Podcast appearances and mentions of Howard Rheingold

Épisode 1284 : Un bâton c'est universel, c'est palpable, ça nous rattache tous à l'Enfance, à la nature et même rien qu'e. Le regardant, en le touchant, il peut faire travailler notre imagination. Quand j'étais gosse, un bâton devenait une épée, un fusil, un club de golf, ça c'était mon histoire perso, mais qu'en est-il de tous les autres, tous ceux qui ont une affinité pour les bâtons au travers du monde ? Et bien quelque part sur Instagram, une communauté les réunit tous: La Stick NationUne communauté née dans la forêt… et sur InternetTout a commencé avec un seul bâton trouvé sur le bord d'un sentier de l'Utah en 2023. Boone Hogg et Logan Jugler trouve le bâton parfait. « un excellent grain dessus » et une « bonne adhérence ». Il décide de créer un compte pour les collectionneurs de bâtons. En quelques jours, d'autres collectionneurs sortent de l'ombre. Ils exposent leurs plus belles trouvailles.Aujourd'hui « Stick Nation » c'est un mouvement mondial rassemblant plusieurs millions de personnes. Sur Instagram le compte @officialstickreview publie les vidéos de ses membres et de leurs bâtons.—Langage commun et folklore partagéComme toute vraie communauté, la Stick Nation a ses codes, son vocabulaire, ses running jokes.On ne parle pas de “branches”, mais de “sticks”. On ne jette pas un stick, on le “libère dans la nature”. Il existe des catégories : le “Wizard Stick” (long et tordu, parfait pour un cosplay de Gandalf), le “Stubby Stick” (petit mais costaud), ou encore le “Sentinel Stick” (garde la maison).—StickNation c'est une vraie communauté au sens anthropologiqueUne communauté, c'est plus que des gens qui aiment la même chose. C'est un groupe structuré autour d'une culture partagée.Les anthropologues comme Howard Rheingold ou Henry Jenkins parlent de “communautés intentionnelles” : elles se forment autour d'un intérêt commun, mais se développent grâce à des rituels, un langage, une mythologie.—Pourquoi ça marche ? Parce que c'est absurde ET communautaireLe succès de la Stick Nation repose sur un équilibre savoureux entre ironie et sincérité.D'un côté, on est dans le second degré. Oui, c'est “juste” des bouts de bois. Mais en faire un objet de culte, c'est drôle. C'est l'anti-bling, l'anti-contenu parfait.Mais de l'autre, on sent aussi une vraie envie de partage. Un besoin de connexion simple et tangible. Le bâton devient un prétexte à la rencontre, au récit, à la créativité.C'est une forme de slow content. On prend le temps de chercher, de regarder, de raconter.—La preuve que même les idées les plus WTF peuvent fédérerLa Stick Nation, c'est aussi une leçon pour les marques et les créateurs de contenu. Il ne faut jamais sous-estimer la puissance du collectif.À l'heure où les algorithmes poussent à l'uniformisation, ces micro-communautés sont des bulles d'authenticité. Et elles peuvent avoir une influence immense.Retrouvez toutes les notes de l'épisode sur www.lesuperdaily.com ! . . . Le Super Daily est le podcast quotidien sur les réseaux sociaux. Il est fabriqué avec une pluie d'amour par les équipes de Supernatifs. Nous sommes une agence social media basée à Lyon : https://supernatifs.com. Ensemble, nous aidons les entreprises à créer des relations durables et rentables avec leurs audiences. Ensemble, nous inventons, produisons et diffusons des contenus qui engagent vos collaborateurs, vos prospects et vos consommateurs. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Art Bell - Howard Rheingold - The Internet

Subscribe, Rate, & Comment on YouTube • Apple Podcasts • Spotify If you value this series, please consider becoming a patron here on Substack or with tax-deductible donations at every.org/humansontheloop (you'll get perks either way).Our next members hangout will be Saturday Feb 15th at 3 pm Mountain Time and I would love to see you in the mix! Expect details on how to join the call by Friday.About This EpisodeWe live in a time defined by the agency of what author, critic, and teacher Howard Rheingold famously described as “tools for thought” — media that expand our minds and enhance our ability to learn and collaborate, both for good and ill. But just because we're on the Web doesn't make us “net smart”, another term from Rheingold's extensive catalogue of pithy idioms. As anyone with a pocket supercomputer can attest, having information on tap doesn't necessarily result in better attention management, boost our critical thinking, or confer a greater capacity to engage in prosocial collective action…but we can choose to allocate ourselves to developing the skills we need to thrive on this electronic frontier. And who better to help us than Rheingold himself, a legendary figure whose reporting and counsel from the frothy edge can teach us all great volumes about how to deepen our humanity in technologically-augmented worlds.Disclaimer: the audio and video on Howard's end of the recording drifted unevenly and sometimes minutes away from each other…and while I put in several extra days of effort to repair it all, you will notice moments where they don't line up. Project Links• Read the project pitch & planning doc• Dig into the full episode and essay archives• Join the online commons for Wisdom x Technology on Discord + Bluesky + X• Join the open, listener-moderated Future Fossils Discord Server• Contact me if you have questions (patron rewards, sponsorship, collaboration, etc.)• Browse the HOTL reading list and support local booksellersChapters0:00:00 - Teaser0:01:50 - Intro0:07:15 - Howard's Story0:15:59 - Technology as Psychedelic & The New Selves of The Web0:26:42 - Attention Management as A 21st Century Literacy0:39:29 - Making Life Online a Lucid Dream0:52:17 - New Architectures of Participation1:01:51 - The Importance of Art & Play1:12:16 - Making Room for Innovation1:17:05 - Howard's Guest Recommendations1:18:24 - Thanks & AnnouncementsHoward's LinksWebsite | Patreon | X | Mastodon | WikipediaAttention: And Other 21st Century LiteraciesNet Smart @ Google Tech Talks (video)Tools for Thought: The History & Future of Mind-Expanding Technology (also on Digital Library for The Commons)Net Smart: How to Thrive Online (also on JSTOR)The Peeragogy Handbook (also public domain)Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (PDF here)Virtual Reality (also on Internet Archive)The Virtual Community: Homesteading on The Electronic Frontier (also on Internet Archive)Pataphysics.usMentioned Books & PapersDouglas Engelbart - Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual FrameworkLinda Stone - Beyond Simple Multi-Tasking: Continuous Partial AttentionJacques Ellul - The Technological SocietyRegina Rini - Deepfakes and The Epistemic BackstopPuja Ohlhaver, Vitalik Buterin, Glen Weyl - Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's SoulJoseph Henrich - The Secret of Our SuccessElinor Ostrom - Governing The Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective ActionJ. Stephen Lansing - Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in BaliAnanyo Bhattacharya - The Man from The Future: The Visionary Life of John von NeumannGarrett Hardin - The Tragedy of The CommonsManuel Castells - The Rise of The Network SocietyAnnie Murphy Paul - The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the BrainMentioned People & InstitutionsTimothy LearyJoe KamiyaAlan KayClay ShirkyRichard DoyleRay KurzweilLinda StoneIain McGilchristClifford Nass Stanislas DehaeneTim O'ReillyCory DoctorowAndreas WagnerDavid PasiakDave SnowdenMircea EliadeEd CatmullJohn LasseterAlan TuringXeroc PARCScientific AmericanThe WELLThe Whole Earth ReviewThe Institute For The FutureThe Macarthur FoundationNapsterBurning ManHewlett PackardPixarIndustrial Light & MagicLucasfilmStanford Institute for Innovations in LearningGuest RecommendationsJoe HenrichAnnie Murphy PaulBrian AlexanderAthena Aktipis This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe

Ep429-Art Bell-Howard Rheingold-The Internet

I dug through the archives and found this old essay I wrote many years ago about Lucid Dreaming, and thought I'd share it on the podcast for all of you to listen to, as I realized I haven't shared any new podcasts in a while. Lucid dreaming represents a powerful state of consciousness where the dreamer becomes aware they are dreaming and can sometimes influence the unfolding dream narrative. This capability opens doors to extraordinary dimensions, serving as an inspiration for artists and as a tool for personal and spiritual exploration. It echoes the limitless possibilities seen in stories like The Matrix, where reality is malleable and deeply interconnected with our perceptions and beliefs.Lucid dreaming allows us to tap into our subconscious in ways that can directly benefit our waking lives. It's been shown that this altered state can enhance creativity, problem-solving, and emotional processing, giving us tools to better navigate challenges we face in our day-to-day lives. For instance, Dr. Stephen LaBerge, a pioneer in lucid dream research, has demonstrated how athletes, artists, and musicians can practice skills in their dreams to improve performance when awake. His research suggests that the brain cannot distinguish between the actions taken in dreams and those in reality, meaning you can enhance your abilities while you sleep. This means that the actions taken in a lucid dream, for example practicing an instrument, affect the brain the same way as if you were practicing the instrument while awake. (citation) His book, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, co-written with Howard Rheingold, provides a comprehensive guide to understanding and harnessing the power of lucid dreams.I hope you'll enjoy this podcast!

How do we teach digital media skills in an engaging way? Explore the history of this concept with Howard Rheingold. Teach Better Talk Podcast The ultimate must-listen for every teacher and educational leader, Teach Better Talk dives into the key questions that drive education today. Weekly interviews with experts from around the world, sharing cutting-edge science, groundbreaking research, and practical tools to help you master the art of teaching, efficiently manage a school, and reach every learner in your community. Catch the official podcast of the Teach Better Podcast Network every Tuesday through Thursday for fresh episodes to inspire, inform, and ignite your passion for education. ► Thanks for subscribing!

Jorge Arango is an Information architect, author, and educator, and he's written a new book, Duly Noted, about the age-old practice of notetaking. If you're like me, you've been taking notes since your school days. Back then, we used notebooks, a Trapper Keeper, and sticky notes – anything that could help us ace a test, remember important tidbits, and consolidate ideas. Notes are an extension of the mind. But it was always a headache to organize them, synthesize them, and recall them at the right time. Enter the digital age – which tried to improve on the humble art of notetaking, but apps like Notes and Stickies tried to replicate digitally what we were using in the real world. Newer apps like Obsidian let go of real-world metaphors by utilizing three principles: shorter notes, connecting your notes, and nurturing your notes to build a knowledge garden that will serve you for the rest of your life. If you bring value to the world through your thinking, you have the responsibility to look after your thinking apparatus. Duly Noted will augment, magnify, and extend your capacity to think well. Externalizing your mental processes is one of the most powerful means we have to think better. If used well, the humble note will help you be a better thinker and a more effective human. What you'll learn from this episode: - A history of notetaking tools - Why notetaking is a personal endeavor - How digital notetaking tools have evolved - About Jorge's new book and how, upon reading it, you just might become a better thinker and increase your effectiveness Quick Reference Guide [0:00:12] Introduction of Jorge and his books [0:01:18] Introduction of Jorge's new book on taking notes and creating a knowledge garden, Duly Noted [0:09:47] Books that will make you a better knowledge worker [0:14:14] Design in Product Conference [0:15:35] Managing knowledge with computers [0:26:03] Knowledge as a garden [0:28:09] On tools for nurturing a knowledge garden [0:33:08] How Jorge uses AI with Obsidian [0:36:37] Jorge's gift for listeners Resources and links from today's episode: Information Architecture for the Web and Beyond by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, and Jorge Arango https://www.amazon.com/Information-Architecture-Beyond-Louis-Rosenfeld/dp/1491911689 Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital Places by Jorge Arango https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/living-in-information/ Duly Noted by Jorge Arango https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/duly-noted-extend-your-mind-through-connected-notes/ O'Reilly's book Mind Hacks by Tom Stafford https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/mind-hacks/0596007795/ Tools for Thought by Howard Rheingold www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/ Design in Product Conference, November 29 https://rosenfeldmedia.com/design-in-product/ Roam Research https://roamresearch.com/ Obsidian https://obsidian.md/ The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain by Annie Murphy Paul https://anniemurphypaul.com/books/the-extended-mind/ Figure it Out: Getting from Information to Understanding by Karl Fast and Stephen Anderson https://www.amazon.com/Figure-Out-Getting-Information-Understanding-ebook/dp/B085412Q1X Build a PKG (Personal Knowledge Garden) Workshop https://buildapkg.com

Lucid Dreaming - Conscious awareness during the dream state - is an exhilarating experience. Because the world you are experiencing is one of your own creations, you can do the impossible and consciously influence the outcome of your dreams. Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming goes far beyond the confines of pop dream psychology, establishing a scientifically researched framework for using lucid dreaming. Based on Dr. Stephen LaBerge's extensive laboratory work at Stanford University mapping mind/body relationships during the dream state, as well as the teachings of Tibetan dream yogis and the work of other scientists, including German psychologist Paul Tholey, this practical workbook will show you how to use your dreams to: • Solve problems • Gain greater confidence • Improve creativity • Face and overcome fears and inhibitions • Create a new sense of empowerment and liberation in your life  Stephen LaBerge और Howard Rheingold द्वारा "Exploring The World Of Lucid Dreaming" आपको सपनों की दुनिया में ले जाती है जहां आप सपनों के पीछे के science को समझेंगे। आप देखेंगे कि सपने आपके पास कैसे आते हैं और कैसे आप स्वास्थ्य और motivation हासिल करने के लिए सपनों का उपयोग कर सकते हैं।  Read Book Summary: https://readersbooksclub.com/ Watch us on YT:    / readersbooksclub   Connect with us on: Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/readersbook... Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/readersbooks... Telegram : https://telegram.me/readersbooksclub Twitter : https://twitter.com/readerbooksclub

Lucid Dreaming - Conscious awareness during the dream state - is an exhilarating experience. Because the world you are experiencing is one of your own creations, you can do the impossible and consciously influence the outcome of your dreams. Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming goes far beyond the confines of pop dream psychology, establishing a scientifically researched framework for using lucid dreaming. Based on Dr. Stephen LaBerge's extensive laboratory work at Stanford University mapping mind/body relationships during the dream state, as well as the teachings of Tibetan dream yogis and the work of other scientists, including German psychologist Paul Tholey, this practical workbook will show you how to use your dreams to: • Solve problems • Gain greater confidence • Improve creativity • Face and overcome fears and inhibitions • Create a new sense of empowerment and liberation in your life  Stephen LaBerge और Howard Rheingold द्वारा "Exploring The World Of Lucid Dreaming" आपको सपनों की दुनिया में ले जाती है जहां आप सपनों के पीछे के science को समझेंगे। आप देखेंगे कि सपने आपके पास कैसे आते हैं और कैसे आप स्वास्थ्य और motivation हासिल करने के लिए सपनों का उपयोग कर सकते हैं।  Read Book Summary: https://readersbooksclub.com/ Watch us on YT:    / readersbooksclub   Connect with us on: Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/readersbook... Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/readersbooks... Telegram : https://telegram.me/readersbooksclub Twitter : https://twitter.com/readerbooksclub

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Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking basket cases? In Net Smart, cyberculture expert Howard Rheingold shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully. Mindful use of digital media means thinking about what we are doing, cultivating an ongoing inner inquiry into how we want to spend our time. Rheingold outlines five fundamental digital literacies, online skills that will help us do this: attention, participation, collaboration, critical consumption of information (or "crap detection"), and network smarts. He explains how attention works, and how we can use our attention to focus on the tiny relevant portion of the incoming tsunami of information. He describes the quality of participation that empowers the best of the bloggers, netizens, tweeters, and other online community participants; he examines how successful online collaborative enterprises contribute new knowledge to the world in new ways; and he teaches us a lesson on networks and network building. Rheingold points out that there is a bigger social issue at work in digital literacy, one that goes beyond personal empowerment. If we combine our individual efforts wisely, it could produce a more thoughtful society: countless small acts like publishing a Web page or sharing a link could add up to a public good that enriches everybody. Howard Rheingold, an influential writer and thinker on social media, is the author ofTools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (both published by the MIT Press), and Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking basket cases? In Net Smart, cyberculture expert Howard Rheingold shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully. Mindful use of digital media means thinking about what we are doing, cultivating an ongoing inner inquiry into how we want to spend our time. Rheingold outlines five fundamental digital literacies, online skills that will help us do this: attention, participation, collaboration, critical consumption of information (or "crap detection"), and network smarts. He explains how attention works, and how we can use our attention to focus on the tiny relevant portion of the incoming tsunami of information. He describes the quality of participation that empowers the best of the bloggers, netizens, tweeters, and other online community participants; he examines how successful online collaborative enterprises contribute new knowledge to the world in new ways; and he teaches us a lesson on networks and network building. Rheingold points out that there is a bigger social issue at work in digital literacy, one that goes beyond personal empowerment. If we combine our individual efforts wisely, it could produce a more thoughtful society: countless small acts like publishing a Web page or sharing a link could add up to a public good that enriches everybody. Howard Rheingold, an influential writer and thinker on social media, is the author ofTools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (both published by the MIT Press), and Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

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Howard Rheingold joins Jon and Scoop for a discussion that includes virtual communities, social media, AI and chatbots, media education, good vs bad on the Internet, cultural evolution, and tools…

Venessa Paech is an internationally regarded online community strategist with over 25 years of experience building community online. Venessa is also a PhD candidate studying the intersection of AI and community, and a global authority on communities and community management. In the first Cohere episode of 2023, Venessa joins Bill Johnston and Dr. Lauren Vargas to discuss the quickly evolving role of AI in our digital experiences, how AI is currently playing a role in online communities, and what the future may hold regarding our collective relationship with AI. Key Quote: "It's still a relationship business. It's just we now have relationships with tools and machines in a new way:  in a more anthropomorphized way and in ways that mimic our own thinking and behavior sufficiently that we do need to recontextualize them. So how do we do that in a way that still prioritizes and centers the human work of what we're doing and brings us to those core community protocols of: How are we building a healthy, thriving, constructive space for constituents? is it accessible? Is it productive in meaningful ways? Is it relevant? And honoring the context, always honoring our context, which is one of the biggest problems we do see with so many different sorts of automated and or AI tools, is they tend to flatten and standardize context because that is how they operate. … But for community, which is typically a smaller, more intimate, and more nuanced sort of cluster of relations and ties, that does not work.”    Resources From This Episode: All things In Moderation Conference:   SWARM (Australia's Community Management Conference):   Australian Community Managers:   Books: by Kate Crawford by Carrie Melissa Jones and Charles Vogl by Howard Rheingold by Adrian Speyer by Howard Rheingold Venessa's scholarship:   Where to find Venessa:   

#239 - Da Chi Ho ImparatoChi sono i miei ispiratori? Chi ha modellato il mio modo di vedere e di pensare alla comunicazione?Quando ho detto ad un mio allievo che non si può essere unici e originali se prima non si impara a copiare, lui ha detto: “Ah, ma allora, i miei guru, quelli a cui io guardo come i massimi esperti, chi ci li ha messi li dove sono? Da chi hanno imparato? Chi li ha ispirati? Da chi hanno copiato prima di trovare la loro strada?Robin, ma chi sono stati i tuoi maestri? Ecco una prima lista, certamente incompleta, ma significativa:• Stephen Covey - arte della disciplina personale - habits• Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson - arte del gestire in maniera semplice, ma efficace le cose complesse• Clement Mok (DADI) - strategia di design e progettazione• Saul Wurman - information architecture• Jeff Walker - strategia di vendita• Frank Kearn - fare marketing senza fare apparentemente i saputi, ma invece essendo simpatici, affabili• Edward Tufte - information design• Karen Schriver - information design• Kevin Kelly - 1000 true fans - Whole Earth Catalog • Robert Scoble - esploratore instancabile di tecnologie, gran curatore e condivisore• Jeff Jarvis - giornalismo• Doc Searls, Steve Gillmor, David Weinberger (Cluetrain Manifesto)• Ted Nelson - collective intelligence• Howard Rheingold - critical thinking• Maria Popova - curation• Rohit Barghava - curation• Harold Jarche - personal knowledge management• Alan Watts - peace of mind • Carlos Castaneda - path with a heart• Timothy Leary - evolution, psychology• John Lilly - deep mind, human-dolphin• Erich Fromm - love-------------Info Utili• Ottieni feedback, ricevi consigli sul tuo progetto online Entra nella comunità di imprenditori indipendenti di Robin Goodhttps://robingood.it • Musica di questa puntata: "Ergo" by Birocratic - disponibile su Bandcamp:https://birocratic.bandcamp.com/track/ergo• Nella foto di copertina: Gli occhi pieni di stupore e curiosità di Leo, il mio primo nipote. (2015)• Dammi feedback:critiche, commenti, suggerimenti, idee e domande unendoti al gruppo Telegram https://t.me/@RobinGoodPodcastFeedback• Ascolta e condividi questo podcast:https://www.spreaker.com/show/dabrandafriend • Seguimi su Telegram:https://t.me/RobinGoodItalia (tutti i miei contenuti, immagini, audio e video in un solo canale) • Newsletter:Robingood.substack.com (ENG) Robingooditalia.substack.com (ITA) • Per info e richieste:mailto: Ludovica.Scarfiotti@robingood.it

Kevin Driscoll, author and associate professor of Media Studies at University of Virginia, discusses the history of BBSs, or bulletin board systems, and how they have been overlooked as part of the history of the internet. Developing out of his early experiences with local online communities, Kevin approaches the history of the internet from a grassroots perspective, offering up true stories and examples of how everyday people developed communities online. He outlines how BBSs, from the late 1970s to the 1980s, develop from a space for computer club members to share information to a place where marginalized groups, for example gay men, could gather online. Using BBS lists that were either regional or interest-oriented, Driscoll has been able to uncover the various communities and practices of early online interactions that laid the groundwork for contemporary online social groups and platforms.A full transcript of this episode will be available soon!Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Kevin Driscoll BioBook, The Modem WorldFred Turner's Research on The WellHoward Rheingold's Research on The WellByte Magazine Vol. 3 number 11 featuring Christensen and Suess Article on CBBSsKristen Haring's Work on Postwar Ham Radio CultureSusan Douglas' Work on Ham Radio CultureCharlton McIlwain's Work on AfroNetRelevant Background Information: WIRED Article on The WellMinitelQuartz Article on Stacy Horne and EchoMIT  Project Athena Internet as Third SpaceSherry Turkle Amy BruckmanCheck out our previous episodes with Howard Rheingold and Sherry TurkleShare your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com.Music:“In Time” by Dylan Emmett ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q

Maybe it was a factor of exhaustion with everything going on – trying to orchestrate my mother's rescue from Florida, plus navigating a forthcoming job change – but I have not recorded but one podcast episode since last Wednesday when I found out my mother was in the midst of Hurricane Ian. However, I have just listened to five audiobooks over this past weekend. And now that I am feeling a bit more rested and settled, with my brother on his way to Florida even now to get our mother and bring her back here to Colorado while things get settled with cleanup and insurance, et cetera, I would like to get back into podcasting. And, yes, I did listen to five audiobooks over the weekend. This was good to get my mind off other things, but not tiring to hear so much as I was feeling tired from speaking for a bit. So what did I listen to, and what did I make of what I heard? Let me tell you all about it. First, I listened to 'The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity' by Carlo M. Cipolla. I found his work here, published in 1988, to be mean, unfunny, and condescending, though I was lead to believe on the front-end that it was supposed to be humorous. It reminded me too much of ‘Nudge' and ‘The Undoing Project,' and I suppose it could be seen as a cousin to those works. This is a short book, but that's hardly as much a redeeming quality as a mercy. I did not like it, and it got on my nerves. The fact that there are so many stupid people is too obvious. How we talk about this fact, and relate to it – that is my concern. Second, I took in 'Beauty: A Very Short Introduction' by Roger Scruton. Published in 2009, this work by Scruton – esteemed British conservative political philosopher is indeed philosophical, and much more contemporary. Scruton references Burke's earlier work, of course, which I have also read and reviewed, and admittedly liked better, as much or more because of it being older. But this treatment by Scruton is high-minded, very British, and intellectual, as well as more academic in a way that is less forgivable for having been written in 2009 instead of 1757. Next was 'The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics' by Kevin D. Williamson. This work reminded me of Tom Wolfe in Radical Chic and Mau-mauing the Flak-Catchers, but it was not as pleasant a work as either of those. But Williamson is not as good a writer as Wolfe by a long shot. One of the most annoying features of this book, published in 2019, was the constant pandering potshots at Trump and his supporters. The final word on him to my way of thinking is that he reminds me too much of the atheist kid in high school trying to mock and argue everyone into renouncing Christianity. After that was 'Science and Technology,' a collection of interviews with Neil Postman, Jane Metcalfe, Howard Rheingold, Mark Slouka, Andrew Kimbrell, Doug Groothius, Dean Kenyon, Philip Johnson, and Michael Behe. If I have two criticisms of this collection of interviews, it is that they are too short and more thinking out loud to frame the problem than prescribing what we can do about any of it. This is more a chronicle than a tonic, perhaps. Last, but certainly not least, I read 'A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland,' by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. And when I say this was not least, what I really mean is that this was my favorite by a good bit of the five books I read this weekend. Written first-hand by both men, then compiled together after their traveling in 1773, this was a charming and elegantly phrased collection of character sketches of the people and places and country. Johnson comments on the migration of Scots to America, for instance. And I know the Acts of Union, plus other related contentions, drove a lot of Scots to emigrate to America. This having been true of my MacFarlane ancestors on my maternal grandmother's side, he has my undivided attention. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/garrett-ashley-mullet/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/garrett-ashley-mullet/support

Howard Rheingold is author of Tools For Thought, The Virtual Community, and Smart Mobs, Net Smart; editor of Whole Earth Review, and Millennium Whole Earth Catalog; Lecturer, Social Media Literacies, Stanford. You can find Howard on Twitter @hrheingold and Patreon @howardrheingold.   For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/howard-rheingold-author-of-tools-for-thought/   If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fantastic tools by 150 notable creators, available in both Color or B&W on Amazon: https://geni.us/fourfavoritetools

Howard Rheingold is an eminent author, maker, and educator. His work has explored and defined key aspects of digital culture, including the use of computers as tools for mind augmentation, virtual communities, and social media literacy. In this conversation, we discuss computers as extensions for our minds, Douglas Engelbart's unfinished revolution, basic literacies for interacting in information environments, and the resurgence of Tools for Thought.Photo by Joi Ito (CC BY 2.0)Show notesHoward Rheingold (rheingold.com)Howard's PatreonTools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology by Howard RheingoldThe Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier by Howard RheingoldNet Smart: How to Thrive Online by Howard RheingoldHotWiredWhole Earth CatalogInstitute for the FutureXerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)Steve JobsBill GatesDouglas EngelbartJohn von NeumannAlan TuringGeorge BooleCharles BabbageAlan KayMother of All Demos (Wikipedia)Stanford Research InstituteSam WineburgRoam ResearchObsidianDEVONthinkThe BrainJerry MichalskiJerry's BrainRender(); Tools for Thinking conferenceBrian EnoScenius, or Communal Genius by Kevin KellyShow notes include Amazon affiliate links. I get a small commission for purchases made through these links.

“Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.” -Howard Rheingold. An attention analysis exercise to do right now or the next time you're in front of your computer. And what it has to do with your writing. Join the author conversation: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors/ Learn more about YDWH and catch up on old episodes: www.yourdailywritinghabit.com

Please visit the YouTube link to subscribe and submit questions and comments!How can we anticipate and change the negative effects of climate change, terrorism, water scarcity, and aging populations? Causal Layered Analysis may be a method we can use to shape the future in a positive way.In this episode, we interview Sohail Inayatullah, who developed the discipline of Causal Layered Analysis, and Ivana Milojević, who wrote the first PhD thesis on CLA 20 years ago. Ivana is also the author of The Futures of Education: Pedagogies for an Emergent World.Members of the Peeragogy Project recently used CLA as one of several tools to support distributed learning and creativity in paper for Pattern Languages of Programs 2021. The paper will also appear in the forthcoming collected volume “CLA 3.0: 30 Years of Transformative and Critical Futures Research.”  A preprint of our article is available.Join us to explore the future of Causal Layered Analysis, and its implications for learning!Read more about CLA and our guests on Wikipedia.IN THE BOOTH:  HOST: Charlie Danoff, Peeragogy Project EPISODE PRODUCER: Joe Corneli, Peeragogy Project PRODUCER: Charlotte Pierce, The Peeragogy Project EPISODE LINKS:  The Peeragogy Project Pierce Press Productions

Our guest for this episode is Howard Rheingold, a critic, writer, and teacher who specializes in the cultural, social, and political implications of modern communication media. Howard wrote about the earliest personal computers at Xerox PARC, and he was also one of the early users of the Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link or The WELL, an influential early online community. In 1994, he was hired as the founding executive director of HotWired. He is the author of several books, including The Virtual Community, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, and Net Smart: How to Thrive Online. In this conversation, Howard talks about transitioning from typewriters to computers and the potentials of virtual communities – to both serve as think tanks and form personal connections. He talks about recognizing “signals” of what was to come with telephones and computers and the early collective action that the smartphone encouraged. Finally, he describes five media literacies that everyone should master if they want to use social media well. Click here for this episode's transcript, and here for this episode's show notes.

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Howard Rheingold is a writer known for his specialty covering the development of virtual communities. He was one of the first authors, critics, and teachers to treat the internet as a social and cultural environment and pioneered new ways of talking about social media in his book The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. He went on to write numerous books about the power of the human mind and social media that pulled from his experiences being involved in one of the first virtual communities called the WELL, being the executive editor of Wired Magazine's HotWired, and founding Electric Minds, another prominent early virtual community. He's also known for his spectacular painted shoes.

In this episode of Masters of Community, we speak with Howard Rheingold, a veteran of the art of community, a writer, and a teacher known for his insights on the cultural, social, and political implications of technology. Howard pioneered the term “virtual community” by first speaking and educating students at Harvard University about the issues of using social media at scale. This episode is all about lessons from the origins of community, back when the internet barely existed. Howard takes us back to the good-ol' days of in-person-only communities. We examine why communities form in real life and how businesses can help sustain communities around their products and customers. Lastly, we talk about what the future of community looks like. Who is this episode for? Community professionals (beginners and experienced) and community historians. Three key takeaways: 1. The common thread of community: Long before the internet arrived, people gathered in groups to support each other during difficult times and to party. All the feelings of mutual aid, love, hate, and companionship have always been a part of our society in different ways. When online communities - such as Facebook, Twitter, or Clubhouse - evolved, it initially made people uncomfortable because “talking to strangers online” was considered weird. Online groups have now become synonymous with the idea of community and our social identity. 2. Why communities form: People coalesce into communities to gain knowledge capital, social capital, and communion. Every piece of knowledge shared could give you ten times more knowledge in return. If you are there for people in need, they will be there for you when you need them. This persists outside of formal frameworks like laws, families, and professional teams. Finding people with whom you share an innate emotional bond is also a major driver and indeed a true indicator of community. 3. Turning transactional conversations into business communities: Start by answering basic insight questions about members, the reasons behind forming the community, and a plan behind managing it. Pay experienced moderators/hosts to ensure that they are not the only ones maintaining decorum and that the first-time participants come back to engage repeatedly. Notable Quotes: 1. “My really simple definition of a community is a group of people who share something in common who communicate regularly. So that could be face-to-face or it could be [online].” 2. “Long before dating apps, how did people find dates? They went to bars and talked to strangers. How different it is to say ‘I'm interested in butterfly collecting. Who else is interested in butterfly collecting?” 3. “Social capital does not automatically happen. It's something that you have to build. You have to give out to others before others will give to you and you have to knit something together.” 4. “Facebook groups [are good in that there are] groups for parents of children with rare diseases and other kinds of mutual aid. But I think you are also exposed to a lot of misinformation, disinformation, and hate through the same platform.” 5. “In good communities, it's not just the professionals who are paid to do so. They cultivate an atmosphere where people want to have a more diverse community and the larger community enlarges their prospects as well. So everybody should be a welcomer and a helper.” 6. “You're not going to have a community unless you can convince the people who first come to not only continue, but to invite their friends.” Answers to rapid-fire questions: 1. If you could only eat one kind of food for the rest of your life, what would it be? Apricots and avocados. 2. What's your favorite book to give as a gift to others? One of Ursula K. Le Guin's books. 3. The wildest community story? Bringing back a sick member of the Wells community from Nepal back to the US by jumping through bureaucratic hoops and using social capital to find assistance. 4. Have you ever worn socks with sandals? Must have worn it at some point in the past. 5. What's your go-to community engagement, tactic, or conversation starter? Finding what people are interested in and how many people are interested in the same thing. 6. Who in the world of the community would you most like to take out to lunch? Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg out to lunch to tell them what a horrible, horrible thing they're doing to the world. 7. What's a community product or technology that you wish existed? Identify people who would be a good community if they only knew of each other. 8. What's the weirdest community you've ever been a part of? On the Well, there was a conference called Weird where people could come up with fun stuff and be irresponsible. 9. What's a question I didn't ask you that I should have? The question is “Would we be better off if social media had never happened?”

Learn more about Howard:Check out Howard's websiteFollow Howard on TwitterRead Howard's Thoughts on MediumSupport Howard's knowledge-sharing, art, and discourse on his PatreonWatch Howard's TED Talk: Way-new CollaborationBooks by Howard RheingoldTools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding TechnologyNet Smart: How to Thrive OnlineThe Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic FrontierEpisode resources:The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community your Competitive AdvantageLearn More About CMX Summit 2021: RiseBook Tickets for CMX Summit 2021: RiseSend episode feedback to pod@cmxhub.comIf you enjoyed this episode then please either:Subscribe, rate, and review on Apple PodcastsFollow on Spotify

  Book: God, School, 9/11 and JFK by Bruce de Torres: Paperback, Kindle How Bruce got interested in 9/11 and the JFK case Documentary: Zeitgeist by Peter Joseph Documentary: America: Freedom to Fascism by Aaron Russo FREE Download Ebook: The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin If people are scared, they'll believe and follow whatever plan is presented to them Video: The collapse of WTC Building 7 FREE BORROWABLE EBOOK: Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs The "accidental" car crash and death of journalist Michael Hastings in 2013 The murder of Seth Rich If someone watches the fall of WTC-7 & doesn't think there's something wrong, then he can be convinced of anything The emperor's new clothes Bruce's website: www.brucedetorres.com Bruce can be reached at bruce@brucedetorres.com Video: "God Loves You and He Always Needs More Money": George Carlin Operation Northwoods (PDF) Listen to this amazing 2-hour episode featuring Doug Horne about the Pearl Harbor attack Video: Documents Reveal Obama/Bush/Trump Lied Repeatedly About Afghan War (The Jimmy Dore Show) Video: Secret Government Documents Predicted Afghan Disaster (The Jimmy Dore Show) We are groomed for the world since kindergarten "All persons are hypnotized from infancy by the culture in which they grow up. The prime task of adult life is dehypnotization, enlightenment" - Willis Harman and Howard Rheingold "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone" - Pablo Picasso Nazi tactics being used today to censor free speech during this "pandemic" There's a chapter titled Covid-19 in the book The Rockefellers were talking about vaccine passports 10 years ago Bruce's facebook profile God, School, 9/11 and JFK facebook page Part B: Larry Schnapf & Mark Adamcyzk; beginning at 1:11:17 Larry Schnapf, Bill Simpich, et al to send a letter to the President asking him to issue an executive order instructing the agencies to release the rest of the records The letter has been delivered to the President Please call the White House switchboard @ 202-456-1414 The archivist will provide recommendations to the President on Sept 26 regarding the release of the files Larry & Mark to contact journalists to get media spotlight on this issue The archivist has no power under the JFK Records Act Part C: Jeremy Kuzmarov; beginning at 1:34:58 Jeremy Kuzmarov is Managing Editor of CovertAction Magazine He's also the author of four books on US foreign policy Book: Obama's Unending Wars by Jeremy Kuzmarov: Paperback, Kindle Book: The Russians are Coming, Again by Jeremy Kuzmarov: Paperback, Kindle Article: US Government Withholding Hundreds of Pages About 1967 Israeli Attack on US Navy Ship by Kuzmarov All articles by Jeremy Kuzmarov (at Covert Action Magazine) Jeremy can be reached at jkuzmarov2@gmail.com Article: Major Midwest University Hires Under-Secretary of the Army as President by Nick Alexandrov The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex Part D: Scott Enyart; beginning at 1:46:15 Scott Enyart was present in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel the night Bobby Kennedy was shot He took several photos that night just seconds before and after the shooting began Scott Enyart has appeared on the Black Op Radio several times over the years Scott's first interview on BOR: episode 12 (year 2000 = first season) Purchase the entire first season here for just $10 How the LAPD confiscated Scott's photographs from the ambassador hotel Scott's fight to get his roll (negatives) back The press was banned from the court during Scott's trial Articles: The Nearness of History: Scott Enyart vs. LAPD on the RFK Photos by David Manning: Part 1 (read online), Part 2 (PDF) Scott also worked on many album covers for rock-and-roll and movie posters Album cover photographed by Scott Enyart

The Whole Earth ‘lectronic Link, or WELL, was started by Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant in 1985, and is still available at well.com. We did an episode on Stewart Brand: Godfather of the Interwebs and he was a larger than life presence amongst many of the 1980s former hippies that were shaping our digital age. From his assistance producing The Mother Of All Demos to the Whole Earth Catalog inspiring Steve Jobs and many others to his work with Ted Nelson, there's probably only a few degrees separating him from anyone else in computing.  Larry Brilliant is another counter-culture hero. He did work as a medical professional for the World Health Organization to eradicate smallpox and came home to teach at the University of Michigan. The University of Michigan had been working on networked conferencing since the 70s when Bob Parnes wrote CONFER, which would be used at Wayne State where Brilliant got his MD. But CONFER was a bit of a resource hog. PicoSpan was written by Marcus Watts in 1983. Pico is a small text editor in many a UNIX variant and network is network. Why small, well, modems that dialed into bulletin boards were pretty slow back then.  Marcus worked at NETI, who then bought the rights for PicoSpan to take to market. So Brilliant was the chairman of NETI at the time and approached Brand about starting up a bulletin-board system (BBS). Brilliant proposed NETI would supply the gear and software and that Brand would use his, uh, brand - and Whole Earth following, to fill the ranks. Brand's non-profit The Point Foundation would own half and NETI would own the other half.  It became an early online community outside of academia, and an important part of the rise of the splinter-nets and a holdout to the Internet. For a time, at least.  PicoSpan gave users conferences. These were similar to PLATO Notes files, where a user could create a conversation thread and people could respond. These were (and still are) linear and threaded conversations. Rather than call them Notes like PLATO did, PicSpan referred to them as “conferences” as “online conferencing” was a common term used to describe meeting online for discussions at the time. EIES had been around going back to the 1970s, so Brand had some ideas abut what an online community could be - having used it. Given the sharp drop in the cost of storage there was something new PicoSpan could give people: the posts could last forever. Keep in mind, the Mac still didn't ship with a hard drive in 1984. But they were on the rise.  And those bits that were preserved were manifested in words. Brand brought a simple mantra: You Own Your Own Words. This kept the hands of the organization clean and devoid of liability for what was said on The WELL - but also harkened back to an almost libertarian bent that many in technology had at the time. Part of me feels like libertarianism meant something different in that era. But that's a digression. Whole Earth Review editor Art Kleiner flew up to Michigan to get the specifics drawn up. NETI's investment had about a quarter million dollar cash value. Brand stayed home and came up with a name. The Whole Earth ‘lectronic Link, or WELL.  The WELL was not the best technology, even at the time. The VAX was woefully underpowered for as many users as The WELL would grow to, and other services to dial into and have discussions were springing up. But it was one of the most influential of the time. And not because they recreated the extremely influential Whole Earth catalog in digital form like Brilliant wanted, which would have been similar to what Amazon reviews are like now probably. But instead, the draw was the people.  The community was fostered first by Matthew McClure, the initial director who was a former typesetter for the Whole Earth Catalog. He'd spent 12 years on a commune called The Farm and was just getting back to society. They worked out that they needed to charge $8 a month and another couple bucks an hour to make minimal a profit.  So McClure worked with NETI to get the Fax up and they created the first conference, General. Kevin Kelly from the Whole Earth Review and Brand would start discussions and Brand mentioned The WELL in some of his writings. A few people joined, and then a few more.  Others from The Farm would join him. Cliff Figallo, known as Cliff, was user 19 and John Coate, who went by Tex, came in to run marketing. In those first few years they started to build up a base of users. It started with hackers and journalists, who got free accounts. And from there great thinkers joined up. People like Tom Mandel from Stanford Research Institute, or SRI. He would go on to become the editor of Time Online. His partner Nana. Howard Rheingold, who would go on to write a book called The Virtual Community. And they attracted more. Especially Dead Heads, who helped spread the word across the country during the heyday of the Grateful Dead.  Plenty of UNIX hackers also joined. After all, the community was finding a nexus in the Bay Area at the time. They added email in 1987 and it was one of those places you could get on at least one part of this whole new internet thing. And need help with your modem? There's a conference for that. Need to talk about calling your birth mom who you've never met because you were adopted? There's a conference for that as well. Want to talk sexuality with a minister? Yup, there's a community for that. It was one of the first times that anyone could just reach out and talk to people. And the community that was forming also met in person from time to time at office parties, furthering the cohesion.  We take Facebook groups, Slack channels, and message boards for granted today. We can be us or make up a whole new version of us. We can be anonymous and just there to stir up conflict like on 4Chan or we can network with people in our industry like on LinkedIn. We can chat real time, which is similar to the Send option on The WELL. Or we can post threaded responses to other comments. But the social norms and trends were proving as true then as now. Communities grow, they fragment, people create problems, people come, people go. And sometimes, as we grow, we inspire.  Those early adopters of The WELL inspired Craig Newmark of Craigslist to the growing power of the Internet. And future developers of Apple. Hippies versus nerds but not really versus, but coming to terms with going from “computers are part of the military industrial complex keeping us down” philosophy to more of a free libertarian information superhighway that persisted for decades. The thought that the computer would set us free and connect the world into a new nation, as John Perry Barlow would sum up perfectly in “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”. By 1990 people like Barlow could make a post on The WELL from Wyoming and have Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus, makers of Lotus 1-2-3 show up at his house after reading the post - and they could join forces with the 5th employee of Sun Microsystems and GNU Debugging Cypherpunk John Gilmore to found the Electronic Foundation. And as a sign of the times that's the same year The WELL got fully connected to the Internet. By 1991 they had grown to 5,000 subscribers. That was the year Bruce Katz bought NETI's half of the well for $175,000. Katz had pioneered the casual shoe market, changing the name of his families shoe business to Rockport and selling it to Reebok for over $118 million.  The WELL had posted a profit a couple of times but by and large was growing slower than competitors. Although I'm not sure any o the members cared about that. It was a smaller community than many others but they could meet in person and they seemed to congeal in ways that other communities didn't. But they would keep increasing in size over the next few years. In that time Fig replaced himself with Maurice Weitman, or Mo - who had been the first person to sign up for the service. And Tex soon left as well.  Tex would go to become an early webmaster of The Gate, the community from the San Francisco Chronicle. Fig joined AOL's GNN and then became director of community at Salon. But AOL. You see, AOL was founded in the same year. And by 1994 AOL was up to 1.25 million subscribers with over a million logging in every day. CompuServe, Prodigy, Genie, Dephi were on the rise as well. And The WELL had thousands of posts a day by then but was losing money and not growing like the others. But I think the users of the service were just fine with that. The WELL was still growing slowly and yet for many, it was too big. Some of those left. Some stayed. Other communities, like The River, fragmented off. By then, The Point Foundation wanted out so sold their half of The WELL to Katz for $750,000 - leaving Katz as the first full owner of The WELL.  I mean, they were an influential community because of some of the members, sure, but more because the quality of the discussions. Academics, drugs, and deeply personal information. And they had always complained about figtex or whomever was in charge - you know, the counter-culture is always mad at “The Management.” But Katz was not one of them. He honestly seems to have tried to improve things - but it seems like everything he tried blew up in his face.  So Katz further alienated the members and fired Mo and brought on Maria Wilhelm, but they still weren't hitting that hyper-growth, with membership getting up to around 10,000 - but by then AOL was jumping from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000. But again, I've not found anyone who felt like The WELL should have been going down that same path. The subscribers at The WELL were looking for an experience of a completely different sort. By 1995 Gail Williams allowed users to create their own topics and the unruly bunch just kinda' ruled themselves in a way. There was staff and drama and emotions and hurt feelings and outrage and love and kindness and, well, community. By the late 90s, the buzz word at many a company were all about building communities, and there were indeed plenty of communities growing. But none like The WELL. And given that some of the founders of Salon had been users of The WELL, Salon bought The WELL in 1999 and just kinda' let it fly under the radar. The influence continued with various journalists as members.  The web came. And the members of The WELL continued their community. Award winning but a snapshot in time in a way. Living in an increasingly secluded corner of cyberspace, a term that first began life in a present tense on The WELL, if you got it, you got it. In 2012, after trying to sell The WELL to another company, Salon finally sold The WELL to a group of members who had put together enough money to buy it. And The WELL moved into the current, more modern form of existence. To quote the site: Welcome to a gathering that's like no other. The WELL, launched back in 1985 as the Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link, continues to provide a cherished watering hole for articulate and playful thinkers from all walks of life. For more about why conversation is so treasured on The WELL, and why members of the community banded together to buy the site in 2012, check out the story of The WELL. If you like what you see, join us! It sounds pretty inviting. And it's member supported. Like National Public Radio kinda'. In what seems like an antiquated business model, it's $15 per month to access the community. And make no mistake, it's a community.  You Own Your Own Words. If you pay to access a community, you don't sign the ownership of your words away in a EULA. You don't sign away rights to sell your data to advertisers along with having ads shown to you in increasing numbers in a hunt for ever more revenue. You own more than your words, you own your experience. You are sovereign.  This episode doesn't really have a lot of depth to it. Just as most online forums lack the kind of depth that could be found on the WELL. I am a child of a different generation, I suppose. Through researching each episode of the podcast, I often read books, conduct interviews (a special thanks to Help A Reporter Out), lurk in conferences, and try to think about the connections, the evolution, and what the most important aspects of each are. There is a great little book from Katie Hafner called The Well: A Story Of Love, Death, & Real Life. I recommend it. There's also Howard Rheingold's The Virtual Community and John Seabrook's Deeper: Adventures on the Net. Oh, and From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, And the Rise of Digital Utopianism from Fred Turner and Siberia by Douglas Rushkoff. At a minimum, I recommend reading Katie Hafner's wired article and then her most excellent book! Oh, and to hear about other ways the 60s Counterculture helped to shape the burgeoning technology industry, check out What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff.  And The WELL comes up in nearly every book as one of the early commercial digital communities. It's been written about in Wired, in The Atlantic, makes appearances in books like Broad Band by Claire Evans, and The Internet A Historical Encyclopedia.  The business models out there to build and run  and grow a company have seemingly been reduced to a select few. Practically every online community has become free with advertising and data being the currency we parlay in exchange for a sense of engagement with others.  As network effects set in and billionaires are created, others own our words. They think the lifestyle business is quaint - that if you aren't outgrowing a market segment that you are shrinking. And a subscription site that charges a monthly access fee to cgi code with a user experience that predates the UX field on the outside might affirm that philosophy -especially since anyone can see your real name. But if we look deeper we see a far greater truth: that these barriers keep a small corner of cyberspace special - free from Russian troll farms and election stealing and spam bots. And without those distractions we find true engagement. We find real connections that go past the surface. We find depth. It's not lost after all.  Thank you for being part of this little community. We are so lucky to have you. Have a great day.

This week we’re joined by Talia Stroud, Director of the Center for Media Engagement at The University of Texas at Austin, and Eli Pariser, formerly of Upworthy and MoveOn and author of The Filter Bubble, to talk about their latest project, Civic Signals/New Public. After several rounds of conversation on “what’s wrong with social media and how can we fix it?” Talia and Eli started Civic Signals to try to fill the gap between necessary critiques of our current online spaces and creating digital environments that we want to inhabit. By looking across disciplines and off-line equivalents to our online spaces, they are working to create a community to collectively build an evolving design framework for online public spaces. Eli and Talia take us through their approach, methods, and findings so far – and how they’ve doubled down on this work in the pandemic. Finally, we go on a deep dive of the first of the four essential “building blocks” they’ve found that make digital spaces work for people across multiple lived experiences: Welcome.A full transcript of this episode will be available on the episode page soon.Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:Wile. E. Coyote (Looney Tunes)Contrasting figures in Urban Planning:Robert MosesJane JacobsCivic Signals’ evolving New Public FrameworkSome examples of clearly-articulated online community norms/terms of service:WikipediaArchive of Our OwnEarly thinking on establishing norms in online spaces: Julian Dibbell - A Rape in CyberspaceA Pattern Language (1977 - “the intimacy gradient”)A hyper-local online community: Front Porch Forum (Vermont)Habermas – The Structural Transformation of the Public SphereMore on Civic Signals:New Public Festival, Jan 12-14, 2021Learn more about the New Public community, subscribe to newsletterMaslow’s hierarchy of needsThe Social Dilemma (documentary)Antitrust law and the “Ma Bell” breakupRe-imagining Public Broadcasting - Newton MinowBoy Scouts Radio communityEarlier online community - The WellCheck out these previous episodes we mentioned:Episode 75: Play as a Precursor to Participation, with Reanne Estrada and Benjamin StokesEpisode 45: “Radicalized” with Cory DoctorowEpisode 56: Exploring Virtual Communities with Howard Rheingold and Patricia G. LangeShare your thoughts via Twitter with Henry, Colin and the How Do You Like It So Far? account! You can also email us at howdoyoulikeitsofarpodcast@gmail.com.Music:“In Time” by Dylan Emmett and “Spaceship” by Lesion X.––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––In Time (Instrumental) by Dylan Emmet  https://soundcloud.com/dylanemmetSpaceship by Lesion X https://soundcloud.com/lesionxbeatsCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/in-time-instrumentalFree Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/lesion-x-spaceshipMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/AzYoVrMLa1Q––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Howard Rheingold is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the social implications of technology. He is a futurist and a prescient writer who has written dozens of books on technology, internet and social media. He is a visiting lecturer at Stanford University and a former lecturer at UC Berkeley. We talked about the history of the development of personal computers. We also discussed in-depth on how the internet and social media have evolved to create "virtual communities" and "Smart Mobs"; and finally, on how to thrive online and be Net Smart. Hope you enjoy the episode. You can find more about the guest, Howard Rheingold at rheingold.com You can also follow or support him on Patreon. For any feedback or queries, please feel free to drop a note at mayanksancheti09@gmail.com or reach out to the host on LinkedIn or Twitter.

Peeragogy is all about learning how to do something by finding some like minds with diverse skills, and doing it! In this episode, we explore the collaborative publishing process. We will learn from two Peeragogy Handbook contributors who have written and published books: Howard Rheingold and Bryan Alexander. Peeragogy Handbook editorial director Joe Corneli hosts.The conversation will cover how we can incorporate the experience of our panelists into the next version and continue to the journey that when we published the Peeragogy Handbook v1 in 2012! We'll talk about work in progress on the new fourth edition of the public-domain Peeragogy Handbook. Our 3 main topics for this episode: 1. How did collaboration factor in writing your books?2. Who were the people you worked with to actually bring the book to life?3. How can your create the Peeragogy Handbook?EPISODE LINKS: https://rheingold.comhttps://bryanalexander.orghttps://piercepress.com/peeragogy-in-action

Imagine the Possible is a podcast about the role of design in advanced technology. This is the very first episode; an interview with Howard Rheingold. Howard is a good friend and he’s one of the clearest thinkers in tech. Howard talks about the early pioneers in Silicon Valley, the current state of social media, online learning, and the future of technology. Find show notes at johanjessen.com/rheingold

Peeragogy In Action #3Join CICOLAB (Collective Intelligence Collaboratory) co-founders Lauren Nignon and Charles Blass as they report initial findings on what makes “Peeragogy for Kids”, with inputs from Howard Rheingold, Jerry Michalski, Open Global Mind and CICOLAB crew members at the Flow Show. Weaving the story beyond “learning pods”, sprouting the LearninGarden in the Kids Koolaboratory, aka KooLab. Host: Charles Danoff, Mr. Danoff's Teaching LaboratoryEpisode Producer: Joseph Corneli, PhDPodcast Producer: Charlotte Pierce/Pierce PressEPISODE CREDITS:https://piercepress.com/podcastshttps://peeragogy.orghttps://collectiveintelligencecollaboratory.com

A practical guide to dreaming consciously. The way we perceive reality is governed by the input and interpretation of our senses; what we see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. But while dreaming the only inputs come from our own brains. Which is to say that when we dream, we create our reality. But can we control it? This is what Exploring The World of Lucid Dreaming aims to demonstrate. With practical explanations of techniques to induce lucid dreaming authors Stephen LaBerge and Howard Rheingold offer a guide map to building your own dream world. *** Do you want more free audiobook summaries like this? Download our app for free at QuickRead.com/App and get access to hundreds of free book and audiobook summaries.

Howard Rheingold talks with Jim about his involvement in early computing & the internet, collaboration, internet risks, privacy, COVID-19, attention, and much more… Howard Rheingold talks with Jim about his interest & experiences with early computers & the internet, online collaboration & sharing, The Source & Well.com, ‘realtime’ online tribes, 3 risks to the future of the … Continue reading EP61 Howard Rheingold on Our Digital Past & Future → The post EP61 Howard Rheingold on Our Digital Past & Future appeared first on The Jim Rutt Show.

For years, Facebook executives have persistently shut down efforts to make the site less divisive, according to reporting from Deepa Seetharaman and Jeff Horwitz of The Wall Street Journal. As community professionals, we’re tasked with helping people start and participate in conversations that matter to them. We’re often held accountable by “engagement” metrics –– such as the number of people participating in conversations and the sentiment surrounding those conversations. But in this conversation with reporter Jeff Horwitz, you’ll learn that while Facebook obviously wants to gain more attention from users and increase time spent on the platform, there’s less internal consensus around the ethical dilemma of reaching these engagement goals by amplifying divisive groups and content. Alternatively, a lack of concrete metrics to measure impact is perhaps one of the things stopping Facebook from taking a step back and thinking about how their platform is impacting the world. Is Facebook already too much of a monolith to change its path? Or is Mark Zuckerberg still not convinced that the company is at the center of a moral dilemma when it comes to polarizing its members and advancing the spread of misinformation? In this episode of Community Signal, Patrick talks to Jeff about the article and dives into the context surrounding the story learned while talking to Facebook employees. They discuss: The engineers that are continuously pushing to build a more fair and just Facebook How decision-making works at Facebook Why “social good” has fallen out of favor Our Podcast is Made Possible By… If you enjoy our show, please know that it’s only possible with the generous support of our sponsor: Vanilla, a one-stop shop for online community. Big Quotes Polarization is being encouraged by Facebook’s algorithms (3:15): “[Facebook] found that in some instances, its platform was increasing polarization. … Facebook’s algorithms would spit out increasingly divisive content in an effort to boost engagement unless interrupted.” –@JeffHorwitz The impact of delaying tough platform decisions (7:00): “Some of the engineers really regretted that they hadn’t been able to take action [against polarization] earlier because if they had, potentially, [Facebook] wouldn’t have had this large ecosystem of misinformation and misinformation publishers that actually started defending its own interest. Making those changes once you’ve already got an established platform and communities on this platform is a lot harder.” –@JeffHorwitz Founders and the C-suite can hold back community initiatives (10:26): “You can’t outrun the founders. I’ve found myself reporting up the chain before to CEOs, COOs, and founders who would continually weaken my initiatives.” –@patrickokeefe Allowing metrics to get in the way of progress (20:11): “If Facebook was asking the question, ‘Are we making the world worse?,’ how do you even answer that question? Facebook is a very metrics-driven organization, and that was a pretty hard thing to quantify. It was like, if you can’t quantify it, then how do you know you’ve solved it? Thus, if you can’t quantify it, maybe we should just move on.” –@JeffHorwitz So, why hasn’t Facebook made more substantial changes? (25:26): “It’s a product that really does work and it really is successful in just a truly profound way. Making changes to it, I think, is pretty hard. Even if there are so many other ways for Groups to be or for News Feed to be, this is the way that has built Facebook into a wild, almost unparalleled success. Why would you give that up?” –@JeffHorwitz About Jeff Horwitz Jeff Horwitz is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal focusing on Facebook. Before joining The Wall Street Journal, he was an investigative reporter for the Associated Press. Related Links Sponsor: Vanilla, a one-stop shop for online community Jeff Horwitz on Twitter Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive by Jeff Horwitz and Deepa Seetharaman for The Wall Street Journal Investments to Fight Polarization by Guy Rosen, VP of Integrity at Faceboook Community builder Derek Powazek’s take on why Facebook hasn’t implemented substantial changes Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act Away’s founders sold a vision of travel and inclusion, but former employees say it masked a toxic work environment by Zoe Schiffer for The Verge Facebook will pay $52 million in settlement with moderators who developed PTSD on the job by Casey Newton for The Verge Patrick’s Twitter thread about this story Howard Rheingold on Community Signal Support peace and healing for Darnella Frazier Chris Cox, chief product officer at Facebook Zuckerberg Lieutenant Returns to Facebook, a Year After Departure by Jeff Horwitz for The Wall Street Journal Twitter Refutes Inaccuracies in Trump’s Tweets About Mail-In Voting by Davey Alba and Kate Conger for The New York Times Many Facebook employees think the company needs to stand up to Trump now more than ever by Shirin Ghaffary for Recode Reporting by Jeff Horwitz for The Wall Street Journal Transcript View transcript on our website Your Thoughts If you have any thoughts on this episode that you’d like to share, please leave me a comment, send me an email or a tweet. If you enjoy the show, we would be so grateful if you spread the word and supported Community Signal on Patreon.

The way we perceive reality is governed by the input and interpretation of our senses; what we see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. But while dreaming the only inputs come from our own brains. Which is to say that when we dream, we create our reality. But can we control it? This is what Exploring The World of Lucid Dreaming aims to demonstrate. With practical explanations of techniques to induce lucid dreaming authors Stephen LaBerge and Howard Rheingold offer a guide map to building your own dream world. *** Do you want more free audiobook summaries like this? Download our app for free at QuickRead.com/App and get access to hundreds of free book and audiobook summaries.

Learn more about Howard on his website at: http://rheingold.com/learning You can support Howard's work on Patreon: http://patreon.com/howardrheingold

Howard wrote his first article studying virtual communities 1987. Yes, 1987. That's before the official internet and long before anything that resembled what we know of today as social media. In 2012 he authored the book, Net Smart; How to Thrive Online, which laid out 5 essential literacies for users of digital communication and networks. He’s got a ton of great insights and perspectives on our current situation with Facebook and Google and Youtube. He’s hopeful it seems, and he doesn’t bash the tech itself. Rather, he tries to empower its users to see it for what it is, and to make the most of it. Find Howard’s work online at www.rheingold.com and on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/howardrheingold Please support this show by sharing, subscribing and by leaving a review! It helps! Support by donating! 100% listener supported show. www.paypal.me/ariintheair Thanks to everyone who has listened, shared, donated and encouraged me on this podcast. It means a lot to me, I’m so grateful. So much good stuff coming up. Stay tuned! The About Section from Howard’s Website reads as follows “I fell into the computer realm from the typewriter dimension in 1981, then plugged my computer into my telephone in 1983 and got sucked into the net. In earlier years, my interest in the powers of the human mind led to Higher Creativity (1984), written with Willis Harman, Talking Tech(1982) and The Cognitive Connection (1986) with Howard Levine, Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind: A Book of Memes (1988),Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming (1990), with Stephen LaBerge, and They Have A Word For It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases.(1988). I ventured further into the territory where minds meet technology through the subject of computers as mind-amplifiers and wrote Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Amplifiers (1984). Next, Virtual Reality (1991)chronicled my odyssey in the world of artificial experience, from simulated battlefields in Hawaii to robotics laboratories in Tokyo, garage inventors in Great Britain, and simulation engineers in the south of France. In 1994, I was one of the principal architects and the first Executive Editor of HotWired. I quit after launch, because I wanted something more like a jam session than a magazine. In 1996, I founded and, with the help of a crew of 15, launched Electric Minds. Electric Minds was named one of the ten best web sites of 1996 by Time magazine and was acquired by Durand Communications in 1997. My 2002 book, Smart Mobs, was acclaimed as a prescient forecast of the always-on era. In 2005, I taught a course at Stanford University on A Literacy of Cooperation, part of a long-term investigation of cooperation and collective action that I have undertaken in partnership with the Institute for the Future. The Cooperation Commons is the site of our ongoing investigation of cooperation and collective action.The TED talk I delivered about “Way New Collaboration” has been viewed more than 265,000 times. In 2008, I was a winner in MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning competition and used my award to work with a developer to create a free and open source social media classroom. I have a YouTube channel that covers a range of subjects. Most recently, I’ve been concentrating on learning and teaching 21st Century literacies. I’ve blogged about this subject for SFGate, have been interviewed, and have presented talks on the subject. I was invited to deliver the 2012 Regents’ Lecture at University of California, Berkeley. I also teach online courses through Rheingold U. My latest book, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online, published in 2012, was reviewed in Science.”

We’re normally all about the history of tech. But today we invited our friend Howard Rheingold back onto the podcast to get his unique perspective on the coronavirus pandemic—an historical moment in itself. As the man who coined the term “virtual community” long ago, he shares his thoughts on online socializing and learning, and predicts how this virus might change the future of work and learning for good. LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE (FOR FULL LIST OF LINKS, SEE OUR FULL WEBPAGE): Howard’s first appearance on Stayin’ Alive in Tech, named “People Got To Be Free” Petr Kropotkin’s work Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution Howard’s article Mutual Aid & Social Capital: The Power of Communities, Networks Wikipedia article for the organization theory Mutual Aid Peeragogy Handbook Howard’s Patreon profile Connected Learning Alliance Howard’s book The Virtual Community (1993) MUSICAL INSPIRATION FOR THIS EPISODE ON SPOTIFY: "Changes” by David Bowie  ABOUT THIS PODCAST Stayin' Alive in Tech is an oral history of Silicon Valley and technology. Melinda Byerley, the host, is a 20-year veteran of Silicon Valley and the founder of Timeshare CMO, a digital marketing intelligence firm, based in San Francisco. We really appreciate your reviews, shares on social media, and your recommendations for future guests. And check out our Spotify playlist for all the songs we refer to on our show. 

Show Notes This week Howard Rheingold joins Ken. Howard is an internet pioneer going back to the early 1980s and has written many books about his experiences and research. Last summer I had the privilege to participate in a online course with Howard and a wonderful group of co-learners. That course was titled “Augmented Collective […]

Oh, do we have a special episode for you How Do You Like it So Far? fans! This week, Colin and Henry discuss communities and their presence in digital and physical spaces and use old How Do You Like it So Far? episodes as talking points! We’ve made our very own podcast clip show! Henry and Colin were intrigued about the conversation opened up by Howard Rheingold an Patricia G. Lange on virtual communities. Through this springboard, they relate their own personal accounts of fandom and digital spaces that translate to physical spaces. Listen in as Colin and Henry discuss online and offline communities through the vast collection of How Do You Like it So Far? episodes and the need to keep exploring these areas of gathering in the future. Check out our notes section for links to the episodes mentioned in this podcast!

A conversation with Independent thinker, online instigator, novice educator, expert learner, offline gardener and author of Net Smart, Howard Rheingold (you can check out more about Howard and access more of his thoughts and art at https://www.patreon.com/howardrheingold). In this episode, we discuss triangulation, fact checking tools/strategies, the importance of teaching students to become CRAP detectors, and more. This is part of my 'That's Crap Detection' major project for ECI832.

Contenuti che Spaccano: Toolkit◾Definizione: Una selezione di tool / strumenti utili *e complementari fra di loro* per svolgere un certo compito. ◾Utilità / Valore: Facilita la realizzazione di un certo compito o task fornendomi più tool che semplificano, accelerano, e/o migliorano la qualità o altre caratteristiche del lavoro da svolgere. ◾Esempi: Video Toolkit 2018 - mini-tour "da Brand a Friend"Decine di toolkit raccolte insieme per vari task specifici per chi fa o produce videohttps://www.dropbox.com/s/fk34gag9n90l7w6/DBAF-Video-Communication-Toolkit-RobinGood-2018.pdf?dl=0Guide to Crap Detection Resources (realizzato in collaborazione con Howard Rheingold)https://docs.google.com/document/d/163G79vq-mFWjIqMb9AzYGbr5Y8YMGcpbSzJRutO8tpw/edit?usp=sharingTeacher ToolkitSet di tool e pratiche utili per insegnare e coinvolgere gli studentihttp://www.theteachertoolkit.com/index.php/tool/all-toolsToolkit of Methods for Human Centered Design - IDEOhttps://www.designkit.org/methodsAthlete Personal Brand ToolkitSet di tool, risorse e letture consigliate per gli atleti delle Olimpiadi 2020 per curare il loro personal brandhttps://www.olympic.org/athlete365/personalbrand/Designer ToolkitUna libreria di caratteri, colori e risorse utili per web designer e sviluppatorihttps://www.colorsandfonts.com/-------------Info Utili• Musica di questa puntata: "Soft Focus" by Birocratic - disponibile su Bandcamp:https://birocratic.bandcamp.com/track/soft-focus• Dammi feedback:critiche, commenti, suggerimenti, idee e domande unendoti al gruppo Telegram https://t.me/@RobinGoodPodcastFeedback• Ascolta e condividi questo podcast:https://gopod.me/RobinGood• Diventa sostenitore:esprimi la tua soddisfazione e incoraggiamento diventando anche tu un sostenitore attivo di questo podcast qui: https://Patreon.com/Robin_Good • Seguimi su Telegram:https://t.me/RobinGoodItalia (tutti i miei contenuti, immagini, audio e video in un solo canale)oppurehttps://facebook.com/RobinGoodItalia/ (Pagina Facebook ufficiale)• Newsletter:http://robingood.it/toptools-newsletter • Per info e richieste:mailto: Ludovica.Scarfiotti@robingood.it

And we have a new one for you How Do You Like it So Far? crew! This week Henry and Colin are joined by Howard Rheingold, author of Tools for Thought, Smart Mobs, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online, and who is credited with creating the term the “virtual community” in his 1993 book, and Patricia Lange, an author of Thanks for Watching: An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube and Kids on YouTube: Technical Identities and Digital Literacies and an anthropologist and associate professor of critical studies and visual and critical studies at California College of the Arts. They discuss their experiences in the online world from the 1980s to today. Through their research, they dive deep into the early world of the Internet and how the idea of community was forged through bulletin board systems from the dial-up era. They also discuss how early YouTubers were marginalized for their work which spurred their involvement in community-creation on the Web. Listen in as Rheingold and Lange discuss their hopes for the future of Internet public spaces.

2002-11-20 - Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - Howard Rheingold - The Internet

Howard Rheingold calls himself an Independent Instigator & Observer, and we are so glad he is. Since the 60s, when the first concepts of personal computing and connecting humankind through networks were merely ideas on an LSD trip, he’s been watching how technology and human minds interrelate. Howard brings us up to the macro level, discussing how modes of communication shape the way societies behave, or how expressing hope can save an entire generation. Then he takes us to the micro level, comparing Facebook to other platforms that better encourage self-expression, telling us about the ‘five essential literacies’ for surviving in the modern world, and giving a huge list of recommended reading—like any good professor would. LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE (FOR FULL LIST OF LINKS, SEE OUR FULL WEBPAGE): Michael Pollan’s book: How to Change Your Mind Higher Creativity: Liberating the Unconscious for Breakthrough Insights by Howard Rheingold and Willis Harman The WELL Howard’s TED Talk: “The New Power of Collaboration” Alan Kay’s article in Scientific American “Microelectronics in the Personal Computer" Future Shock by Alvin Toffler Whole Earth Catalog (on Amazon and Wikipedia) and the Millennium Whole Earth Catalog Our Minds Have Been Hijacked by Our Phones. Tristan Harris Wants to Rescue Them from Wired.com Connected Learning Alliance What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff Doug Engelbart’s “Mother of All Demos” video— the world debut of personal and interactive computing in 1968! Howard’s Patreon profile   MUSICAL INSPIRATION FOR THIS EPISODE ON SPOTIFY: "People Got to Be Free" by The Rascals    ABOUT THIS PODCAST Stayin' Alive in Tech is an oral history of Silicon Valley and technology. Melinda Byerley, the host, is a 20-year veteran of Silicon Valley and the founder of Timeshare CMO, a digital marketing intelligence firm, based in San Francisco. We really appreciate your reviews, shares on social media, and your recommendations for future guests. And check out our Spotify playlist for all the songs we refer to on our show. 

Beneath the well-popularized myths of giants like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, computing has fast-moving, highly-technical story involving very many people and places. And in 1984, Howard Rheingold—who had been the embedded writer documenting and communicating the work of the Xerox PARC team as they developed the GUI, Ethernet, and Object Oriented Programming paradigms—saw the […]

Welcome to our second podcast on the theme of "community." While the web has been around for about 25 years now, learning on the Internet really started way before the web was even in development. For those of us old enough to remember the days of computer modems and online bulletin boards, if you had the time and the money, you could connect to people around the world and learn all sorts of things through online communities that relied solely on text...as in no audio, video...not even any pictures unless you were able to draw them with the keys on you keyboard. Back in those days, the Internet was a new frontier for connecting and learning, and there from almost the beginning was Howard Rhiengold, who I'm happy to say is my guest in this week's podcast, our second around the theme of community. Howard was one of the very early users on The Well, what many regard as the first real virtual community on the Internet. As you'll hear in this conversation, even on slow modems and expensive connections, many of the qualities and experiences that define community in our lives were present in those spaces. And what makes Howard's perspective so important is that he was the first to think deeply about the potentials and downsides of these connections. His first book titled "The Virtual Community," is a chronicle of those first interactions and questions for groups online. And I so appreciate the sense of perspective and history that this conversation brings to our current understanding of community. For more links and resources associated with this podcast, check out the podcast topic in our Modern Learners Community. And don't forget to check out our previous podcast on the theme of community with Peter Block. Next week, I'll be interviewing educator Dave Cormier on his suggestion that the community become the curriculum. See you then!

Howard Rheingold | Steve Hargadon | Aug 18 2009 by Steve Hargadon

Howard Rheingold: "Thinking Tools" on Howard's Brainstorms! | Steve Hargadon | Oct 15 2009 by Steve Hargadon

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Los sueños provienen del contenido de nuestra psique y siempre han fascinado a la humanidad. En este episodio revisamos algunas ideas: Los 5 estados de conciencia y los 4 estados del sueño. Los sueños lúcidos y algunos apuntes sobre sus beneficios. Prácticas para recordar y entender mejor nuestros sueños (y sus limitaciones). El valor de las pesadillas. Los libros mencionados en el episodio son “La interpretación de los sueños” de S. Freud, “La vida es sueño” de Calderón de la Barca y “Exploración De Los Sueños Lúcidos” de Stephen LaBerge y Howard Rheingold.

50 years ago, Stewart Brand launched the Whole Earth Catalog — one of the cornerstones of the American counterculture. The evening program of The Whole Earth Catalog 50th Anniversary Celebration was held on October 13, 02018, and featured conversations between Whole Earth Catalog contributors and contemporary wave-makers as they discussed the legacy of the Catalog and what the next 50 years might hold. Speakers included Ryan Phelan, Danica Remy, Rusty Schweickart, Kevin Kelly, Simone Giertz, Howard Rheingold, Chip Conley, Stephanie Mills, Stephanie Feldstein, Stewart Brand and Sal Khan. The event was sponsored by the San Francisco Art Institute, WIRED, The Long Now Foundation, Ken and Maddy Dychtwald, Peter and Cathleen Schwartz, Stewart Brand and Ryan Phelan, Juan and Mary Enriquez, and Gerry Ohrstrom. Learn more about the Whole Earth Catalog 50th Anniversary Celebration. Watch Whole Earth Flashbacks, a documentary that profiles the creators of the Whole Earth Catalog and the community they inspired. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Howard Rheingold is a colorful character in every sense of the word. From his psychedelic painted shoes to his extraordinary legacy of ground-breaking visionary books, Howard offers a unique and incisive approach to creativity, learning and community-building. Most people know Howard from his writing about Virtual Communities and mind amplification - but he’s also a gifted & innovative educator. In his role as a visiting professor at Stanford & UC Berkeley, Howard re-imagined the relationship between students and teachers as “co-learners” - in keeping with his deep, long-term interest in collaboration. Listen in and find out how a true Web pioneer thinks about “bullshit-detection” and the future of collaborative learning.

The Valley comes of age as the center of innovation and personal computing. Doug Englebart delivers the Mother of All Demos. Steve Jobs makes a fateful visit to Xerox PARC. On The WELL, people learn what it means to socialize online. Guests: Leslie Berlin, John Markoff, and Howard Rheingold.

Today on Team Human we conclude our series of live shows recorded at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts in the historic Mission district of San Francisco. Picking up where we left off last week and joining Douglas on stage are teammates Erik Davis and Josette Melchor. Erik Davis is the author of Techgnosis, Nomad Codes and host of The Expanding Mind podcast. Erik and Douglas start with the big question, “What the fuck is going on here?” What begins with a few laughs quickly digs into a mind-expanding conversation about those gray areas between religion, technology, and psychedelics. Erik and Douglas look for coherence and connection in these fractious times. Making this message concrete is Gray Area’s founder Josette Melchor. Josette resurrects our show segment “Real People Doing Real Things.” She offers both practical and profound lessons on building a safe space for community, creativity, and artistic exploration.As we conclude this series, we’d like to thank our teammates at Gray Area; Josette Melchor, Seabrook Gubbins, Alric Burns, our guests for both nights Annalee Newitz, Howard Rheingold, Lauren McCarthy, Erik Davis, and (again!) Josette Melchor. Thank you to the San Francisco community who came out to support and participate in the show. And sincere gratitude to our Patreon members who’s sustaining subscriptions made travel and recording possible.Sign up at Patreon. There you’ll find the complete, uncut San Francisco Live shows, plus other rewards and ways to Find the Others.During this live performance we featured Intro music from Fugazi, plus excerpts from Throbbing Gristle (Listen to Genesis Breyer P-Orridge with Douglas on Episode 67). Mid-show you heard music by Mike Watt.This week's playing cards (thanks to Bobby Campell) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we continue with part two of our special live recording of Team Human at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts in San Fransisco. Joining Douglas on stage is cyberculture pioneer, educator, artist, author, visionary, and shoe painter, Howard Rheingold. “Mind amplifiers,” “psychedelic signifiers,” and “the instrumental vs. the sacred” are just the tip of the iceberg in a conversation that explores how we got to this moment in technology and society... and ultimately where we hope to go. Following Rushkoff and Rheingold’s conversation, Sci-Fi author and technology journalist Annalee Newitz (hear Newitz's conversation in part 1) rejoins the team for a roundtable discussion and audience Q & A. If you are just discovering Team Human, check out last week’s Episode 75, featuring the first hour of this of this live show with guest Annalee Newitz. Patreon supporters have access to the complete uncut interview at patreon.com/teamhuman. Music heard on today’s show; “Walkabout” by Throbbing Gristle (hear Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on Episode 67) Also heard on the show, music by Team Human Ep. 68 guest Stacco Troncoso plus intro and outro music from Fugazi.If you enjoyed these live shows, Please share a review of Team Human on iTunes. Your recommendation helps Team Human to “find the others.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's Team Human comes to you recorded live at the historic Grand Theater in San Francisco's Mission District, home to Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. We'll be sharing four installments of this live event, kicking it off with a conversation with Annalee Newitz, author of the mind blowing sci-fi novel Autonomous, as well as prior work Scatter Adapt and Remember: How Humans will Survive a Mass Extinction, founder of I09, and journalist for outlets such as Ars Technica among many others.Annalee joins Douglas on stage to talk about artificial intelligence, autonomy, tech ethics, robot sex, saving the planet and more. It's a lively discussion, energized by the presence of a wonderful and welcoming audience.Rushkoff kicks off this live series with an excerpt from his Team Human Manifesto, an excellent primer on the motivation driving this podcast and the connections being forged through its members.Next week we'll pick up with part two of this live show, featuring cyberculture pioneer, educator, and artist Howard Rheingold.During this live performance we featured Intro music from Fugazi, plus excerpts from Throbbing Gristle (Listen to Genesis Breyer P-Orridge with Douglas on Episode 67)You can sustain Team Human by subscribing via Patreon. Patreon members received free access to these San Francisco Events. Visit patreon.com/teamhuman to join. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Playing for Team Human today is world renowned social scientist and systems thinker, Merrelyn Emery. Emery, with her partner the late Fred Emery, advanced Open Systems Theory and applied it to management of organizations and government. Open Systems Theory, or OST is the idea that autocracies make for bad governments, companies, and organizations. In this conversation, Merrelyn and Douglas discuss the power of community and collective organizing. They also discuss the social environments conducive to true grassroots, systemic change. As Merrelyn explains it, “By working together with collective responsibility, people can regain control over their own affairs, in their own communities and organizations, by cooperating to meet shared goals rather than competing or peeling off as individuals to do ‘their own thing’.”Douglas begins todays show announcing the first of exciting new Team Human live events in 2018. Rushkoff will be hosting two evenings of no-holds-barred Team Human discussions in San Francisco at GrayArea.org. On Friday, February 16, Douglas will host a conversation with guests Howard Rheingold and Annalee Newitz. On Saturday the 17th, Douglas will be joined by Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis, artist Lauren McCarthy, and Gray Area founder Josette Melchor. Get your tickets here.Team Human Patreon supporters have special access to guest passes for both nights, so if you’re in the San Francisco area and considering supporting the show via Patreon, now is the time to sign up! You can also help by sharing a review on iTunes. Today’s music is thanks to Fugazi and Dischord Records and Stacco Troncoso of the P2P foundation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

    Our guest Howard Rheingold and host Dr. Heidi Forbes Öste talk the journey through the future, evolving tech, keeping our humanity and the required literacies: attention, crap detection, participation, collaboration and network awareness Howard's most recent books are Net Smart: How to Thrive on Line(MIT) and Mind Amplifier (TED), and a dozen other books. He popularized the term virtual community, taught at Stanford for ten years and Cal Berkeley for four years. He's a Distinguished Fellow at Institute for the Future. His 2005 TED talk on Way New Collaboration has had nearly one million views. He is now a full-time artist. Website: http://patreon.com/howardrheingold Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/howard.rheingold  Sponsored by Zero to Launch in 14 Days. Get your FREE report, The Simple 5-Step Process to Launch a Rockin' Podcast in Just 14 Days and sign up for a free launch discovery session HERE!

Howard Rheingold, an influential writer and thinker on social media, is the author ofTools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (both published by the MIT Press), and Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution.

It feels like the quality of discourse in the United States, and many other countries, gets worse every single day. Especially political discourse. But in online community settings, it is possible to identify the the threads to civil discourse and neutralize them. The National Institute for Civil Discourse (NICD) gives tools and tactics to elected officials, the media and the public, in an effort to help everyone engage in a more civil way. NICD director of social media Tracey Todd joins the show to discuss a series of common threats to civil discourse, and how we might approach them. Plus: The impact of Donald Trump on discourse Has civility become a buzzword used by those who aren’t actually civil? Where Tracey finds optimism in discourse right now Big Quotes “What we saw, with the implementation of the 24 hour news cycle, was this ravenous need for information at all periods. Which then, in turn, makes certain items pressing news that ordinarily wouldn’t have become top news in previous years. … I think that has added to the vitriol because there’s so much information. There are so many voices, and we have a number of people who are appealing to their baser instincts to really cut through the traffic.” -@TraceyTodd “We’re seeing hate actually be validated from the highest office in the country, so I think we sit at a very dangerous juncture in our country and in our dialogue.” -@TraceyTodd “Facebook is a news provider. Twitter is a news provider. Snapchat is a news provider. There’s a responsibility there in the messages that are spread using those platforms.” -@TraceyTodd “I think we’ve seen civility utilized in ways where, whenever it’s convenient for a political side, that’s who will be the champion of civility. Which I think is really dangerous, because that’s a hollow civility. That’s not really civility. It’s really that you want to quiet the other side.” -@TraceyTodd “I think there has to be a re-acknowledgement of the fact that a fact is a fact. Two plus two always equals four. There’s not a contention as to what that is. But I think now everything has become so malleable to where we think anything is subjective, and it’s open to interpretation, when it just isn’t the case. We also have to look at these groups that are utilizing [the perceived] amorphousness of information to spread their agenda. What is the ultimate goal of misinformation and disseminating information that will be less than true? There has to be some ambition behind that.” -TraceyTodd “Likes and those sort of approval markers have become the currency for everything from advertisers to your self-esteem for today, so you’re having people doing whatever it takes to receive those individual approval markers and whatever it takes to stand out is often appealing to more base instincts or unsavory things because it goes back to ‘If it bleeds, it leads,’ which is essentially saying sensationalism wins out every time.” -@TraceyTodd “When you value something, you’re less likely to try to ruin it.” -@patrickokeefe “I think the incivility is the symptom of the larger sickness, which is economic uncertainty and political anonymity, where people feel anonymous to these politicians that they’ve voted in to represent them. I think those are the core issues that fuel the incivility, the vitriol, the hate, the harassment.” -@TraceyTodd “It’s always a mistake when companies that deal with user generated content of any kind don’t prioritize policies and enforcement of those policies early on. When they try to do it later, it is so much more difficult because the culture and the expectations have already been set. Frankly, some platforms have only themselves to blame and perhaps even selfishly so. Like the reason some of them don’t prioritize these issues is because they want to get as much traffic as quickly as they can, and they see community standards as a hindrance to that because it leads to them turning some people away. And then when they make their money and they want to be respectable, they try to change and it’s a nightmare.” -@patrickokeefe About Tracey Todd Tracey Todd plays a leading role at the National Institute for Civil Discourse to encourage a social media environment where Americans can not only connect and have civil dialogues about the issues facing the nation but also feel connected to creating outcomes from those discussions. Related Links Sponsor: Higher Logic, the community platform for community managers Tracey’s website National Institute for Civil Discourse, a nonpartisan center for advocacy, research and policy, where Tracey is director of social media “Danger of ‘Civility’ Being Used as Pretext to Shut Down Debate” by Tim Steller for the Arizona Daily Star, where NICD executive director Carolyn Lukensmeyer commented that we haven’t seen this level of political division since Reconstruction Rebecca Newton, Jonathan Bailey, Lara Harmon, Elizabeth Koenig, Rachel Medanic and Sue John, all of whom contributed threat suggestions to this episode Community Signal episode with Andrew Losowsky of The Coral Project “A Guide to Crap Detection Resources,” maintained by Howard Rheingold and Robin Good “How CNN and The New York Times Moderate Comments” by Patrick, where David Williams of CNN commented on anonymity “How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life” by Jon Ronson for The New York Times Magazine, which Tracey cited as an example of posting something online without thinking of the actual repercussions Wikipedia page for censorship of Facebook, mentioning China’s censorship of the social network after it was used  as a tool by activists OpenGov Foundation, a “fiercely apolitical non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to serving those who serve the people in America’s legislatures” Countable, providing U.S. citizens with concise summaries of legislation Hoaxy, which visualizes how claims spread through social media Snopes, a fact-checking website, that has been identifying untrue claims since 1994 PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking website Rest in peace, Prodigy NICD on Twitter Transcript View the transcript on our website Your Thoughts If you have any thoughts on this episode that you’d like to share, please leave me a comment, send me an email or a tweet. If you enjoy the show, we would be so grateful if you spread the word and supported Community Signal on Patreon. Thank you for listening to Community Signal.

Right now there are 400,000 bots creating around 20% of all Internet chatter. How are we meant to determine the authority of the online content we read if there are now robots and non-humans generating such a large percent of it? In Episode 8, Howard Rheingold—critic, writer, teacher, and one of the earliest pioneers of the Internet—and Tom Serres discuss Fake News and the Real Politics of Technology. Howard has always been ten-years ahead of everyone else, and was writing about social media way back in the 90s. He has written various books on the cultural, social, and political implications of modern communication media, cementing his status as a leading thinker in social media. In this episode we look at the issues of fake news and Internet literacy. There are various things that have an effect on the way we experience tech, from the type of political environment we are into our own individual knowledge of certain technology. So the best way we can currently improve our use of tech and the Internet is to ensure we have the best fact-checking tools and sites at our disposal. But then, who’s fact-checking the fact-checking sites? Howard also discusses the need to control our own attention. As the web was created by people, the way we think of it affects how it evolves. If we only use the web as an echo chamber, we only reinforce our own opinions, which makes it incredibly difficult for people to look beyond what they believe. For the Internet to continue being valuable, we need to figure out how to give people the tools and desire to fact-check.

Howard Rheingold is a critic, writer, and teacher; his specialties are on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities (a term he is credited with inventing). In this episode “Virtual Community” pioneer talks about the good, bad, and ugly of social media- from the ultimate collaboration tool to a destructive jealousy site.

In episode 30, Dan and Michael talk Virtual Communities, co-learning, and more with the great Howard Rheingold.

Bitte schreibt mir eine Bewertung auf Itunes https://itunes.apple.com/de/podcast/hebelzeit-zeit-investieren/id1137433304 Ich bin zwar schon seit 2006 Unternehmer, aber sagen wir doch besser Freelancer. Und in dieser Rolle habe ich für viele verschiedene Firmen gearbeitet. Manchmal länger, manchmal kürzer, aber ich war ganz klar in der Rolle, dass ich Zeit gegen Geld getauscht habe. Andere haben sich darum gekümmert Projekte an den Start zu bringen und ich habe diese dann umgesetzt. Das war aber nur ein Teil, meist habe ich nebenbei auch immer versucht das nächste Große Ding zu rocken und bin damit zu 100% gescheitert. Meist war es so, dass ich etwas angefangen habe auf das ich mich für 3 Monate konzentriert habe. Dann ging mir so langsam das Geld aus und ich habe mir wieder Aufträge gesucht. Das waren dann auch wieder 3 Monate. Es ging also über Jahre hin und her. 2012 war ich dann im Silicon Valley und habe dort das Prinzip Lean Startup kennen gelernt und habe mir gesagt: Jetzt mache ich es einmal richtig. 2013 ging ich also an den Start, mit dem Ziel ein echtes Unternehmen aufzubauen. Ich wollte Videos machen und Leuten beibringen wie Sie dieses geniale Medium nutzen können. Und dann ging es los. Build, Measure, Learn und wieder zurück auf 0. Im ersten halben Jahr habe ich mehr als 10 Geschäftsmodelle durchprobiert, bis ich am Ende herausgefunden habe, wie ich am Ende des Monats mehr Geld auf dem Konto habe als am Anfang. Und das krasseste ist, oft kommt es nur auf Details an. Und diese Details lernt man eben nur, wenn man testet. Wenn ihr mehr wollt, dann schreibt mir hier einen Kommentar: http://hebelzeit.de/podcast/06-schoener-scheitern-mit-lean-startup/ Tipp der Woche: Verkauft etwas, das die Leute schon jetzt aktiv brauchen. Versucht nicht einen Markt aufzubauen, das könnt ihr machen, wenn ihr größer seid. Wie man dabei vorgehen sollte, könnt ihr in diesen Folgen erfahren: http://hebelzeit.de/podcast/04-lean-startup-mach-was-das-andere-wollen/ http://hebelzeit.de/podcast/05-lean-startup-mvp/ Und wenn ihr die Folge nochmal nachlesen wollt, dann schaut auf meinen Blogartikel von 2013 http://alexboerger.de/blog/mein-lean-startup-jahr-2013/ Mein Interview mit Howard Rheingold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbTktkxLptM

“To really answer the question, what is a question, is a very good question.” -Dr. Zeray Alemseged   What we can do? That question confronts, inquires, investigates and challenges. And it, by no means, is simple to define. For this episode of Some Noise, we try and get to the bottom of questions and ask a bunch of different people, from a linguistics professor, an experienced LSD taker to a futurist: “What is a question?”   Show Notes: [00:05] “Hypnosister” by LUMP [02:30] Zeray Alemseged (TED Talk, 2007) [02:40] On the Discovery of Selam (CNN, 2013) [03:55] “Vibrant Canopy” by Blue Dot Sessions [06:25] “Insatiable Toad” by Blue Dot Sessions [08:10] Bio for Eve Clark A short film with the same score [13:15] “Denmark” by Portland Cello Project [19:20] More on The Stanford Prison Experiment (Los Angeles Times, 2004) [22:20] “An Introduction to Beatles” by Blue Dot Sessions [28:00] Howard Rheingold (@hrheingold) [28:25] KLIF Dallas Radio Broadcast of President John F. Kennedy’s Assassination [29:55] Virtual communities, the WELL and the Whole Earth Review (The Atlantic, 2012) [30:10] The Martian Report [32:00] “Inside the Paper Crane” by Blue Dot Sessions [33:45] U.S. crackdown on LSD (Chicago Tribune, 1964) [36:10] Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal (@rosey18) [37:20] The Mountain War (The New York Times, 1982) [38:50] “Wax Paper Jewel” by Blue Dot Sessions [44:55] Alexander Rose, Long Now Foundation (@zander) [45:15] The 10,000 Year Clock [47:00] “Inside the Origami Violin” by Blue Dot Sessions

Howard Rheingold is a self described communicator and artist. He is also the author of Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution and Net Smart: How to Thrive Online . The podcast explores the theme of digital literacy. Figures like Doug Engelbart and Vannevar Bush are also discussed. Other books discussed include Walter Isaacson’s The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution and Anne Blair’s Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age. Open hardware like Raspberry Pi Model B+ (B PLUS) 512MB Computer Board and Arduino Uno Ultimate Starter Kit — Includes 72 page Instruction Book are also touched upon. RIP website: remotely-interested.com RIP facebook: https://www.facebook.com/remotely.interested/ RIP twitter: https://twitter.com/ThatInterested

Dr. Armin Nassehi, ordentlicher Professor für Soziologie an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, unterhält sich mit Dr. Udo Thiedeke über uns als Architekten vergänglicher Dauerhaftigkeiten in einer Gesellschaft dauerhafter Vergänglichkeiten.Shownotes:#00:05:03# Hier kommt Kant auf die "Beharrlichkeit der Substanz" zu sprechen: Immanuel Kant, 1781: Critik der reinen Vernunft. Riga: Hartknoch. S. 212#00:07:11# Zur Idee der "digitalisierten Codierung der Gesellschaft": Armin Nassehi, 2015: Die letzte Stunde der Wahrheit. Warum links und rechts keine Alternativen mehr sind und Gesellschaft ganz anders beschrieben werden muss. Hamburg: Murmann. S. 159ff.#00:07:58# Alois Hahn, 1983: Konsensfiktionen in Kleingruppen. Dargestellt am Beispiel von jungen Ehen, in: Friedhelm Neidhardt (Hrsg.): Gruppensoziologie. Perspektiven und Materialien. Sonderheft 25 der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. Köln: Westdeutscher Verlag. S. 210-232.#00:10:06# Hinweise auf Derridas Metaphysikkritik an Architekten und Architektur finden sich in seinem Briefwechsel mit Peter Eisenman, siehe: Peter Eisenman, 1995: Aura und Exzeß. Zur Überwindung der Metaphysik in der Architektur. Herausgegeben von Ullrich Schwarz. Wien: Passagen.#00:11:20# Siehe zur Bauweise und sozialen Konfiguration der "bürgerlichen Wohnung" im 19. Jhr.: Sophie Hellgardt, 2011: Zehn Zimmer: Die bürgerliche Stadtwohnung des 19. Jahrhunderts. Eine Analyse nach Norbert Elias. Köln: PapyRossa-Verlag.#00:12:10# Schon seit Jahrzehnten bevorzugen Architekturbüros loftähnliche Arbeitsumgebungen. Online#00:13:17# Ein Beispiel zur Architektur von Zaha Hadid, hier die Bergstation der Hungerburgbahn bei Innsbruck. Online #00:13:48# So sieht sie aus, die "Architecture" der BMW-Welt, wo Design die Funktion "trifft". Online#00:14:26# Der in Wien niedergelassene Architekt und Literat Adolf Loos polemisierte 1908 in seinem Vortrag "Ornament und Verbrechen" u.a. gegen die ornamentale Baukunst. In Auszügen siehe hier: Online#00:16:00# Zur Kleidermode als individuelles Reflexionsmedium siehe Udo Thiedeke, 2009: "Nur der zuletzt empfundene Eindruck ist wichtig" Mode als paradoxes Reflexionsmedium, in: Herbert Willems (Hrsg.): Theatralisierung der Gesellschaft. Bd. 1: Soziologische Theorien und Zeitdiagnose. Wiesbaden. VS-Verlag. S. 183-201.#00:18:55# Die angesprochene systemtheoretische Perspektive einer funktional, also nach Funktionen, Funktionssystemen und Funktionserwartungen differenzierten, Gesellschaft geht auf Niklas Luhmann zurück. Siehe z.B.: Niklas Luhmann, 1998: Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft. 2. Teilband. Frankfurt/M. besonders S. 743ff.#00:24:17# Zur Kritik von Subjektivierungsprozessen siehe etwa bereits in den 1970er Jahren: Louis Althusser, 1976: Idéologie et appareils idéologiques d'État. Notes pour une recherche, in: Ders.: Positions. Paris. Éditions sociales. S. 79-137. Inzwischen in einer praxistheoretischen Fassung, etwa: Thomas Alkemeyer, 2013: Subjektivierung in sozialen Praktiken. Umrisse einer praxeologischen Analytik. in: Thomas Alkemeyer, Gunilla Budde, Dagmar Freist (Hrsg.): Selbst-Bildungen. Soziale und kulturelle Praktiken der Subjektivierung. Bielefeld: transcript. S. 29-64.#00:27:15# Die Protestantisierung der Diskurse mit Verweis auf Max Weber spielt auf dessen Untersuchung "Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus" an, siehe: Max Weber, 1920: Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssoziologie I Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr. S. 1-206.#00:28:50# Siehe zum Konzept des Habitus bei Pierre Bourdieu: Pierre Bourdieu, 1982: Die feinen Unterschiede - Kritik der gesellschaftlichen Urteilskraft. Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp.#00:31:15# Wolfgang Streeck, 2013: Gekaufte Zeit. Die vertagte Krise des demokratischen Kapitalismus. Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp.#00:33:55# Zur Konfliktregulation durch Institutionen siehe z.B.: M. Rainer Lepsius, 1990: Interessen, Ideen und Institutionen. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.#00:36:18# Zu den angesprochenen Übersetzungspraktiken: Armin Nassehi, 2015: Die letzte Stunde der Wahrheit. Warum links und rechts keine Alternativen mehr sind und Gesellschaft ganz anders beschrieben werden muss. Hamburg: Murmann. S. 267ff.#00:36:54# Zur Bedeutung von Organisationen für Individuen und die Mitgliedschaft in Organisationen siehe z.B. Niklas Luhmann, 2006: Organisation und Entscheidung. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. Siehe auch Kap. XIV "Organisation und Gesellschaft" in: ders., 1998: Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft. Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp. S. 826ff.#00:43:28# das DFG Projekt „Übersetzungskonflikte" (Antragsteller: Armin Nassehi und Irmhild Saake) untersucht seit dem 1.4.2015 am Institut für Soziologie der LMU München, wie sich in ausgewählten Konfliktfällen der Gesellschaft (z.B. Palliativmedizin, Beschneidungsdebatte, Lebendorganspende) Sprecher unterschiedlicher Provenienz aufeinander beziehen und die unterschiedlichen Logiker in Echtzeit ineinander übersetzt werden.#00:47:00# Jürgen Habermas hat sich bereits in den 1970er Jahren Gedanken über die Revisionsfähigkeit politischer Entscheidungen gemacht. Siehe: Jürgen Habermas, 1976: Zur Rekonstruktion des Historischen Materialismus, Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp. S. 117.#00:49:29# In Bezug zu den angesprochenen "Büroarbeitsplätzen ganz neuen Typs" bei Unicredit Hypo Vereinsbank München, siehe das Für und Wider in der Umsetzung z.B. von sog. Open-Space-Arbeitsplatzkonzepten: Online#00:54:40# Zum computergesteuerten, 'algorithmischen' Handel an den Börsen (Algotrading) und seinen Konsequenzen, siehe: Lothar Lochmaier, 2010: Algotrading: Wie selbst zerstörerisch ist der automatisierte Computerhandel? in Telepolis 18.10.2010. Online#00:56:30# Zur Vision von Howard Rheingold zur Virtual Commonity siehe: Howard Rheingold, 1993: The virtual community: homesteading on the electronic frontier. Reading Mass.: Addison-Wesley. Deutsche Ausgabe, 1994: Virtuelle Gemeinschaft: Soziale Beziehungen im Zeitalter des Computers. Bonn, Paris, Reading Mass.: Addison-Wesley.#00:57:07# Zu den Verknüpfungs- und Analysevisionen grosser Datenmengen im I-Net (Big Data), siehe etwa eher feuilletonistisch: Heinrich Geiselberger und Tobias Moorstedt (Redaktion), 2013: Big Data. Das neue Versprechen der Allwissenheit. 2. Aufl. Berlin: Suhrkamp.#00:57:59# Hier der Verweis auf die "letzte Stunde": Armin Nassehi, 2015: Die letzte Stunde der Wahrheit: warum rechts und links keine Alternativen mehr sind und Gesellschaft ganz anders beschrieben werden muss. Hamburg: Murrmann.#00:59:45# Zu Übersicht über die utopischen Entwürfen der Gartenstadt und ihre Realisationen. Online#01:08:35# Gina Atzeni, 2016: Professionelles Erwartungsmanagement. Zur soziologischen Bedeutung des Arzt-Narrativ. Baden-Baden: Nomos.#01:09:38# Zur Siedlung Emmertsgrund auf dem Boxberg bei Heidelberg, die unter planerischer Mitwirkung von Alexander Mitscherlich entstand. Online#01:10:41# Ansatz und Problem der sog. Modernisierungstheorie in der Soziologie und Politikwissenschaft war vor allem in den 1960er und 70er Jahren gewesen, nicht nur theoretisch/empirische Einschätzungen der Entwicklung von Nationalstaaten, sondern Modelle für diese Entwicklung insbesondere unter Konvergenzgesichtspunkten hin zu einem "westlichen" Modell von Modernisierung zu liefern. Hierzu grundlegend: Daniel Lerner, 1958: The Passing of Traditional Society. Modernizing the Middle East. London: Macmillan.[alle Links aktuell Mai/Juni 2015]Dauer 01:15:28 Folge direkt herunterladen

Tom wishes Heron a Happy Birthday. The listeners have voted and Heron should watch Gremlins. Tom comprehends adoption. How do you deal with angry people? Russell Brand needs to find new insightful political allies. Constraints are tightening, how can we get information out? Tom recommends Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge and Howard Rheingold. They discuss new year's resolutions in the framing of low-light. What are the givens of cities? Tom raises tree-houses for living and ponders Amazon.

Tom wishes Heron a Happy Birthday. The listeners have voted and Heron should watch Gremlins. Tom comprehends adoption. How do you deal with angry people? Russell Brand needs to find new insightful political allies. Constraints are tightening, how can we get information out? Tom recommends Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge and Howard Rheingold. They discuss new year's resolutions in the framing of low-light. What are the givens of cities? Tom raises tree-houses for living and ponders Amazon.

Howard Rheingold has been writing and teaching about technology for decades, and his ideas are nuanced, provocative, thoughtful and applicable in many different areas. We talk about managing attention, teaching, learning and all kinds of other interesting concepts. If you're not already acquainted with his ideas, listen to this podcast and then check out the links below. If you are, you will enjoy hearing his latest thoughts. Photo Credit: Fabrice Florin Links mentioned: Rheingold.com DS106 Connected Courses Peeragogy The Well Net Smart: How to Thrive Online --- Subcsribe to the WET Podcast in iTunes | Main page for The WET Podcast You can follow me at @emarsh. Music: “Double the Daily Dose” by Revolution Void (http://www.revolutionvoid.com)

This week is our back to school special. Our guest is Colette Mondor, an educator in Canada. We talk using devices, app stores and security with students. Further discussion includes the importance of teaching empathy, and the value of ensuring that your children know how to find trustworthy information online. Get Montreal Sauce: The Wearable! For the next week we have a t-shit for sale. Get it now, it will no longer be available after the week. Recently, on our Twitter account we asked what fans would like to be called. Welcome Sausages! Colette recently presented at the GAFE Summit in Calgary. G.A.F.E. stands for Google Apps for Education. Colette owns a brand new Chromebook with an Intel Core i3 chip. Gamification is a big movement in education to get students more engaged. Therefore, the EdTech Team chose to gamify the summit. Read & Write for Google helps students who have a difficulty reading. Colette suggests using this extension for math story problems for those students. Colette believes one of the things that often gets missed when teaching with technology is digital citizenship. Of course, we all agree that many adults could use that same lesson. Many schools are going one to one with devices, assigning students iPads or tablets from kindergarten on. Using tablets and iPads as shared devices, with multiple classes/students, is difficult because they are meant for individuals. Schools can secure Google tablets & with Google Apps Device Policy but added security becomes troublesome with younger students. Android tablets do have multiple users but backing up user apps & data is difficult and doesn’t work well at all. Chris talks about volunteering in the classroom, and Colette corrects him by inventing a great new word. Chris is voluntold to go to school and help. Chris and guest Colette slip into their old podcast, The Sexy Back Tour while discussing this summer’s travels. Chris went to many weddings this summer including one featured on national news because it was on ice. The hockey wedding (more pics if you are one of those wedding lovers) took place in Michigan, not Canada. WAIT. WHAT? During the road trip to multiple weddings Chris went to the ER. He was the lucky winner of Bell’s palsy. Also, Chris wants a summer home in Nelson, B.C. Paul shares theories on digital identities from Jeff Jarvis who can be found on This Week in Google podcast. Chris adds that he recently finished a book by Howard Rheingold called Net Smart: How to Thrive Online. We learned why “zee” replaced “zed” in America English thanks to masteraramil in the chatroom. We get into the metric system vs. the Imperial units. Fahrenheit vs. Celsius vs. Kelvin. Don’t forget about the Montreal Sauce tee available for a limited time! Thanks to our friend at nocturnal for the suggestion of Cotton Bureau. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

Howard Rheingold has a knack for understanding the future. In the 1980's he wrote "Tools for Thought," a book about the personal computer and the coming era of mind-expanding technology, and recently he's published "Net Smart" about how humanity can help itself through collaboration on the web. He teaches a class on collaboration at Standford, and in this episode, shares some of his biggest lessons about the past and potentially revolutionary future of how humans share and collaborate to make everyone's life better. For More Information, Visit the HUB of Startups / Business in Emerging Technology. From Robotic Limbs to Getting Angel Investment, from Biotech to Intellectual Property: http://www.TechEmergence.com Interested in the Future of Humanity and the Ramifications of Emerging Tech? Sentient Potential Covers the Ethical Considerations and Future Projections at the Crossroads of Technology and Consciousness: http://www.SentientPotential.com

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Howard Rheingold - author, virtual community pioneer, and self-described "online instigator & expert learner" - chats with us about the need for an education system "upgrade," and the importance of teachers being "co-learners" with their students. You are welcome to connect with him on Twitter via @hrheingold. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Connected Learning TV" (http://connectedlearning.tv) is a weekly webinar series with organizations, projects, and individuals who align with the Connected Learning vision. In this Mar. 11, 2014 episode, we chat with Jim Groom, Alan Levine, and Howard Rheingold about "Digital Storytelling 106" (DS106) - a computer science course that evolved into a massive, open course on digital storytelling. You can catch a full video recording & other related resources at http://bit.ly/1gm1b1N

Thriving Online with Howard Rheingold - Episode 13 Marc, Scott, and Randy interview Howard Rheingold - critic, writer, and teacher; his specialties are on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities. Links and transcript are available at http://socialmediaclarity.net    

Author of Net Smart: How to Thrive Online, on Sedge Thomson's West Coast Live

Join us for a discussion with author Howard Rheingold. In his new book, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online, Rheingold asks, how can we use digital media so that they help us become empowered participants rather than passive consumers; grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking neurotics? In Net Smart, he demonstrates how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully. Mindful use of digital media means thinking about what we are doing, cultivating an ongoing inner inquiry into how we want to spend our time. Rheingold outlines five fundamental digital literacies, online skills that will help us do this: attention, participation, collaboration, critical consumption of information (or "crap detection"), and network smarts. He explains how attention works, and how we can use our attention to focus on the tiny relevant portion of the incoming tsunami of information. He describes the quality of participation that empowers the best of the bloggers, netizens, tweeters, and other online community participants; he examines how successful online collaborative enterprises contribute new knowledge to the world in new ways; and he presents a lesson on networks and network building. There is a bigger social issue at work in digital literacy, one that goes beyond personal empowerment. If we combine our individual efforts wisely, it could produce a more thoughtful society: countless small acts like publishing a Web page or sharing a link could add up to a public good that enriches everybody.

Digital media has impacted our lives in staggering ways, and few people have chronicled that impact more thoughtfully than Howard Rheingold. In this Horizon Connect webinar, Howard Discusses his new book, "Net Smart. How to Thrive Online." He encourages his audience to think more strategically about digital media and its applications in each of our lives and our work.

Howard Rheingold offers a glimpse of the future of high-end online learning in which motivated self-learners collaborate via a variety of social media to create, deliver, and learn an agreed curriculum: a mutant variety of pedagogy that more closely resembles a peer-agogy. Rheingold proposes that our intention should be to teach ourselves how to teach ourselves online, and to share what we learn. He will show how the use of social media in courses he has taught about social media issues led him to co-redesign his curriculum, which led to more active participation by students in co-teaching the course.

        Creating a Tweet (and more!) Newpaper Paper.li home page Howard Rheingold’s Paper.li Education Technology curated by Lisa Koster Social Learning Daily curated by Carlos Suso The Learning4Tomorrow Daily curated by Elliott Rosenberg   Scoop.it homepage #elearning_Aneesh curated by Aneesh Bhat Games + Learning for Higher Education curated by Michelle A. Hoyle […]

From SxSW in Austin, Heather Gold and Kevin Marks talk with Howard Rheingold, who has been studying and writing inspiringly about virtual communities since the 1990s, and has been online continually since the mid-1980s. His The Art of Hosting Good Conversations […]

They Don’t Have a Word for It; Book Announcement from Psammeticus Press; From Volume CLVII, Number 4 of Speculative Grammarian, December 2009. — With the inexplicable success of pseudo-lexicons such as Howard Rheingold’s 2000 “They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases”, C. J. Moore’s 2004 “In Other Words: A Language Lover’s Guide to the Most Intriguing Words Around the World”, and Adam Jacot de Boinod’s 2005 “The Meaning of Tingo: And Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World”, a native speaker of English could get the sinking feeling that English lacks the basic expressiveness needed to convey the most basic human needs and desires. (Read by Trey Jones.)

Visionary Howard Rheingold talks with Rod about the future of smart mobs, social media and the global village.

Visionary Howard Rheingold talks with Rod about the future of smart mobs, social media and the global village.

I wish I could remember who gave me the book by Howard Rheingold: They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases. (Sigh.) If you ever give me a book, please write me a note in the front of it so I don't sit scratching my head wondering where I got it. https://wizardacademy.org/scripts/openExtra.asp?extra=61 (But thank you, friend,) it's an interesting book. Here's what I found on page 249: “Gestalten – (German noun) Little wholes that make up larger wholes. The methodology of every respectable science is to analyze the subject matter of chemistry, physics, or biology until the 'fundamental particles' of that system are known. The payoff is very high for those who can see the world as a collection of different parts, so those of us who inhabit industrialized, science-based cultures tend to develop acute perceptions for parts, while neglecting the skill of seeing webs of interactions between the parts.  However, a subtle shift has recently come to the world of scientific knowledge: The notion of whole systems has become fashionable.” I agree with Rheingold, especially when it comes to business. The tendency of business has always been to look at the “pieces” separately. As an example, most businesses treat advertising and sales training as separate departments – pieces – when they're really just the beginning and end of a single effort at persuasion. Do you distribute copies of your ads to your salespeople on the day the ads are released? If not, why not? Do you really want your customers to know more about what's going on than your sales team? Compartmentalization is likewise a problem in medicine, causing doctors to treat symptoms instead of the root disease. In advertising and medicine we need to step back and look at a bigger picture. But I believe the opposite is true in the realm of Thought. If you want to craft a message that transfers a thought – whether your thought-carrier be visual, verbal, musical, tactile, olfactory or gustatory – don't pull back for an overview, but break each element of your message into its constituent components. EXAMPLE: The science of chemistry is a systematic understanding of all the possible combinations of positively charged protons, negatively charged electrons and neutral neutrons. Only after we had deconstructed matter into its constituent components did we learn to design substances with the specific characteristics we desired. Likewise, if we want to 1.   craft a thought 2.   make an accurate statement 3.   transfer a feeling 4.   capture a mood 5.   paint a picture 6.   send a signal or 7.   persuade a person, we must create a message with specific characteristics. The lens that revealed the mysteries of chemical composition wasn't a pull-back, big-picture lens but a zoom-into-the-heart-of-it, detail lens. We had to answer the question, “What is the smallest unit of matter?” Likewise, the emerging science of Thought Particles is built upon the question, “What is the smallest unit of Thought?” At present, I'm convinced there are 12 basic languages of the mind and 12 shadow languages. Think of the first 12 with a plus sign (+) next to them. Think of the second 12 followed by a minus sign (-). Now think of coming to Austin for the https://wizardacademy.org/scripts/prodList.asp?idCategory=130 (Advanced Thought Particles workshop). I may be chasing the mirage of a rabbit through an imaginary forest. But if I'm not, artificial intelligence is right around the corner. Aroooo! Aroo-arooo! Roy H. Williams

Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes 00:00:00 - Speaker 1: I think the process is just inherently much messier than that, and you need to let go a little bit and say the tool is going to help you make this stew, and then you’ll sleep on it for a few days and then somewhere else, something new will pop out. Hello and welcome to Meta Muse. Muse is software for your iPad that helps you with ideation and problem solving, but this podcast isn’t about Muse the product, it’s about Muse, the company and the small team behind it. I’m Mark McGranaghan, and I’m here today with my colleague Adam Wiggins. How’s it going, Adam? 00:00:30 - Speaker 2: I’m pretty good, Mark. I just got back from a short trip up to the Baltic Sea, which is a pretty easy train ride from where I live in Berlin. This is the first real trip I’ve taken since, I guess, pandemic started, so about 667 months. And it was really refreshing, even though it was just a couple of days, and I was reminded of something you said when we, I think it was in our very 2nd episode of the podcast about having good ideas, which is how fresh surroundings refresh your brain creatively. And yeah, I had that there and it was really, was really that came to mind because I was really reminded of how much I, I missed that in this time where travel is not a part of our lives the way it used to be. 00:01:12 - Speaker 1: Yeah, I’m always surprised by how powerful that effect is. So today our topic is tools for thought. Now Adam, what does that mean for you? 00:01:21 - Speaker 2: Well, Tools for Though means a lot of things to me, but I think the first place my head goes to is Howard Rheingold’s classic book from, I think it was the 80s, where he details Xerox PARC and many of these visionary folks who are thinking about computing in its early days and what that could do for humans and our creative and productive lives. But I actually stepped back even a little bit from there because the original tools for thought, I feel like are anything that lets you externalize your thoughts. And so pen and paper, you know, writing, language, uh, is the starting place there, the printing press maybe. Uh, but more in modern times, things like sketchbooks or I don’t know, in a startup office, you’ve got whiteboards in a school, you’ve got chalkboards, Post-it notes are a great tool for thought, in fact, because you can write down these little snippets of information and move them around maybe in a physical space with colleagues. Um, there’s even something like, I remember at a team summit we had a few years back, might have even been there in the park in Seattle, you wanted to illustrate a point and ended up grabbing a stick and basically drawing a very simple diagram in the dirt, right? So anything that lets you really either make visual or somehow externalize what’s in your mind, I think is, is a type of tool for thought. And that also includes, I think the cult of the consumption side, which is Um, what I usually call active reading. So a book and a highlighter together, I think is, is a type of tool for thought. The act of highlighting passages that you find impactful or relevant to what you’re trying to learn about makes this learning, this reading process into an active process and a learning one, and that, that becomes a tool for thought as well. 00:03:06 - Speaker 1: Yeah, and I’m sure we’ll dive into a lot of different kind of specific instantiations of tools for thought. But another way to think about this is, what is the problem you’re trying to solve here? Two possibilities, one would be, you’re trying to obtain the knowledge that has already been generated by someone else. You’re trying to learn some facts, memorize some figures, maybe uh retain some ideas and different tools for thought can help you with that. Another angle would be, you’re trying to generate new ideas, novel thoughts, and uh a tool might help you accomplish that as well. And I think actually which one you’re trying to do is quite important for which tool you choose. 00:03:40 - Speaker 2: Yeah, another reference I was looking up in prep for this episode was Andy Matzek’s work, and he’s got a piece called How Do We Develop Transformative Tools for Thought, and his work, his current research track is more on that learning, retaining side of things, these mnemonic devices and so on. This is a nice article. I’ll I’ll link it to the show notes because he does on the later part of the article, he describes a lot of this history, particularly around the computing tools for thought, Steve Jobs and the bicycle for the Mind. Uh, he talks about that he thinks, quoting Alan Kay, who’s who’s one of the sort of big visionaries in this world, uh, as saying that actually medium for thought in some cases might be a better, better term, but for whatever reason, the, uh, the tools for thought seems to be the, the label that that stock. So Andy’s work, I think it’s a good example of the how do you how do you get more out of what you’re trying to learn about and then there’s the having ideas or generating new thoughts or generating original ideas, which is obviously the space Muse is trying to plan or at least we’re trying to create a tool that can help the the end user to have better ideas to develop their ideas. So yeah, coming back to the digital space, the Tools for Thought book spends time on, for example, the Xerox PARC lab that invented a lot of the modern GUI operating system and other things that we, we sort of take for granted in the modern computing world. There’s also folks like Doug Engelbart and his vision to augment human intellect. There’s people like Alan Kay who invented small talk and object-oriented programming, had this vision for a thing called a DynaBook that I guess you could say physically looked a lot like an iPad looks today, but was more focused on the creative and productive uses of computing. And there’s even stuff like, uh, or folks like Vever Bush, who wrote an essay that people still quote today from the 1940s about this thing called a Memax or this vision he had for a thing called a Memex. And I think one thing you get when people talk about these, uh, the Engelbarts and caves and bushes. They’re often sort of lamenting a future that maybe we were dreaming of in these times that then you look at today’s computing and for all the really impressive technology that we have and all the things that computers and software and the internet can do for us, in some ways, we didn’t really fulfill some of the beautiful vision that these folks had. In fact, I think some of those folks are even in some ways a bit bitter, you know, towards the end of their careers when they see all these startups and whatever, putting all this money into these shiny products that in fact are more kind of entertainment boxes rather than something designed to really elevate the human race. 00:06:23 - Speaker 1: Yeah, and Andy makes a point in his article that there are good economic reasons why that’s the case or why we would expect that to be the case. Um, essentially because new ideas and tools for thought are sort of public good, so it’s hard to capture economic value when you make innovations in that space. Um, but we still think it’s possible, um, both to have new ideas here and to build a business around it. 00:06:43 - Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I guess if we fast forward a little bit from the Halcyon. Days of these, these computing visionaries in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, a little bit more to when personal computing became commonplace, maybe the 1990s, and I think what you see is when you, or at least when I think of productivity software really broadly speaking, I tend to think of authoring, what I usually call authoring applications. This is something like you use Illustrator, if you’re a designer or you use Microsoft Word, if you’re a writer, or use Excel if you’re a financial analyst. These are really designed for an end artifact. You’re producing something to be consumed by someone else. When you type into your word processor, it’s because eventually you want to publish that book or publish an article online. I think folks often do use these offering. Tools for the thinking phase. If you’ve ever opened your word processor or programmer, maybe use a text editor or something like that to sketch down some ideas, not what the intention is that’s ever going to be given to someone else, but to get your own, your own head together. Just because that’s the tool, you know how to use, it’s right there, but it’s not really designed for that. In fact, in a way, it’s it’s a poor fit, you just happen to know about it. And I’ve seen some really creative uses, uh, certainly on the, for people that like laying things out visually and spatially kind of like we. We strive for with Muse. We’ve seen, for example, um, we saw someone that did a master’s, did all their master’s thesis research in illustrator, because they wanted to lay out all these papers they were reading and the excerpts they were taking from them and how they all connect together. They wanted on this big spatial canvas. And it turns out that illustrator was the best choice for that at that time. Maybe nowadays people do that with figA somewhat, which I think is great, uh, that people are doing these innovative uses. But that was part of what led to the impetus for us wanting to build a tool for thought that was more something that’s purpose built for enhancing the individual’s or even a group’s thinking. Now in practice, because we’ve seen so few commercial tools for thought, I wonder if that means that either people don’t value that ideation step enough to want to invest in that. So that’s, you know, monetarily, do they want to pay for software, but it’s also just taking the time to learn a piece of software. Uh, or to put your data and your thoughts into a piece of software when that’s not the end place it’s going to be. Um, so I think that’s, that’s certainly a, you know, a risk or an open question for Muse and really anyone else that’s working on a Uh, on a tool for thought. 00:09:13 - Speaker 1: Yeah, I do think there’s a commercial piece there where the obviously biggest market is when you’re close to the end product that you’re producing for a business, and you’re producing a presentation, you’re producing a book, there’s obvious economic value that you want to attach to that and there’s a bunch bunch of people who obviously need to do that. 00:09:28 - Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that’s most notable when you, when you try to sell software to professionals, if you say one of the best pitches you can offer is this will make you look really good to your client. You will close more deals or you will impress your boss or you will get that big, that big deal that you’re trying to do and so presentation software or really good, you know, financial modeling or, you know, the word processor, that’s, that’s the value there is, is really clear to people. If you say this will make your ideas better or make your decisions better for some reason that that’s a less poignant sales pitch, I think. 00:10:00 - Speaker 1: Yeah, and I keep coming back to this idea that there’s an incomplete understanding of the creative process. We’ve long advocated for this. 3-step process where you’re 1, gathering raw materials, 2, actively reading, processing, ruminating, brainstorming on those materials, and then 3, offering an end product. I think a lot of people think of the creative process as 1 and 3, because there’s obvious, you know, physical content that you’re dealing with in each of those cases that you have to pull in some raw materials like site in your paper, and you have to produce a paper at the end to send to the publisher, but you can kind of get away without doing the middle stuff without, you know, thinking. Um, or you can just do it all in your head, but the premise with Muse is that there’s a very powerful and important second step there that with the right tooling support can give you even more power as a thinker. 00:10:47 - Speaker 2: Yeah, one place that Tools for Thought has come back into the current conversation is the product Rome Research, who’s been getting a lot of traction among people who I think like to think deeply, particularly built around a daily journaling practice, which I think is a really A good way to get your thoughts out in a free form way. Uh, one of the things I remember them complaining about, if that’s the right way to put it, is being trapped in this category of note taking. Note taking is an interesting category because it seems to span a lot of things. You’ve got a classic like Evernote. Which in theory should be kind of a tool for thought. It’s supposed to be sort of a second brain. You put stuff into it, you can find it later. But the reality is it doesn’t necessarily help you find connections. I think it sort of failed to deliver on that promise. It’s maybe more of a knowledge base or knowledge store. I use Dropbox for that, for example, and I think that’s true for a lot of notes apps, things we’ve talked about here before, something like a bear, for example. It’s a really nice way to quickly capture a thought, you know, on your smartphone and then you have access to it later, but it’s not really a place to do a lot of deep ideation. I don’t know, maybe you sketched down a few, few thoughts you have in bullet point form, but it’s not a good place for really freeform ideation and maybe that’s a place where Rome is helping change. Things a little bit. Uh, I also see this tool for thought, uh, sometimes applied to some other hot new products which include notion, which is more of a team wiki team brain kind of thing, but I think it can fit with that as well. FIMA, as previously mentioned, sometimes people use it as this kind of visual canvas, even something like Air Table, which is a spreadsheet, but often again, people use it in these team contexts to capture knowledge, uh, and to basically find shared understanding on the team. It’s not in. there’s no end artifact for the client. Uh, it’s more internal to what the team’s own sense of understanding of problem space. 00:12:37 - Speaker 1: Yeah, now what’s interesting to me is why are tools like this useful tools for thought. I think some people would say it’s because for example, you can capture and store all this information and you can form explicit links between them and everything is organized and searchable, and I think there’s something to that. There’s certainly um value. In that use case, but I believe that most of the creative work the mind does, especially around generating new ideas, is not done in your thinking mind. It’s basically not done consciously. You have this massively parallel process running in your background, including when you’re sleeping, that’s generating new ideas, forming, forming new connections, and you basically can’t think your way, can’t put 1 ft in front of the other to get to new ideas like that. You have to just kind of let it go wild and hope, hope it comes up with something. And the way you feed that process is you ruminate over a lot of interesting intellectual material. So the reason I think these apps are useful for two of thought is twofold. One is people like to use them. They just like to spend time writing notes in Rome and kind of regardless of where those notes end up or if you ever read them again, just the process of writing and thinking as you’re writing. Generates a lot of fodder for this process in your, in your sleeping mind. And number 2, increasingly these tools support multimedia, and I, I’ve long said creative thinking never takes uh just one medium, it’s never just text or just images and tools like Figma, it’s very easy to make a canvas where you have images and text and vector graphics and so on, all in one place. I think that’s important because that’s again, naturally how the mind thinks creatively. 00:14:08 - Speaker 2: For sure. I’m a big believer in the, as you said, feeding the sleeping mind problem, working on problems in the background, stew, and yeah, this externalizing your thoughts in some form is a way that helps you turn it over. And that can be lots of different forms. It can be sketching, it can be writing, voice memoing is another interesting trick, even just talking to another person, right? This is where an open-ended chat, you know, the classic water cooler talk or just taking a walk and talking with a colleague, working through something that that helps see that that’s doing that background process in the brain, and I agree. Whatever it is should be enjoyable and comfortable. And so that means for uh something like in one of these analog tools, I think the reason why sketchbooks and mole skins and whatever have continued to have such a place in the heart of creative people like me and many others is that they’re just enjoyable. You grip a nice pen and the feeling that tactile feeling of your, your hand. Moving across the page, I think whiteboards, the whiteboard can have a similar feeling as well. And with digital tools you need, you need the same thing. If it’s fun and enjoyable to open a new notion page and assign it an emoji and drag in some media and type out your text and then share it with a colleague for discussion, then you’re going to want to do it. And then that in turn is a nice virtuous cycle. 00:15:27 - Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is a podcast about tools for thought, and I think it’s appropriate to, you know, keep it scoped, but I would say the human creative process is so much bigger than tools, things like uh the social element, you know, who you’re talking to and who you’re motivated by, uh, the physicality element, the position of your body, how it’s moving or not, the location element like we’re talking about in Intro. These are all super important and I think it’s easy for us as technologists to over rotate towards what’s on the rectangular screen when there’s so much more to the creative process. And again, it’s something we’ve tried to tap into with Muse so that for example, you can use it while you’re reclining on your comfy couch or you can use both your hands at the same time and use all the degrees of freedom you have in your arms, things like that. 00:16:04 - Speaker 2: Absolutely. Related to that, one thing I wanted to ask you about. is whether you’ve read this book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Yep, classic. Yeah, I found myself thinking about that in this tools of thought context. So just to briefly summarize for for those that are not familiar, the author basically categorizes our ways of thinking in daily life in these two creatively named System One and System 2 brains. Where system one is more the, the fast thinking, the, the quick judgment, the, the immediate reaction, and the system two brain is slower, more analytical. I especially like the system one brain’s main, the framing of the system one brain’s main job is this assessing normality, they call it, that is to say we have these built-in habits and assumptions about the world’s worldview and this. Just this way that we expect things to be, everything from how my furniture is arranged in my home to what the political landscape is like in my nation. Our system one brains are constantly taking stock of whether what they’re seeing fits into that established pattern and essentially kind of raises a flag or raises. Something into our attention when something breaks that pattern. So that system one fast instinctive emotional brain, I think is pretty natural to reach for in certainly in social settings, but especially in information age, style, um, online gathering places, the social media and so on, whereas the system too. is obviously what we’re most interested in in our team and with the tool thought that we’re building, which is the slower, more deliberate, more logical, analytical, slower both in a literal time sense, but also in a sense of more consideration and purposely breaking the habits that are already in your mind. And trying to form new connections. 00:17:56 - Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that’s true, but I also think there’s value in domesticating if you will, the system one mind. It’s so powerful, but it’s also by default very wild and instinctual, but if you know, give it the right care and feeding with uh the, the right intellectual material. That you’re ruminating on to continue the animal meta for here, um, it can be very powerful. And again, I think this is especially true in your sleep, basically, where if you take in the right materials, do the right active reading, and if you give that a few days, you’ll often form interesting new connections and ideas. 00:18:26 - Speaker 2: For me, a go to technique is to literally sleep on it. And in fact, I’ve even brought this up often enough on Teams sometimes that people poke fun at me that my solution to any tough problem is to go to sleep, but I really find that so many breakthrough solutions or new ways of looking at something have occurred to me after that stepping away and particularly the restorative power of, of sleep and what happens to your mind at that time, and that obviously just actually requires Time you can’t if you’re trying to turn around a decision the same day, you can’t, you can’t sleep on it either literally or figuratively and so trying to maybe arrange your creative life or set things up in your work or other places where you want to make good decisions and have good ideas to allow yourself this time. I know on the Muse team we often like to do things in part or each of us I’ve seen. likes to do things in parallel. We may have a few different projects going on at a time that even maybe you switch back and forth between a little bit. Sometimes that can be lack of focus, which is, you know, a bad sign, but in some cases, I find this is a really effective way to work on something for a while, maybe get a little stuck or not be sure what the best path forward is, sort of step away, switch my contacts for a few days or something, and when I come back to it, I’m because in a way this background process has been working on the problem the whole time. 00:19:47 - Speaker 1: Yeah, and then bringing it back to tools for thought. I think it’s important then that the tools not try to draw too straight of a line between ideas and steps. Often I feel like tools are trying to, you know, you get the inputs in, you form the right connections, and then somehow the tool will like lead you to the right answer. I think the process is just inherently much messier than that and you need to let go a little bit and say, The tool is going to help you make this stew and then you’ll sleep on it for a few days and then somewhere else something new will pop out and you might not even be able to see that straight line, right? and it might not be refied in the tool, but you have to trust that that process is going to happen in your sleeping mind. 00:20:19 - Speaker 2: Another area under tools for thought I was curious to get your take on is the role of attention and focus, and I touched on that with the System one brain and how it surfaces things to the to the system 2. In the process of doing deep work and going deep on a problem. We know it’s important to be able to focus on something deeply, but how do you see that as interacting with a tool for thought like news or these others we’ve talked about? 00:20:44 - Speaker 1: Well, now that you mentioned it, my half joking answer is that perhaps the most powerful tool for thought that I have is industrial strength noise canceling headphones, like the type you wear when you’re using a chainsaw. It’s actually very helpful in in slotting out the noise that I have here in the city. 00:20:58 - Speaker 2: On controlling noise in your environment. I think it was one of our very first email updates from use that we linked to a what I think of as a very useful tool in the Creative person’s toolkit, which is a white noise generator. In this case, it was one for the, for the iPhone, but I’ve used a web-based white noise generator that does, you know, rainfall and fireplace crackling and whatever that I can put into a pair of headphones, especially noise canceling headphones. It can be really nice for particularly you’re in a noisy environment like trying to work on a plane or a train or something like that, because absolutely, it takes effort to keep your attention on something and the more that your environment demands your attention, the more you, the less effort you will have to spend on the thing you’re trying to focus on. That’s why I like quiet office, uh, physical. that’s conducive to to doing work. 00:21:46 - Speaker 1: I think if there’s even the possibility that you’ll be distracted or pulled back from your creative thought process, it’s, it’s hard to get into it. I remember this when I was a full-time programmer, even that I had a meeting on my calendar at like 3 p.m. made it hard to do certain programming problems in the beginning of the day. It’s because you knew at some point you were going to be in. and you had to break your train of thought. I think there’s the same dynamic happening if you know that that little red dot could come up or if you could get a notification pop on your screen. So one idea we’ve had with Muse is to really be respectful and giving the creator control over if they’re ever going to have anything interrupt their work and anything else appear on their screen. 00:22:20 - Speaker 2: The reason I brought it up was that I see this as, I guess, coming back to this glorious vision for what computers could do for people. Some decades back and where we are today, attention or really a direct conflict between what you want out of call it consumption technology. So when it comes to your phone and your messaging apps and your social media, precisely what you want is to feel connected. You literally want to be interrupted. That is the feature, the feature of it. You want to feel connected to what’s going on and you know about the breaking news right away. And when there’s some important message from from a thing that’s happened with your team. Or a thing that’s happened in your family that you’re going to find out, be connected to that, be able to turn around and respond immediately. And that’s well and good, but it is just in direct opposition to what you want. If you want to sit down and get a really big chunk of productive work done, or particularly bring your energy and attention to bear on a problem that is maybe just past what you’re currently capable of doing, whether that’s a new thing you’re trying to learn, whether it’s because you’re an academic that’s trying to Develop a fresh idea that’s pushing the boundaries of science, whether it’s you’re a product creator or a startup person and you’re trying to You know, figure out the strategy for your company or something like that. You’ve got, you’ve got to really push yourself and you need every spare, or you need every single cycle of your brain computing power you can get and anything that draws your attention away or demands your attention interferes with that, makes you slightly less able to go after solving that problem. 00:23:53 - Speaker 1: Yeah, totally. I think a related idea on this. The theme of headspace and how you’re feeling is the aesthetics of the tool environment. I think it’s really important that creators have control over the aesthetics of their environment and can change it to their taste. I think if we told an artist that you have to go into this studio, has to be exactly the size, you can only paint the walls this one gray color, you can only use this one paintbrush, you have these, you know, 4 colors you can use. Uh, you can only paint in the style. It’d be like, what are you talking about? We do that all the time with software. Your environment has to look like this and, and by the way, it often looks and it can, it can feel trivial just like to give us users this basic agency over what they’re doing in their environment. But I think it’s really important. One small example from you is we have these setting panels type things and most apps, when you open the settings type panel, you know, it goes in the upper left or it goes in the upper right, and that’s that, and hopefully you’re OK with it if it’s covering some of your content, well, too bad, but we had this idea that even for something as simple as Settings panel, you should be able to put it where you want to put it so that if you have something on the right hand side of your screen that you’re working on, you can put the settings panel left or vice versa. And just giving users basic agency over like over their environment like that I think is really important. 00:25:01 - Speaker 2: Yeah, I think one of our get switch research pieces touched on the desire for creative types to nest, where basically when you walk into the professor’s office, when you walk into the designer’s studio, you tend to see an arrangement that reflects their personality, their certainly the needs of their work. But also as a kind of home, kind of a creative home, and I think that connects not only to the utility of it, OK, I, I tend to use this one tool, physical tool, so therefore it’s sitting in a place that’s easy for me to reach my desk, but also just reflects this feeling of comfort, safety, familiarity, and I think you’re able to do your best work and be, be creative and productive and focus when you feel those things. And it’s much harder to do it an unfamiliar. environment, a sterile environment, one that, um, one that maybe isn’t adapted to your needs in the same way. Going back to Andy’s great article about tools for thought, he has a section there where he talks a bit about sort of the machine learning AI stuff. Now I guess GPT 3 is the new, the new buzzy item, and this is a question I think I’ve run into quite frequently and when I talk about what I’ve worked on, what I’m working on here at Muse, what I’ve done. As well in the research lab, which is to kind of oversimplify the response that often, you know, if I say I’m working on tools for thought and kind of describe what that is, there’s a reaction that’s, well, pretty soon AI is going to be here and do all our thinking for us, so like what’s the point of that? And I don’t have a great answer to that. Uh, I don’t believe that in my heart, but maybe that’s because I’m incentivized not to believe it because I enjoy building tools for people to think and create. So maybe I’m, I have a little bit of a blind eye to it, but have you run into that question? If so, how do you think about the role of, let’s say AI, however you want to define that in tools for thinking and creativity? 00:26:49 - Speaker 1: Well, let’s say first that there are a lot of interesting areas where AI is vastly superior, but people are still really interested in learning. So my favorite examples here are chess and go and other games like that. The computers now are insanely powerful. People still love learning those games because there’s the intellectual challenge and the reward, and I I actually think a really interesting frontier for tools of thought is how do you leverage this amazing AI power to help people learn these games faster in a programmatic way. So I can imagine something in the style of Andy’s mnemonic medium, which is, in his case, it’s using space repetition to help you stay at the frontier of your knowledge, so you’re kind of when you’re on the brink of forgetting or when it’s most important to learn a concept is when it challenges you with a question. Um, I can imagine a similar thing um applied to a domain like a game where instead of having Some linear and predetermined set of lessons or problems, it plays you and says, OK, these are your weaknesses, um, you need to do some exercises in these three areas. I’m going to keep giving them to you until you master them, and then we’ll move on to the next area and that can all be done programmatically because these computers have a much better understanding of the game than we ever will, even experts. 00:27:51 - Speaker 2: Chess actually makes me think of this book I read a little while back by Garry Kasparov. I just looked it up. It’s called Deep Thinking where Machine intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins. And famously, this guy is both the chess, one of the world famous sort of um what’s the word for it, chess grandmaster or whatever, the the highest ranked chess player in the world for, for a period of time. But he was the one who was first, the first time that the best human at chess in the world at the time was beaten by a computer, and many really heralded that it was this huge, certainly PR win for the people that were building these AI algorithms, but for a lot of people that it really heralded the beginning of call robots taking our job or the AI is going to be here or or what have you. And he gets, it’s, it’s so interesting because on one hand, he just reflects on the experience of that just being so, I’m not sure what the word is for the, the, the, he walks through the experience of grappling with this alien intelligence or this thing that plays the game in a way that is so different from any how any human would. Then he goes on to talk about how the game has changed in the years since, which is now it’s just taken for granted that chess computers are better than human players period. But it didn’t necessarily lead to A generalized artificial intelligence for now you just, it’s computers can be extremely good at playing chess and that doesn’t really seem to lead to something beyond that. You know, you can obviously go from there to, OK, now they can play go and they can play StarCraft. Maybe that does eventually lead to something general purpose. But the, but the point you mentioned that made me think of the book was he talked about how the game has changed in the form that really what it comes down to is humans and computers collaborate. To play their best game. They analyze, for example, the games of the players that they’re going to go up against. So even if you’re not using a computer at the time of playing the game, your game has changed substantially because you have this computer, I don’t know what it is, assistant helping you in the, the training, the analysis, the pre-game, the postgame, um, and so in fact, we’re seeing that it’s not really that chess AI replaces human chess playing, it’s more that it’s, it’s just morph. 00:29:57 - Speaker 1: The whole mor the whole sport, right, and I think that points to the, the general future here. It’s, it’s not AIs taking over all our jobs and our work it’s more of a symbiosis and collaboration. Perhaps the most obvious version of this is, uh, the AI is very good at generating a bunch of plausible possibilities, especially one like GPT 3, you know, just spits out a bunch of texts and maybe 90% of them are no better than plausible, like you read them closely, don’t really make sense, but 1 out of 10, the human can say, ah, that’s actually quite interesting. I’m going to pluck. That one for my business email or what have you. Um, so I think we’ll see a whole wave of tools like that, but otherwise I’ll believe that the takeover of AI when I see productivity statistics, which of course we haven’t for some decades. 00:30:33 - Speaker 2: Yeah, I think on the creative tools in tandem or in symbiosis with a human generative design, I think is one area that’s got some, some buzz on that, and that’s the basic idea that you can feed a computer algorithm or or an AI of some kind. A set of constraints for a problem you have, you know, you’re designing a building and you want it to be this, hold this many people and have these kinds of structural qualities and have these kinds of aesthetics qualities. And it essentially generates you a bunch of options and then you can choose between them and kind of winnow winnow down this kind of assistive tools often that has to do with more the called the brute force, the ability to generate lots of options and lots of weird options potentially. Uh, actually, one place that um I’ve used that thing, not a, not AI but just an algorithm is in naming several different companies, including Hiroku and Inc and Switch. I basically wrote little programs that took some of our raw input that we brainstormed. And combine them together in every feasible way. In the case of Inc and Switch, we knew we wanted two words separated by an ampersand. We came up with every word for each slot A and slot B that we wanted, and I just wrote a program that spit out every single possible combination, and we could go through them and look for what we liked best. That that that’s pretty far from generative design, I suppose. But, but it fits into this general assistive tools thing. And certainly one thing I, I hear from folks a lot when they talk about this is, OK, we, we’ve come to accept autocorrect in our writing. 00:31:58 - Speaker 1: Uh, what’s the autocorrect for though I feel like autocrack is getting worse. It’s just like it’s going rogue. It says underlining random words now. 00:32:04 - Speaker 2: I actually did an experiment some, I, I got it irritated enough with autocorrect in terms of it’s great when it works, but when it doesn’t, it’s way more effort to go back and correct or, yeah, it’s way more, more effort to get what you want. I did an experiment for a little while of just turning off autocorrect on my phone. Actually, you know what, I think I was about as fast. I was like slower overall, uh, or slower on individual words that autocorrect would have gotten, but if you took away the correcting for mistakes, uh, thing that I so often had to do it, I think it came out as kind of a net wash, and then also not being there was definitely an emotional win to not being frustrated with the thing, uh, auto correcting a person’s name or whatever for the 10th time. 00:32:46 - Speaker 1: Another potential angle on AI and tools for thought is via social networks. As much as I like tools and and software, it’s probably the case that the most powerful technologies, if we will, that we have for thought are the social networks and the institutions that we participate in. The thoughts that we have are so influenced by our friends, our colleagues who are talking to what we’re seeing, and of course, we’re seeing a lot of that happening via social networks these days, and there’s a lot of ways you can say that’s bad or troublesome, and there’s certainly some work to do, but just something like YouTube or Twitter, being able to help you find people in your area of interest. To talk to and learn from is, is very powerful and I think there’s actually a lot more we could do in that space that is using AI to build robust social networks and in turn helps you have better thoughts. 00:33:30 - Speaker 2: Yeah, that also connects back to the creative fodder idea, as we’ve said many times before, ideas don’t come from nowhere. They’re they’re brickage of other ideas. Where does that come from? Well, exposing yourself to as many different ideas as you can through as many sources as you can. Something like Twitter, for example, is just a really amazing place to do that. YouTube as well can be. Now, I think it’s hard or even impossible to have your own ideas or have original ideas if you’re constantly plugged in. Same thing is true at a like a work or a team level, your company’s slack, your whatever other formats you have for connecting with your colleagues, it’s really powerful to be connected to that group mind. And be influenced to bombarded by and influenced by all the ideas and opinions. But in the end, if you want to have an original thought, I think you need to disconnect from that a little bit. But to completely disconnect, you’ll just won’t have that fodder. But if you’re plugged in all the time, you’ll just never have an original thought because you’re just being pushed to and fro by everyone else’s ideas. And so there’s some pendulum swing of connection to isolation, where you can connect for a while, get all that fodder, disconnect a little bit, go a little deeper on your own ideas, come back and reconnect. So thinking about the future, we’ve already seen some exciting movement in tools for thought, making it into production or commercial environments with things like notion, Rome, Sigma, as well as great research work like Andy’s work on mnemonic devices, or something like Aki, the space repetition. Uh, system that’s, it’s kind of related to that. What do you think the future holds, particularly given the, the public goods problem you mentioned earlier of how this stuff gets funded? Are we gonna enter a renaissance where we can maybe finally reach the beautiful vision that these folks from the 60s and 70s, 80s outlined? Do you think there’s a new direction where things will go? Uh, is it going to continue to be hard to get tools of thought? Built in today’s world. 00:35:27 - Speaker 1: The economics problem is going to remain hard but not insurmountable, which I mean these things are inherently somewhat of a public good. It’s hard to fund them slash capture the value when you make great tools and I think that’s going to be the case for the foreseeable future given the social technology that we have. But that said, I feel like it’s still very doable to make a lot of progress in these areas and it just takes a bit of, of will and vision and perhaps The the willingness to forego maximum economic return for yourself personally, but I feel like even small teams with today’s technology can make a lot of progress and I think we’re seeing that. And then I think in the substance of the tools, I think first of all, we’re going to continue to see certain trends keep playing out. So one is this trend of uh mixed media and multimedia in the same tool. I think that’s very important, I think with tools like Notion and Sigma and Rome, people are becoming more and more accustom. that and that’s going to be baked in and we’re going to be less tolerant of tools that are strictly for one medium. I think another trend that we’re continuing to see is the improved aesthetics slash the consumerization of industrial strength thinking tools, which again I think is great. 00:36:26 - Speaker 2: Needs to be fun, fast, a little playful. You could argue that Moleskin, which is a, you know, just a sketchbook company, but I definitely count them as a tool for thought. They’re more expensive than but no better in a practical sense than a GP paper notebook, but people like how they feel, they like how they look, and that aesthetic element makes a difference for, I think you. Your ability to do good creative work. 00:36:51 - Speaker 1: Yeah, and one other existing trend that I see continuing and accelerating is leaning on video slash video games. These are mediums that were hard to use or hard to produce content for even 5 or 10 years ago, and now the technology is such that basically anyone can make really high quality content in these areas and so we’re seeing more more and more of that, YouTube being the predominant example, but I think video and Slash the video game model will be integrated more into Tools for Thought. And then looking forward, OK, I think there’s a fairly obvious bet about AI that we talked about. I think that one’s been played out a fair amount on Twitter and so on. So I won’t go into that too much here. But if I had to pick one less obvious trend to bet on, it would be, but if I had to pick one new trend to bet on, it would be leveraging software to enhance these traditionally non-toolly aspects of the creative process. So, the social side, the physicality side, things like that. I think those are kind of two pretty different worlds historically, um, but I see more tools, uh, bridging that gap and leveraging the importance of those spaces for your creative process. 00:37:51 - Speaker 2: Yeah, very interesting. What are some examples of products or companies or um tools that you’ve seen that tap into this community and people’s side of things. 00:38:00 - Speaker 1: So it’s often the case that gaming industry was the leader here. So there are now these incredibly sophisticated communities around individual video games where people follow creators who they’re really interested in, and it started as just kind of watch someone playing the video game, then they become these, these social environments where there’s a kind of community around it, and then it becomes a way to learn how to play the game. Like there’s a bunch of tutorials and lessons and you learn from other people in the community and you watch each other play and stuff. Like that, and that’s all mediated by technology, um, because it’s, it’s otherwise very hard for these people to find their community because there might be 1000 people in the world who are really into this niche video game and who are playing at a high level with the right tools and platforms between like Twitch, YouTube, and the game itself, for example, and Discord, you can, you can form a community. 00:38:44 - Speaker 2: And I’ll note that that includes not just playing games. But also like speed running or something like that, but also includes creating the games. Many indie game developers stream themselves, program the game designing game on Twitch. People jump in and watch that and learn from them. And there’s also, yeah, huge YouTube communities and channels and things around just generally learning to program and learning all kinds of technical skills. Certainly I’ve learned things about video editing and things like that. Through, through YouTube. So this kind of watch a creator or producer use some sophisticated piece of software to do some, do their creative process, maybe thinking out loud as they do. That’s a really powerful way to share tacit knowledge about how people do what they do. 00:39:29 - Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I think it’s like you’re saying, it’s trickling down from games into more like professional environments or tradecraft environments, things like you said, Photo editing, video editing, or things like woodworking, there are now sophisticated communities around that and online tools we can learn. But then I think bringing it back to tools for thought, we’re starting to see these, these communities and tools form around more like intellectual topics and ideas. So there’s, there’s a bit of a progress studies community developing, for example, now we have podcasts and classes and Twitter. Cohorts and some slacks and some discords and those feel pretty early, but it feels like we’re bringing some of those patterns and sensibilities from the gaming world and into these more intellectual domains. 00:40:12 - Speaker 2: Well, that comes back to that I think when we say tools for thought, sometimes you talk about maybe for example methodologies, how to work things like getting things done or inbox zero or building a second brain or something like that. Um, so you’ve got communities, you’ve got Software that you run, you’ve got analog tools, you’ve got uh techniques and methodologies. So really this is, I guess, a lot, a lot broader than just as you said earlier, what goes in the rectangle. 00:40:40 - Speaker 1: And also I think technology is going to infuse all these other areas and we’re going to have a sort of Technologies for thought, if you will, um, both software per se, but also communities, networks, methodologies, habits, institutions, Twitter threads, and so on, all working together to help people develop better ideas. 00:40:59 - Speaker 2: Well, that makes me pretty excited for the future of being a thinker and a creative person. 00:41:04 - Speaker 1: Well, with that, I think we can wrap it, and if any of our listeners out there have feedback, feel free to reach out to us at @museapphq on Twitter or hello at musesApp.com by email. We love to hear your comments and especially ideas for future episodes. 00:41:18 - Speaker 2: See you later, Mark. 00:41:19 - Speaker 1: See you, Adam.