[The Prometheus Shot – E006 :: Miyazaki’s Worldly Wisdom: My Story Garden ]
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Category: Culture
If *you* could imagine your heaven, how would you make it?
What is the ‘ideal outcome’ of our Great Work?
If you could shape the world, how would that go?
This post is related to “The Atlas of Worldly Wisdom“, a course on the integration of better learning, better planning, and better work, into creativeness.
[The Prometheus Shot – E003 :: Apple Crushed : Advertising, Brands, and Greatness ]
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[The Prometheus Shot – E002 :: The Three-Body Problem : Knowledge & Creativity in Great Sci-Fi ]
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[The Prometheus Shot – E001]
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Should you call someone an “Idiot” on social media? Should you explain things to trolls? Why aren’t people nice to strangers (especially when we can’t see their face)?
Extreme Imagination and Creativity (as in Sci-Fi and Fantasy) can be practical. They are useful as inspiration, for education, and even as inputs into scientific and engineering processes.
Here are a few thoughts on that.
I wrote a blog post about a few interesting books, including one titled “How the World Thinks”. A reader objected, saying that thinking is done by people… So, does ‘the World’ think?
Incompleteness, biases, Identities and Culture
How does culture morph from a force for understanding and creativity, into a limiting force that serves to inspire laziness and embolden BIRGERS? Approximate Thinking and Identities have an interesting relationship. The below discussion is based on sections from “Fuzzy on the Dark Side”.
What should I read?
With the millions of books out there, seekers of knowledge (and wisdom) will – expectedly – ask the question.. Where should I start?
The answers are usually disappointing. Why should you care about someone’s recommended readings list, after all?
Here’s an attempt to tackle this.