January 31, 2025

Learning

'We hope to help each other be good ancestors. We hope to preserve possibilities for the future.'

The Long Now Foundation, established in 1996, aims to foster long-term thinking and responsibility. They publish a great website, host regular gatherings, seminars, and maintain public spaces to promote discussions and share ideas about "slower/better" thinking, expanding time perspectives, and encouraging long-term accountability.

For me, they fulfill the role once played by the Whole Earth Catalog, CoEvolution Quarterly, and Whole Earth Review. This connection is unsurprising, given Stewart Brand’s key involvement in each of these projects.

The inaugural issue of Long Now’s annual print journal is now available. In their words, it "synthesizes the most important learnings of our first quarter-century." I’m savoring every page.

Article: Announcing Pace Layers

Learning

Complaints are a really lousy way to express and idea.

ARTICLE: Why You Should Stop Complaining

Learning

"Seriously, I mean starting right now. Do art and do it for the rest of your lives."

‍VIDEO: James Earl Jones reads Kurt Vonnegut's inspirational letter to a group of students

Learning

How learning to live with uncertainty about the past can help us make wiser decisions about the future

ARTICLE: The Lost Art Of Thinking Historically

Learning

Banned Books Week ends tomorrow. But young people still have free digital access to books that may be restricted in their communities.

ARTICLE: Books Unbanned: 1 Million Checkouts