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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoNike - Moving Mountains - Yukai on Vimeo2021-10-11T20:34:03+00:00
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https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/interview-earl-sweatshirt.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin
robertogrecobuddhism neoteny zen education learning japanese wordshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c4a596393450/Ideas in cars, honking2018-07-10T21:10:50+00:00
https://austinkleon.com/2018/07/10/ideas-in-cars-honking/
robertogrecoCHAPPELLE: Sometimes the offering drives. If I [have] an idea, it should drive. It’s like the idea says, “Get in the car.” And I’m like, “Where am I going?” And the idea says, “Don’t worry, I’m driving.” And then you just get there.
SEINFELD: The idea’s driving.
CHAPPELLE: Sometime’s I’m shotgun. Sometimes I’m in the f—ing trunk. The idea takes you where it wants to go.
SEINFELD: That’s great.
CHAPPELLE: And then other times, there’s me, and it’s my ego, like, “I should do something!”
SEINFELD: “I should be driving!”
CHAPPELLE: Yeah.
SEINFELD: That’s not good.
CHAPPELLE: No, ‘cause there’s no idea in the car. It’s just me. That formula doesn’t work.
SEINFELD: If the idea is in the car honking, going, “Let’s go…” It pulls up in front of your house.
CHAPPELLE: That’s exactly right.
SEINFELD: “You’re in your pajamas. Get dressed!”
CHAPPELLE: “I’m not ready!” “You can go like this.” “Where are we going? What are we doing?” “Don’t worry about it. You’ll see.”
Although, there’s another great story about cars and ideas, told by Elizabeth Gilbert:
Tom [Waits], for most of his life, he was pretty much the embodiment of the tormented contemporary modern artist, trying to control and manage and dominate these sort of uncontrollable creative impulses that were totally internalized.
But then he got older, he got calmer, and one day he was driving down the freeway in Los Angeles, and this is when it all changed for him. And he’s speeding along, and all of a sudden he hears this little fragment of melody, that comes into his head as inspiration often comes, elusive and tantalizing, and he wants it, it’s gorgeous, and he longs for it, but he has no way to get it. He doesn’t have a piece of paper, or a pencil, or a tape recorder.
So he starts to feel all of that old anxiety start to rise in him like, “I’m going to lose this thing, and I’ll be be haunted by this song forever. I’m not good enough, and I can’t do it.” And instead of panicking, he just stopped. He just stopped that whole mental process and he did something completely novel. He just looked up at the sky, and he said, “Excuse me, can you not see that I’m driving?”
“Do I look like I can write down a song right now? If you really want to exist, come back at a more opportune moment when I can take care of you. Otherwise, go bother somebody else today. Go bother Leonard Cohen.”
And his whole work process changed after that. Not the work, the work was still oftentimes as dark as ever. But the process, and the heavy anxiety around it was released when he took the genie, the genius out of him where it was causing nothing but trouble, and released it back where it came from, and realized that this didn’t have to be this internalized, tormented thing.
Gilbert interviewed Waits in 2002 and he elaborated on his attitude:
“Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.” This openness is what every artist needs. Be ready to receive the inspiration when it comes; be ready to let it go when it vanishes. He believes that if a song “really wants to be written down, it’ll stick in my head. If it wasn’t interesting enough for me to remember it, well, it can just move along and go get in someone else’s song.” “Some songs,” he has learned, “don’t want to be recorded.” You can’t wrestle with them or you’ll only scare them off more. Trying to capture them sometimes “is trying to trap birds.” Fortunately, he says, other songs come easy, like “digging potatoes out of the ground.” Others are sticky and weird, like “gum found under an old table.” Clumsy and uncooperative songs may only be useful “to cut up as bait and use ’em to catch other songs.” Of course, the best songs of all are those that enter you “like dreams taken through a straw.’ In those moments, all you can be, Waits says, is grateful.
Brian Eno puts it in terms of surrender and control:
On one side of Eno’s scale diagram, he writes “control”; on the other “surrender”. “We’ve tended to dignify the controlling end of the spectrum,” he says. “We have Nobel prizes for that end.” His idea is that control is what we generally believe the greats – Shakespeare, Picasso, Einstein, Wagner – were about. Such people, the argument goes, controlled their chosen fields, working in isolation, never needing any creative input from others. As for surrender, that idea has become debased: it’s come to mean what the rest of us do when confronted by a work of genius. “We’ve tended to think of the surrender end as a luxury, a nice thing you add to your life when you’ve done the serious work of getting a job, getting your pension sorted out. I’m saying that’s all wrong.”
He pauses, then asks: “I don’t know if you’ve ever read much about the history of shipbuilding?” Not a word. “Old wooden ships had to be constantly caulked up because they leaked. When technology improved, and they could make stiffer ships because of a different way of holding boards together, they broke up. So they went back to making ships that didn’t fit together properly, ships that had flexion. The best vessels surrendered: they allowed themselves to be moved by the circumstances.
“Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.” Eno considers all his recent art to be a rebuttal to this attitude. “I want to rethink surrender as an active verb,” he says. “It’s not just you being escapist; it’s an active choice. I’m not saying we’ve got to stop being such controlling beings. I’m not saying we’ve got to be back-to-the-earth hippies. I’m saying something more complex.”
]]>austinkleon davechappelle jerryseinfeld elizabethgilbert tomwaits brianeno control flow ideas howwethink creativity neoteny children surrender tension howwework howwelearn productivity earlsweatshirt 2018 rap hiphop thebenerudakgositsile musichttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:99b1ba5e1cbe/Robert Macfarlane on Twitter: "Word of the day: "ostranenie" - a seeing-freshly of everyday things, defamiliarisation (Russian); "making the stone stony" (Shklovsky). https://t.co/92YGII661p"2017-09-24T02:01:40+00:00
https://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/910745491389984768
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http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/158717027791
robertogrecoWhen I talk to students about the distinction between professionalism and personal development, I very often put it this way: In professional life, you must discover a kind of identity for yourself, that becomes a sort of trademark, a way of working that is distinctive that people can recognize. The reason for this is that the path to financial success and notoriety is by having something that no-one else has. It’s kind of like a brand, one of my most despised words.
So what you do in life in order to be professional is you develop your brand, your way of working, your attitude, that is understandable to others. In most cases, it turns out to be something fairly narrow, like ‘this person really knows how to draw cocker spaniels,’ or ‘this person is very good with typography directed in a more feminine way,” or whatever the particular attribute is, and then you discover you have something to offer that is better than other people have or at least more distinctive. And what you do with that is you become a specialist, and people call you to get more of what you have become adept at doing. So if you do anything and become celebrated for it, people will send you more of that. And for the rest of your life, quite possibly, you will have that characteristic, people will continue to ask you for what you have already done and succeeded at. This is the way to professional accomplishment–you have to demonstrate that you know something unique that you can repeat over and over and over until ultimately you lose interest in it. The consequence of specialization and success is that it hurts you. It hurts you because it basically doesn’t aid in your development.
The truth of the matter is that understanding development comes from failure. People begin to get better when they fail, they move towards failure, they discover something as a result of failing, they fail again, they discover something else, they fail again, they discover something else. So the model for personal development is antithetical to the model for professional success. As a result of that, I believe that Picasso as a model is the most useful model you can have in terms of your artistic interests, because whenever Picasso learned how to do something he abandoned it, and as a result of that, in terms of his development as an artist, the results were extraordinary. It is the opposite of what happens in the typecasting for professional accomplishment.
Emphasis mine."]]>success personaldevelopment professionalism miltonglaser careers identity notoriety personalbranding specialization expertise accomplishment stasis failure risk risktaking cv neoteny lifelonglearning learning howwelearn life livinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f3167f8d1f60/This is what you shall do by Walt Whitman | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor2017-06-01T02:31:04+00:00
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2011/07/04
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http://onbeing.org/programs/robert-coles-the-inner-lives-of-children/
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http://mrstsk.tumblr.com/post/117756408138
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http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/111959991366
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http://magicalnihilism.com/2015/01/01/station-identification-4/
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https://medium.com/message/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BejbAwuEBGs
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http://www.exploratorium.edu/knowing/pdfs/Ackerman.pdf
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http://www.nicolefenton.com/build-2013/
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http://www.theamericanconservative.com/jacobs/the-old-ones/
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http://ntlk.net/2012/11/11/coding-for-beginners/
robertogrecoWith adults, I have focused on showing what’s possible with code, and trying to inspire them enough to make overcoming the first period of learning a bit less of a daunting task. I assumed that as non-technical audience they may see learning programming as very difficult. It’s certainly how I saw it to start with, but I kept at it despite failing to grasp concepts and finding syntax of some of the languages unintuitive. I did so because I knew what awaited me: the power to create something, anything, out of nothing. The only barrier was my willingness to stick it out. I hoped similar approach could work for others.
Kids, on the other hand, did not need to be inspired or encouraged to try something new and tricky. They just did.
With adult beginners though my primary focus is on encouraging that playful approach. My aim was never to prepare for the glamorous life of a programmer, or to teach a specific language in depth (not that I know any one of them that well), but rather to foster the same kind of hacker mentality that I always found appealing: figuring out how things work, being able to learn anything by poking them and just trying things out. There’s a huge difference between career programming and coding as a hobby and I’m not so interested in the former.
In school most people got to try drawing or playing instruments. Trying out code should sit in the same category: as a creative pursuit that you should at least try before you decide whether you like it or not. There is a huge drive now to get kids to do just that, whether it’s to give them skills required by the modern world or whether it’s about teaching creative ways of thinking.
]]>children education programming play coding teaching learning neoteny 2012 beginners via:tealtanhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bd780a7ed3da/We need to think very, very seriously about this - The Edge of Tomorrow - Standing on the verge of a technologically educational revolution.2012-11-03T04:34:12+00:00
http://bengrey.com/blog/2012/10/we-need-to-think-very-very-seriously-about-this/
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http://randallszott.org/2012/10/22/human-nature-education-ecology-dewey-darwin-midgley-kropotkin-part-i/
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http://snarkmarket.com/2012/7879
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http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2011/12/05/the-internet-in.html
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http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_9.html#lanier
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http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2009/12/15/neoteny.html
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http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/stuart_brown_says_play_is_more_than_fun_it_s_vital.html
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