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understanding is rare
As we get older, we seek a bigger picture than a school boy. We learn our lines and something about the rest of the world around us, the community, the economy, the profession, we occupy. We become more worldly. Until recently this was enough for a lot of people. All they really cared about was a rough idea of the world around them. A big picture, ... See more
Grant McCracken • What if culture is the solution: Big Pictures 005
These are just a few of the ways that the pure chemistry of ideas mutates into new compounds through exposure to the oxygen of real societies, patterns which mean that the originators of ideas can rarely know what will happen to them. Nor is there any easy way to situate imaginative ideas in time—to know whether they might bear fruit in a decade, a
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
If you want a better truth architecture, you need a better trust architecture. I mean, when you think about it, I mean, we know firsthand so little of what we think we know and most of it comes from... It's why fixing the relational problems to me is as or more important as fixing the content problems. Because ultimately, if we don't change who peo... See more
Eli Pariser • How Urban Planning Could Help Build Better Online Spaces | On the Media | WNYC Studios
relieved in the pursuit of understanding. I’ve learned to fall in love with that word — understanding — because an understanding shows that we are connecting the dots in our mind, even if we disagree with the idea.