Sheena Iyengar. Hopefully some day that’s a name that doesn’t need much explaining in the same way I don’t need to explain Michael Jordan or Albert Einstein. But if you don’t know her, she’s a social psychology professor at Columbia University. And she’s Indian. And she’s blind. She was speaking in promotion of her book […]
January 20, 2011 by B.J.D.Armas
We don’t like shit that might appear to us “unwieldy” if were not specifically looking for it. “Unwieldy” means messy. “Messy” just means that we have no structure of concepts of how to understand how something or some things work. To deal with the unwieldy and messy, “bags” function as nice neat containers to place, […]
January 7, 2011 by B.J.D.Armas
A theoretical realization today: People will react more strongly to whatever is perceived as more unbreakable. What is “unbreakable” tends to be big categories, and systems, than things or persons perceived as “individuals.” A few definitions to understand that realization: “Categories” and “systems” is stuff like capitalism, socialism, police, all of which which contain defined […]
January 19, 2010 by B.J.D.Armas
Bastard, you took this idea and this idea.* Back in May, I wrote about how we in the globally urbanized American culture have “outsourced” a lot of our knowledge from our bodies to technologies. With that “outsourcing” to technologies, those technologies become “extensions of our minds.” I’ve been struck by how we continually outsource our […]
January 28, 2012 by B.J.D.Armas
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