Pogo was featured in Fast Company!  The moment you start industrializing anything and profit becomes a priority, now you have to start thinking. That’s why all mainstream music sounds the same at the end of the day, because it’s all about meeting a formula, it’s not about being creative or artistic or soulful. I think as you climb up that ladder of industrialism and commercialization and trying to please people, that’s when the brain starts to want to take over. I’ve always come into brick walls when I’ve gone down that avenue. If I kind of step backwards and just concentrate on feeling it out, instead of thinking it out, I’ve ended up making things like “Alice” and “White Magic” and “Expialidocious” and all of these things.

Pogo was featured in Fast Company! 

The moment you start industrializing anything and profit becomes a priority, now you have to start thinking. That’s why all mainstream music sounds the same at the end of the day, because it’s all about meeting a formula, it’s not about being creative or artistic or soulful. I think as you climb up that ladder of industrialism and commercialization and trying to please people, that’s when the brain starts to want to take over. I’ve always come into brick walls when I’ve gone down that avenue. If I kind of step backwards and just concentrate on feeling it out, instead of thinking it out, I’ve ended up making things like “Alice” and “White Magic” and “Expialidocious” and all of these things.

(via fastcompany)

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There’s an education bubble, which is, like the others, psychosocial. There’s a wide public buy-in that leads to a product being overvalued because it’s linked to future expectations that are unrealistic. Education is similar to the tech bubble of the late 1990s, which assumed crazy growth in businesses that didn’t pan out. The education bubble is predicated on the idea that the education provided is incredibly valuable. In many cases that’s just not true. Here and elsewhere people have avoided facing the fact of stagnation by telling themselves stories about familiar things leading to progress. One fake vector of progress is credentialing—first the undergraduate degree, then more advanced degrees. Like the others, it’s an avoidance mechanism.
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Peter Thiel

Oooh, kinky ideas are kinky. This is the societal myth of Higher Education (the discipline-based approach), which supports the myth that orients human life toward “Accessing the Unknown through Scientific Advancement through Technology”. But the mechanistic world view is not an appropriate perspective for organizing human life and society.

(Source: Fast Company, via fastcompany)

1 year ago  125 notes

Color-Changing Shirts Sniff Out Air Pollution

 When the detectors sniff out pollutants, a microcontroller sends electrical currents through the shirts, heating up wires that run under the internal organs (lungs or heart, depending on the shirt).

2 years ago 

Pogo was featured in Fast Company!  The moment you start industrializing anything and profit becomes a priority, now you have to start thinking. That’s why all mainstream music sounds the same at the end of the day, because it’s all about meeting a formula, it’s not about being creative or artistic or soulful. I think as you climb up that ladder of industrialism and commercialization and trying to please people, that’s when the brain starts to want to take over. I’ve always come into brick walls when I’ve gone down that avenue. If I kind of step backwards and just concentrate on feeling it out, instead of thinking it out, I’ve ended up making things like “Alice” and “White Magic” and “Expialidocious” and all of these things.

Pogo was featured in Fast Company! 

The moment you start industrializing anything and profit becomes a priority, now you have to start thinking. That’s why all mainstream music sounds the same at the end of the day, because it’s all about meeting a formula, it’s not about being creative or artistic or soulful. I think as you climb up that ladder of industrialism and commercialization and trying to please people, that’s when the brain starts to want to take over. I’ve always come into brick walls when I’ve gone down that avenue. If I kind of step backwards and just concentrate on feeling it out, instead of thinking it out, I’ve ended up making things like “Alice” and “White Magic” and “Expialidocious” and all of these things.

(via fastcompany)

There’s an education bubble, which is, like the others, psychosocial. There’s a wide public buy-in that leads to a product being overvalued because it’s linked to future expectations that are unrealistic. Education is similar to the tech bubble of the late 1990s, which assumed crazy growth in businesses that didn’t pan out. The education bubble is predicated on the idea that the education provided is incredibly valuable. In many cases that’s just not true. Here and elsewhere people have avoided facing the fact of stagnation by telling themselves stories about familiar things leading to progress. One fake vector of progress is credentialing—first the undergraduate degree, then more advanced degrees. Like the others, it’s an avoidance mechanism.
–

Peter Thiel

Oooh, kinky ideas are kinky. This is the societal myth of Higher Education (the discipline-based approach), which supports the myth that orients human life toward “Accessing the Unknown through Scientific Advancement through Technology”. But the mechanistic world view is not an appropriate perspective for organizing human life and society.

(Source: Fast Company, via fastcompany)

Color-Changing Shirts Sniff Out Air Pollution

 When the detectors sniff out pollutants, a microcontroller sends electrical currents through the shirts, heating up wires that run under the internal organs (lungs or heart, depending on the shirt).
"There’s an education bubble, which is, like the others, psychosocial. There’s a wide public buy-in that leads to a product being overvalued because it’s linked to future expectations that are unrealistic. Education is similar to the tech bubble of the late 1990s, which assumed crazy growth in businesses that didn’t pan out. The education bubble is predicated on the idea that the education provided is incredibly valuable. In many cases that’s just not true. Here and elsewhere people have avoided facing the fact of stagnation by telling themselves stories about familiar things leading to progress. One fake vector of progress is credentialing—first the undergraduate degree, then more advanced degrees. Like the others, it’s an avoidance mechanism."
Color-Changing Shirts Sniff Out Air Pollution

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