imitation refustal spiritedaway simonweil discordance imagination creativity genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fd85114bd57a/ Partita for Ghost Ladder and Insect Eyes 2025-10-18T05:48:48+00:00 https://pablohelguera.substack.com/p/partita-for-ghost-ladder-and-insect robertogreco art javiertoscano danielawolf lourdesmorales gabriellagómez-mont fronteracorozal chiapas mexico guatemala lacandon border borders marjorieperloff witrgenstein compasses language poetry scaffolding experience thought action aníballópez bubunegrón miguelventura documentary understanding comprehension labor museums markets intentions process production product lygiaclark taniabruguera happenings artmaking permanence impermanenece via:laure arteútil utility objects relationalobjects acts pedagogy value authorship existence work howwework artleisure leisurearts interpretation ladders inquiry artifact ownership inventory economics social mediation audience activation conversation learning howwelearn sense sensemaking jamesjoyce fugue absence manners impalpability instruction pablohelguera allankaprow compass makingsense https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d3a908173685/ 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/ The Programmer Identity Crisis ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend Engineer 2025-10-09T15:23:01+00:00 https://hojberg.xyz/the-programmer-identity-crisis/ robertogreco simonhøjberg 2025 ai programming coding artificialintelligence howwewrite flexowriter computing computers llms creativity fortran joandidion peternaur thinking howwethink human humans care caring howwework writing craft details work edsgerdijkstra https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:26bf059bd5b9/ The distance of leverage 2025-10-09T15:20:39+00:00 https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/distance-of-leverage/ robertogrecoBut I profoundly do not want to be merely an oper­ator or code reviewer: taking a back­seat to the fun and inter­esting work. I want to drive, immerse myself in craft, play in the orchestra, and solve com­plex puzzles. I want to remain a programmer, a craftsperson. Like Simon, I don’t under­stand the appeal of being an oper­ator rather than a programmer. There’s leverage, sure … but remember that leverage hap­pens through a lever: which nec­es­sarily dulls your senses, pushes you back from where the work is happening. I’d rather be up close, because (1) it’s more fun, and (2) I care about the details. What’s the appeal of coding at a distance, for so many people? I’ve come to believe that a large part of it, prob­ably subconscious, is simply the expe­ri­ence of having someone — something — to boss around. Tiny CEOs of the com­mand line."]]> robinsloan simonhøjberg 2025 coding ai artificialintelligence programming howwework howwewrite writing creativity craft details care caring work https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:effa5be9c42d/ America Against China Against America - by Jasmine Sun 2025-09-26T06:16:15+00:00 https://jasmi.news/p/china-2025 robertogrecoGeertz’s theory of involution holds that a greater input (an increase in labor) does not yield proportional output (more crops and innovation)... Involution is “the experience of being locked in competition that one ultimately knows is meaningless,” Biao told me. It is acceleration without a destination, progress without a purpose, Sisyphus spinning the wheels of a perpetual-motion Peloton. Chinese solar companies battling to the death? Involution. High schoolers spending Saturdays out-prepping each other for the gaokao? Involution. Six hotpot restaurants side-by-side on a single mall floor? Involution. Boba delivery that somehow costs less than pickup? Dance, dance, involution.2" ... "Overall, my trip was a blast. There are other places in Asia I’d like to visit—Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand—but whenever the opportunity presents itself, I find myself returning to China again and again. Part of this is family ties, part is a preference for depth over breadth. But a substantial component is sheer fascination, and a solipsistic desire to understand China so that I might better understand America and myself. There’s a saying that goes something like “After one week in China, you feel you could write a book. After one year, you think you could write an article. After ten years, you realize you know nothing.” I am currently in the second stage of hubris, so forgive me for the generalizations I will surely regret. This irreducibility is a function of both China’s size and speed: it’s a country still modernizing at a mind-bending pace, its future still radically undetermined. Shanghai recently surpassed Taipei in my personal city ranking simply because it feels so different on every trip. For the first time, I grokked why someone might cross the Pacific Ocean, then turn back again. Expats there are all addicted to the pace of change; everywhere else is slow in comparison. It’s the same reason I love San Francisco, for all its thorns—China is a place where things actually happen. I often hear that things are worse now, compared to the golden years of the late 2000s. Politically, it’s true, but it’s hard to leave feeling too pessimistic. Choppy waters train the strongest swimmers. I prefer spending time in places like this: where God-like technologies meet our medieval institutions and Paleolithic emotions. These sites produce the most interesting questions: What does modernization feel like, in your bones? What is it like to live in a place that transforms—physically, culturally, spiritually—at this rate? Are you a surfer cresting a wave, or wiping out on the shore? The hurricanes of progress blow fast and hard. The factory girls had it right. Survival is a process of constant self-reinvention."]]> 2025 jasminesun shenzhen deepseek shanghai manufacturing consumerism competition siliconvalley china artificialintelligence democracy surveillance wanghuning society afrawang charlesyang aadilali arhunramani progress abundance hangzhou yuyao hongkong dengxiaoping specialexonomiczones policy economics davidsacks donaldtrump tariffs computers computing technology cliffordgeertz indonesia yi-lingliu curtisyarvin liuzhongjing involution cynicism genz generationz zoomers huawai wechat tencent work labor howwework workers xijinping meritocracy jackma tallpoppysyndrome alibaba unitree hikvision west us california sanfrancisco madeinchina mentalhealth changche mollyhuang anxiety traditionalism chagee raydalio consumption excess highspeedrail hsr byd culturalrevolution mosuspace daniellurie saas robots robotics ai heygen elonmusk lesliechang factories ethnography dongguan culture liberty freedom engineering building making markets onechildpolicy taiwan military afrazhaowang menciusmoldbug darkenlightenment nerdreich https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4b258fdecf4d/ Michael Tsai - Blog - One Size Does Not Fit All 2025-09-05T21:44:45+00:00 https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/09/05/one-size-does-not-fit-all/ robertogrecomac macos johngruber jasonsnell marcoarment brentsimmons norbertheger stevetroughton-smith michaelflarup pierreigot jeffjohnson liquidglass ui howwework interface ux michaeltsai craighockenberry https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5d2522e304ca/ Earl Sweatshirt on ‘Live Laugh Love,’ Fatherhood, Odd Future & the Wiz Khalifa Tour - YouTube 2025-08-27T16:31:05+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH5cyWHTiio robertogreco earlsweatshirt oddfuture 2025 joncaramanica joecoscarelli music hiphop wizkhalifa fieldermethod trolling earnestness rap ofwgkta philosophy learning howwelearn parenthood fatherhood nostalgia memory sensememory life living fame attention sobreity adulthood maturity change adaptability children childhood self senseofself work howwework celebration morality ethics humor https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:84ef14718bac/ The Dog Days And Your Creative Juices - YouTube 2025-08-22T20:43:03+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80FiN2JAuP8 robertogreco time productivity creativity slow attention 2025 noahkalina psychology zoominginandout walking summer dogdays cycles nature howwework working art outdoors outside https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5450993c243f/ Read Receipt 2025-07-11T16:22:15+00:00 https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/read-receipt/ robertogreco audreywatters howwwewrite writing ai artificialintelligence 2025 knowledge howwethink automation howwework brainstorming https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:804bc1c942ec/ Craig Mod on the Creative Power of Walking ‹ Literary Hub 2025-05-14T15:43:10+00:00 https://lithub.com/craig-mod-on-the-creative-power-of-walking/ robertogreco craigmod walking thinking howwethink boredom writing howwewrite attention distraction solviturambulando creativity imagination howwework presence 2025 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:26b01a2a7c3e/ How Work Has Changed in the Wake of Covid | KQED Forum - YouTube 2025-05-13T19:14:39+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JTQy-kDohA robertogreco works jobs careers covid-19 pandemic coronavirus 2025 nicholasbloom akiito joanwilliams alexismadrigal labor identity economics childcare essentialworkers employment remotework workfromhome access accessibility worklifebalance management productivity greatresignation 2020 2021 2022 race class gender families parenting disabilities disability meetings slack attention howwework zoom microsoftteams technology online web internet mentoring mentorship training social socialnetworking cohorteffects workforce networking concentration leadership administration workingclass policy youth democracy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1ca2338dc9ba/ Adactio: Journal—A tiny taxonomy of meetings 2025-05-13T18:23:20+00:00 https://adactio.com/journal/21905 robertogreco jeremykeith 2025 meetings taxonomy taxonomies howwework https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:549b9941b8c7/ 12. Che-Wei Wang & Taylor Levy (CW&T) - Iterating Together with Time - Jackson Dahl 2025-03-29T02:23:34+00:00 https://jacksondahl.com/dialectic/cwandt robertogreco cw&t che-weiwang taylorlevy 2025 design time jacksondahl howwework friction engineering nyuitp objects growth prototyping kickstarter process intuition efficiency legacy purpose audience learning howwelearn timelessness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3b235c315f18/ Process | Corita Kent in the Grunwald Center Collection Digital Archive | Hammer Museum 2025-03-26T16:33:10+00:00 https://hammer.ucla.edu/collections/grunwald-center-collection/corita-kent/process robertogrecocoritakent sistercorita process art printmaking typography arteducation howwework screenprinting design https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6a929141ec54/ Derrida’s Macintosh | Alexander R. Galloway 2025-03-14T07:43:21+00:00 https://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/derridas-macintosh robertogrecoalexandergalloway jacquesderrida 2021 computers computing deconstruction writing howwewrite software hardware paulfeigelfeld matthewkirschenbaum apple macwrite heidegger nierzsche technology sarakofman webdubois macintosh mac michelciment jasonlariviere philosophy françoisdosse aurèlecrasson wolfgangernst vcr geoffreybennington derridabase louisseguin béatriceseguin peterkrapp digitalhoarding howwework friedrichkittler radios typewriters freud deconstructivism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5f9c7702d348/ Audrey Watters on the dangers - Talk Out of School - Apple Podcasts 2025-02-17T20:40:42+00:00 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/audrey-watters-on-the-dangers-of-using-ai-in-the-classroom/id1490313171?i=1000693084199 robertogreco audreywatters ai artificialintelligence agi artificialgeneralintelligence education edtech misinformation 2025 learning leoniehaimson automation howwelearn standardization standardizedtesting grades grading ranking schools schooling mechanization siliconvalley intelligence howwethik teaching howweteach elonmusk donaldtrump humanism social society teachingmachines history attention criticalthinking howwethink thinking teachers us geoffreyhinton google samaltman chatgpt openai environment climatechange climate globalwarming movefastandbreakthings efficiency government startups insecurity anxiety capitalism profits bias cybercrime security alanturing deception art science craft care caring love sophistication writing howwewrite reading howweread effort shortcuts literature meaning meaningmaking practice slow work labor time memory insight cognition cognitiveoffloading nicholascarr thoughlessness laziness creativity extractivism content contentcreation marketing modernity luddism luddites neoluddites internet web https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3da5fe32509c/ things made and in-the-making – The Homebound Symphony 2025-01-20T20:25:44+00:00 https://blog.ayjay.org/things-made-and-in-the-making/ robertogrecoSometimes I think that, even amidst all these ruptures and renovations, the biggest divide in media exists simply between those who finish things, and those who don’t. The divide exists also, therefore, between the platforms and institutions that support the finishing of things, and those that don’t. Finishing only means: the work remains after you relent, as you must, somehow, eventually. When you step off the treadmill. When you rest. Finishing only means: the work is whole, comprehensible, enjoyable. Its invitation is persistent; permanent. I like this, but I want to make a distinction between resting from your labors on a particular project and resting from your labors altogether, through retirement or death. My attitude toward the works I have completed — at at this point that’s fifteen books and a couple of hundred essays and reviews — is that I have never finished anything to my own satisfaction, I have only been forced to abandon it. That’s why I am psychologically incapable of re-reading anything I’ve written. I may retrieve small chunks of it for one purpose or another, but I’ve never re-read anything of mine longer than a blog post. I learned early in my career that revisiting what I’ve published brings only regrets. So, you know, as the man said: “Fare forward, voyagers.” Maybe for this reason I am drawn toward the work that is never finished in the sense that it’s never handed over to someone else, never designated as complete. Take Montaigne’s Essays for instance, a page of which, in a modern edition or translation, looks like this: [image] Montaigne published the first edition of the Essays in 1580 – that’s the main text here. Then in 1588 he published a second edition with new essays and revisions to the earlier ones: those are marked [b]. He continued up to the end of his life to add new essays and revise the old ones: those most recent changes are marked [c]. Montaigne died at age 59, but if he had lived twenty years longer we might have had further editions of the Essays and, consequently, texts with markings of [d], [e], and [f]. I love this. “Essay” means “trial” or “attempt,” of course, and thus Montaigne’s book by its very nature invites second and third thoughts, second and third trials: iteration that ends only when you die, or when you grow tired of it all and retreat into a life of pure contemplation. I’m a big fan of contemplation, but I tend to contemplate most effectively when I have a pen in my hand. And a notebook provides endless opportunities to revisit, rethink, fail again, fail better. Though I never re-read my published works, I re-read my notebooks regularly: I consider such revisitations essential to thought, to growth, to intellectual and moral and spiritual maturation. For me — for my personal wants and needs and satisfactions — my notebooks are the most important writing I do. Then come my essays, and then my books. I think I have written some good books, and they’re made a place for themselves in the world — I’ve sold about 300,000 copies all told, most of those The Narnian and How to Think, which is nothing compared to having a YouTube channel, but not altogether contemptible for a writer of books — but if I had not been in a profession that places a premium on the publication of books, I don’t know that I ever would’ve written a single one. (Maybe a collection or two of essays, though, if I had found any publisher charitable enough to put them out.) It has been good for me to be pushed towards book-writing, but it’s not my natural métier — the essay is. And maybe the notebook is, even more. But what about blog posts, like this one? This blog stands at the juncture of the essay and the notebook. Some of these posts are essays, though usually briefer than the ones that get published by other people; others are basically notebook entries shared with the public. What makes a post an essay is completeness: a story told to the end, a train of thought traced to a destination, a pattern of ideas or responses fully woven. Conversely, you can tell that a post is essentially a notebook entry when I say something like “I’ll revisit this idea later” or “Perhaps a topic for a future post.” In my recent series of posts on the family [https://blog.ayjay.org/tag/family/ ] I was writing on a topic so complex, so nuanced, so difficult that it would have been an impertinence, I think, to issue a finished word. I would dishonor the multiplicity of people’s experiences, the complexity of my own experience, by offering anything like a complete statement. So I put some thoughts out there, related them to one another as best I could, and now I am pausing to reflect. Probably there will be more later. On a blog there can always be more later, and one of the best uses of hyperlinks is to link to your earlier self, even (or especially) when you think your earlier self was wrong about something or left something out. It’s great to finish (or in my case abandon) something: to tell this story, to make this argument as well as you possibly can, crafting it with all your skill, and sending it out into the world to make its way as best it can. But there’s a place also — and I feel this increasingly strongly as I get older — for the tentative and incomplete, for “I’ll revisit this later,” for “Oh, I forgot this when I wrote that” — for, maybe above all, being corrected by charitable but honest readers and then being able to try again on the basis of what the lawyers call “information and belief.” I am always, and hope I always will be, gathering more information and developing my beliefs. As the man also said, “Old men ought to be explorers.”"]]> 2025 alanjacobs howwewrite writing blogs blogging robinsloan unfinished incomplete thinking howwwethink montaigne contemplation notebooks workinginpublic howwework micheldemontaigne essays incompleteness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:50e8da27d1c5/ 94 practical and emotional human experience optimising recommendations for 2025 2025-01-01T23:37:28+00:00 https://humancarbohydrate.substack.com/p/94-practical-and-emotional-human robertogreco stellatsantekidou 2025 rules life living food health happiness interestedness interesting interestingness interested curiosity melancholy howwewrite writing hate interest learning howwelearn relationships social socializing drink drugs hygiene clothes clothing behavior work howwework aging agesegregation desperation envy emotions criticism constructivecriticism appreciation communication friendship romance attention insecurity snobbery snobbism vanity selfishness exercise walking organization self-help feedback care caring decisionmaking decisions posessions kitchen kitchens cooking hosting companionship company advice safety comfort grace access understanding success relief grief maryschmich youth age beauty ego leadership power sympathy feelings blogs blogging responsibility misery suffering listening conversation photography habits badhabits photos self-confidence sexuality gender addiction obsession networking nietzsche anger respect respectfulness arguing creativity language https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:11a6363f4478/ David Hammons: Day's End - YouTube 2024-12-30T21:27:00+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjT53b6qXHw robertogreco davidhammons 2021 art nyc gordonmatta-clark 1975 architecture philosophy race class beauty us noticing debris observation dawoudbey elegancebratton stephanierivera egypttlabeija efrainjohngonzalez darrenwalker lornasimpson alexfialho scottrothkopf guynordenson adrienneedwards monuments community benokri dialog sculpture adamweinberg provocation juliemehretu materials everyday invention experimentation foundobjects transformation identity howwework audience humanism populism democratic improvisation ideas conceptualart absorbtion fragments unseen seeing howwesee queer place creativity history histories time past sociality memorials. culture aesthetics lightness celebration destination memory ephemerality ephemeral readymade erasure gentrification ghosts carriemaeweems water https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cd544f565eee/ Advice For Young Artists - YouTube 2024-12-29T03:21:34+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQUs8cNmDOI robertogreco alecsoth amateurism photography beginnersmind beginners youtube 2024 newness howwework projects doing making play writing howwewrite process outsiders belonging goth houseparties happenings events loners mfa mfas undergraduates nashville tennessee kentucky louisville ohio professionalization curiosity generalists specialists professionals art arteducation youth highschool creativity identity community arts connection innocence children education howwelearn howwemake learning teens winnebagoworkshop littlebrownmushroom experimentation audiencesofone mentors mentoring roadtrips parenting life living growth colleges universities iowa louisiana risd information books impulsivity self-portraits fun walkerevans age aging advice middleage midagecrisis sensemaking makingsense discomfort vulnerability humanity miniatures maquettes mock-ups dioramas amateurs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4f4881df79af/ An Interview with Yatú Espinosa | Are.na Editorial 2024-11-22T07:41:00+00:00 https://www.are.na/editorial/an-interview-with-yatu-espinosa robertogreco2024 yatúespinosa are.na howwelearn learning curiosity normo'hagan howwework creativity making design charlesbroskoski https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fbecebeb8a08/ Why Amazon, Disney, and others are pushing employees back to the office - The Verge 2024-11-08T00:19:13+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/24290345/return-to-office-mandates-amazon-productivity-remote-work-hybrid-decoder-podcast robertogreco leadership management remote remotework workfromhome amazon 2024 productivity hybridwork work andyjassy google nilaypatel bobiger disney workplace offices howwework pandemic covid-19 coronavirus 2019 luisvonahn zoom sundarpichai salesforce apple stephanmeier jessicakriegel https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ca260c253283/ Cabel Sasser, Panic - XOXO Festival (2024) - YouTube 2024-10-21T19:38:50+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df_K7pIsfvg robertogreco cabelsasser art creativity panic xoxo 2024 2013 videogames software mcdonalds centralia wescook sets themeparks waltdisneyimagineering 2004 disney storage archives landmarkentertainmentgroup murals care caring work howwework making beingseen visibility appreciation noticing looking seeing presence rabbitholes death dying longevity immortality washingtonstate https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:93dd0615c75c/ What makes a “tasteful” business? with Charles Broskoski 2024-09-19T19:41:03+00:00 https://itscalledtastepod.substack.com/p/what-makes-a-tasteful-business-with robertogreco are.na 2024 asiagrant charlesbroskoski grit integrity stardewvalley strangeness values openmindedness obsession brashness business videogames howwework storytelling sims https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1a54d7fa8fd9/ An interview with Mary Ruefle - Austin Kleon 2024-08-30T17:52:26+00:00 https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-mary-ruefle robertogreco 2024 austinkleon maryruefle writing reading howwewrite howweread howwework pandemic coronavirus lowtech luddites luddism typing typewriters drawing poetry letters correspondence hobbies music handwriting museums caspardavidfriedrich erasures erasure thrifting lyndabarry covid-19 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7c2db24a5fbe/ Uses This / James Turk 2024-08-15T20:39:12+00:00 https://usesthis.com/interviews/james.turk/ robertogreco 2024 usesthis jamesturk linux android mac macos apple f-91w making portability smarthphones framework howwework teaching howweteach civictech technology tools interface interoperability opencivicdata thesetup casio watches https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d206c79818ec/ The Work of Art - by L. M. Sacasas - The Convivial Society 2024-06-11T05:08:55+00:00 https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-work-of-art robertogreco“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.”1 It’s a perfectly understandable reaction, particularly from an artist, to much of what’s been sold and marketed as AI over the past year and a half. As I wrote last month, Apple’s ill-conceived ad, “Crush,” had the (unintended) consequence of reinforcing the well-grounded fear that the big tech companies have little to no regard for artists and their work. But I found myself somewhat uncomfortable with the underlying logic of the expressed desire. It is the same logic that has underwritten the marketing of new technologies for more than a century, and, in my view, it is tragically flawed. I’ve written before about the problems with the logic of “time-saving” or “labor-saving” technologies, so I will simply point you to one of those posts, which includes the following observation: Implicit in the promise of outsourcing and automation and time-saving devices is a freedom to be something other than what we ought to be. The liberation we are offered is a liberation from the very care-driven involvement in the world and in our communities that would render our lives meaningful and satisfying. In other words, the promise of liberation traps us within the tyranny of tiny tasks by convincing us to see the stuff of everyday life and ordinary relationships as obstacles in search of an elusive higher purpose—Creativity, Diversion, Wellness, Self-actualization, whatever. But in this way it turns out that we are only ever serving the demands of the system that wants nothing more than our ceaseless consumption and production. “If the point is to care and to love and to keep faith,” I concluded, “then what is to be gained by outsourcing or eliminating the very ways we may be called upon to do so?” In that essay, I was not thinking primarily about the artistic endeavor but rather about the moral dimensions of ordinary experience and about the character of a life well lived. Given Maciejewska’s expressed desire in those viral lines, however, I find myself wanting to make a similar more specific argument with regard to the artistic process. I, however, would not consider myself an artist, so I want to tread with a due measure of humility. I suppose my modest question is whether there is not a more intimate link between the tasks Maciejewska would rather have a machine perform for her and the nature of her work as an artist. I wonder, in other words, whether the work of doing the laundry or washing the dishes—these are almost always the examples, but they stand in for a host of similar activities—might not provide a certain indispensable grounding to the artistic endeavor, tethering it to the world in a vital rather than stupefying manner. Or, to take another angle, whether a fidelity to such tasks might not yield certain virtues that might also sustain the artist in their labors: attentiveness, patience, perseverance, or humility, for example.2 I think, too, of these lines from the 19th century artist and critic, John Ruskin: “Now it is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.”3 This is not exactly what Ruskin is saying, but it seems to me that something like this can be said about creativity as well as it can about thought (perhaps because thought and creativity are linked quite intimately together). Perhaps the best expression I know of the sentiment I’m trying to convey is from a poem by Marylin Chandler McEntyre, “Artists at Work,” from her collection inspired by Vermeer’s women:
The craftsman who made the rose window at Chartres rose one morning in the dead of winter, shivered into what layers of wool he owned, and went to his bench to boil molten lead. This was not the day to cut the glass or dye it, lift it to the sun to see the colors dance along the walls, or catch one's breath at peacock shades of blue: only, today, to lay hot lead in careful lines, circles, wiping and trimming, making a perfect space for light. When Wren designed St. Paul’s, he had to turn away each day from the vision in his mind's wide eye to scraps of paper where columns of figures measured tension and stress, heft and curve, angle and bearing point. Whole days he spent considering the density of granite, the weathering of hardwoods, the thickness of perfect mortar; all to the greater glory of God. And Vermeer with his houseful of children didn't paint some days, didn't even mix powders or stretch canvasses, or clean palettes, but hauled in firewood, cleaned out a flue, repaired a broken cradle, remembering, as he bent to his task, how light shone gold on a woman’s flesh, and gathered in drops on her pearls.
This poem, to my mind, makes the implicit argument that certain forms of labor, tedious and mundane though they may appear, are nonetheless essential to the work of being an artist. But as I mentioned earlier, I am not an artist, so I cannot support this claim with my own experience. Although, I would say that my writing, while at times certainly impeded by other labors, is, on the whole, improved by those same labors, chiefly because they tether my thought to the world and shape me in a manner that is conducive to clarity of thought and purpose. Whatever you make about my claims regarding mundane labors and the work of the artist—and artists among you please do tell me how you think about this—I am quite confident that we must resist the temptation to imagine that the path to a meaningful or satisfying life is secured by the unquestioning acceptance of the promise of time-and labor-saving technologies. More often than we might realize, those labors themselves work on us, making us the kind of people who can make good art and fashion a good life."]]> 2024 lmsacasas care caring slow marylinchandlermcentyre joannamaciejewska johnruskin albertborgmann technology ai artificialintelligence labor efficiency convenience productivity liberation creativity wellness diversion self-actualization consumption production consumerism process art happiness craftsmanship poems poetry tedium mundane clarity howwethink friction life living howwework howwelive thegoodlife https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8a2a1c43abc5/ Laptops should work in the rain (Interconnected) 2024-05-12T23:45:15+00:00 https://interconnected.org/home/2024/05/10/rain robertogrecoMy office is my front courtyard on the north side of the house. I’ve got a tarp slung up so that I can be in the shade all the time and see my laptop screen. I also work outside in the rain. I’ve got a waterproof power cord and it powers the laptop and sometimes a little heating pad like you use for your lower back that I throw over my feet. I work all the days of the year out here. In the cold, I wear my winter backpacking gear, including a down hood and fingerless wool gloves. I was looking at Apple’s new iPad which is ever thinner and honestly… who cares? AND SO… What if there was a MacBook Outdoor Edition that - had a monochrome version of MacOS - and an e-paper screen, visible in outdoor light - that was totally waterproof - and it ran all the regular applications. So I could sit outside in the rain with Xcode or VS Code open and hack on apps, or do my writing. Wouldn’t that be better? Wouldn’t that simply enlarge the context of computing, in an unpredictable fashion?"]]> 2024 mattwebb computers computing rain outdoors writing howwewrite howwework daylighttablet weather laptops kimstanleyrobinson bodies embodiment daylightcomputer tablets eink hardware calmtechnology anjankatta ereaders calmcomputing macbooks epaper https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8fcca6f5cf98/ CW&T: House of Make - YouTube 2024-04-12T20:13:36+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgZhCkZID8Y robertogreco cw&t 2024 design making taylorlevy makers che-weiwang values protoyping renderings howwework partnerships small time clocks watches inspiration hardware curiosity durability longevity tools toolmaking engineering everyday overengineering transparency customerservice sharing openness art studios howwelearn learning notknowing craft crafting craftspeople https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ba7a666e0adb/ 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/ The Mac turns 40 — and keeps on moving - The Verge 2024-01-25T23:23:41+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/24048479/apple-mac-40-anniversary robertogreco jasonsnell apple mac computers computing 2024 history 1984 macos osx gregjoswiak iphone ios ipad ipados creativity interface howwework stevejobs business relevance philschiller visionpro software hardware bbedit visionos wesdavis https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eccbb509a5b8/ 070. Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy: The Design Practice | Remake Podcast | Design, Systems, and Society 2024-01-20T21:39:12+00:00 https://remakepod.org/episode/070-che-wei-wang-and-taylor-levy-the-design-practice robertogreco cw&t taylorlevy che-weiwang making 2023 design prototyping time sfpc schoolforpoeticcomputation openness creativity speculativedesign designfiction timekeeping watches clocks casio f-91w howwework howwelive timesincelaunch solidstatewatch nasa johnglenn dariuskazemi midjourney stablediffusion alaindebotton xoxo tokyuhands thebeatles cooper-hewitt timetelling stopwatches gmttime spacetravel crt criticalracetheory sexed power timepassage timepassing cooperhewitt https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:06e86f4d07dc/ v02.0x - forged [resin watch lab] 2024-01-20T21:11:43+00:00 https://forged.resin.watch/ robertogreco resinwatchlab carbon carbonforging process howwework opensource watchcanon https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2ef2db82ceac/ Damon Zucconi on the many ways “the conditions of production are going to make themselves visible” in art 2024-01-14T17:27:13+00:00 https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/damon-zucconi-digital-art-020621 robertogreco damonzucconi 2021 art design transdisciplinary specialization generalists creativegeneralists socialconstructs programming coding code skepticism creativity form web online internet websites thinkinginpublic workinginpublic howwethink howwework photography wordrecognition https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a6aa6c4cb61d/ Is it Weird to Fall in Love with a Machine? - YouTube 2024-01-04T19:27:17+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSfaSgan0iI robertogreco daytontaylor watchmaking life living love loving poetry mentalhealth menralillness howwework fun play making doing report maintenance machines watches 2024 relationships messiness silence https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:255c254341fe/ Boots Riley on Labor, Palestine & I'm A Virgo - YouTube 2023-12-06T05:32:12+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siZgRBQtCRo robertogreco bootsriley unions organizing strikes general strike palestine israel occupywallstreet ows 2023 work teachers fastfood radicals radicalization ilwu uaw solidarity history class classstruggle capitalism communism left i'mavirgo occupyoakland 1999 2012 1960s 1980s southafrica genocide apartheid bds sovietunion ussr economics civilrightsmovement hippies neoliberalism generations babyboomers genx genz millennials geny movements boomers longshoremen sorrytobotheryou art music repetition process practice goals purpose inspiration writing howwewrite cia jacksonpollock parisreview literature activism optimism hope anger howwework wga sag film generationz zoomers generationy generationx https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2f57dbce186e/ Metaheaven, designers (The Netherlands) - YouTube 2023-12-03T07:06:34+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e2eOMSzHMk robertogreco fabrica 2023 design graphicdesign graphics art film carlocasas writing howwewrite reality fiction nonfiction waysofdoing waysofmaking filmmaking approach worldbuilding sciencefiction scifi storytelling ursulaleguin wrapping fredricjameson cinema research sealand practice howwework approval industry unproduct nonproduct architecture internet search web online fragments fragmentation monumentality typography ideology geopolitics governance networks signmaking wikileaks method iceland softpower perception fashion textiles wearables aesthetics videoessays legitimacy quasi-legitimacy hollyherndon musicvideos hypotheticals mahmouddarwish narrative narration narrator howweread seashepherd whales paulwatson flags empathy morethanhuman andreitarkovsky imagination creativity ai artificialintelligence alphago chatgpt symbolism simulation metahaven platforms digital poetics digitalproduction chandaprescod-weinstein davidalbert parenting parenthood elisepartridge vincakruk danielvandervelden attribution commodification ca https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4e15210f501b/ A Conversation on Creating Art in Diaspora [Rupy C. Tut and Maya Salameh] - YouTube 2023-10-25T01:25:43+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM80XaAWC5I robertogreco 2023 rupytut mayasalameh diaspora art identity self homeland belonging immigration migration refugees india syria poetry displacement home roots land culture connection families ancestors patriarchy storytelling oratory oration california bridging technology surveillance history anthropology time skill craft practice process unlearning spirituality patience howwework capitalism rupyctut collecting assemblage bricolage artsists familyhistory extraction ritual bridges loneliness solitude openness betweenness inbetween interest imperfection form painting preservation technique legacy sandiego privilege inbetweenness between https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:93da30ec6d28/ No Data Plan: A Conversation with Miko Revereza - YouTube 2023-09-18T04:00:40+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxWZnVgfpcs robertogreco mikorevereza trains film filmmaking 2020 us migration immigration borders unschooling howwelearn amtrak daca learning art education autodidacts iphone frugality nobudget howwework documentary observation storytelling dreamact bampfa resourcefulness perception presence photography process chantalakerman naomikawase diaristicfilmmaking jonasmekas lcd autodidactism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dee4d3123752/ Cities After… The WORK FROM HOME Reset: Office Work and the Looming Real Estate Crisis - YouTube 2023-07-05T21:07:58+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS5pDb_wmsg robertogreco 2023 citiesafter work realestate offices workfromhome politics economics society culture environment sustainability howwework labor pandemic covid-19 coronavirus miguelrobles-durán homes housing class classstruggle capitalism atomization alienation workplace commutes community productivity commercialrealestate escape liberation freedom gaze corporations control democracy worklifebalance balance life living exploitation hybridwork whitecollar whitecollarwork philippines southafrica india spain españa korea southkorea poland urban urbanism workculture laborrelations space personalspace communalspace sanfrancisco cities nyc infrastructure paris madrid losangeles chicago houston berlin london travel hongkong amsterdam malls wages flexibility parenting profits hr inequality disparity poverty mckinsey deloitte bostonconsulting bain pricewaterhousecoopers accenture happyhours surveillance decentralization unionization latecapitalism anarchism socialism organizing wageslavery adaptivereuse socialmedia loudquitt https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:63ef51f19808/ [Building a Watch Brand series] VPC Review - Fratello Watches - the magazine dedicated to luxury watches 2023-06-12T23:42:30+00:00 https://www.fratellowatches.com/watchbrands/vpc/ robertogreco thomasvanstraaten microbrands 2023 2022 watches design marketing vpc watchmaking venustasperconstantiam howwework gadawatches https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f183ff25c2dd/ AI as intern - Austin Kleon 2023-04-09T03:37:10+00:00 https://austinkleon.com/2023/03/22/ai-as-intern/ robertogreco ai chatgpt artificialintelligence slow austinkleon 2023 howwework howwelearn gruntwork discovery understanding labor efficiency inefficiency technology kevinkelly https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:da5c7505eef5/ Made in Glashütte–Film sequences from the watch manufactory — NOMOS Glashütte 2023-03-26T22:16:52+00:00 https://nomos-glashuette.com/en/watchmaking/watchmaking-craft/made-in-glashuette robertogreco nomos film watches watchmaking howwework https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3ead4eea8bf8/ Made in Glashütte–Film sequences from the watch manufactory — NOMOS Glashütte 2023-03-26T22:16:45+00:00 https://nomos-glashuette.com/en/watchmaking/watchmaking-craft/made-in-glashuette/made-in-glashutte-season-1 robertogreco nomos film watches watchmaking howwework https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8d475f07316c/ 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/ Episode 36: romaric Andre On Seconde/Seconde/ Disrupting And Uniting The Industry — The Real Time Show 2023-03-05T07:11:46+00:00 https://www.therealtime.show/episodes/episode-thirty-six-romaric-andre-seconde-seconde robertogreco watches seconde/seconde/ romaricandré 2023 collections collecting simplicity howwework watchcanon howwethink humor making possessions art creating creativity irony satire fun collaboration collaborative creativeact socialmedia instagram commercialization watchworld https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:af8eda992a22/ OVERCOME THE FEAR OF CREATING - YouTube 2023-03-01T05:59:02+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPVPJJLFJ3k robertogrecointranetgirl creativity 2023 howwewrite howto analog making howwework blender https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:33f8aa8321ba/