Posts Tagged "journal"

Crafting Puzzles

I started typing with the familiar sounds of my eight-year-old son echoing from the next room. He was in full-blown playful mode, his mom not so gently trying to get him to brush his teeth.

Through the window

I used to view my apartment as a boundary, a place that defines the inside—a small, or not-so-small, internal space that separates me from the outside world. It was the place I loved to hate during the COVID period, yet also a space we reshaped in many ways to support a different way of living.

Cybernetics

Cybernetics could also be seen as an evolutionary theory for machines. There is no need for machines to represent the world in order to achieve an output or result; instead, the focus is on the adaptive nature of machines and systems. One has to set the rules and relationships between systems, and according to those rules, systems evolve in their own way, which of course, relates back to the initial point.

Knowledge knitting

Eric Hobsbawm's style of writing history, using self-contained essays that can stand alone outside the context of their book, perfectly showcases how art, music, technology, economy, traditions, and seemingly unrelated changes shape the evolution of societies.

The Art of Transformation

In a sense, we are no more than the machines we create. We see, measure, evaluate, and predict the world through them, in a way that they form our extra senses.

In search of presence

What does it mean to be present nowadays? I'm with my son in the apartment, struggling to be present and listen to him read a story. I'm physically present but not really there.

Angel or Duke?

I have a friend who lives in an apartment with shelves full of books and walls covered with photographs of friends.

The power of habits

Habits are human automation, meaning a chain of responses to a specific stimulus, event, or situation. When we first get into a car, we struggle to change speed, look in the mirror, check all the electronics on the dashboard, and get ready to drive.