The guys riding the lawnmowers in the park left the tall grass with the buttercups. My kind of people 🌼

We might view our combined knowledge as a form of collective cognition. Within this aggregate, each human life has a distinct point of view and lived experience that cannot be fully captured or reproduced. Wisdom remains grounded in human life because it emerges from personal, social and biological properties that situate it, undissolved, within the broader whole.

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Wondrous new learning for Earth Day: there’s a narrative lexicon to forest structure. The tree canopy is called the overstory, with the understory all the plant life growing beneath.

Conversations around artistry and the machine are saturated.

Of the crucial signs I’ve seen in kids, the most vital is a general decline in their ability to imagine. To generate—from their own minds—places, stories and perspectives, and to imagine their own selves and others in imagined worlds. It’s the most precious human capacity we have to protect.

Jack Conte | SXSW 2024 Keynote: www.youtube.com/watch

Soundtracks > trends

Watched: Footloose 🍿

Social media feels most alive when it brings us together through the things we love, the interests we pursue in life and share online. That’s when it’s genuinely fun ✨

Impossible to overstate how much good NASA and the crew of Artemis II have done for humanity at this moment in time. They knew we needed them to give us perspective and hope. The mission was nothing less than a global recalibration. What a massive, massive gift.

Watched: Steel Magnolias 🍿

Currently reading: When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World by Suzanne Simard 📚

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