Book journaling
Book journaling is a practice of documenting your reading experience and reflections in a dedicated notebook or journal. It can include: Reading logs tracking books completed Quotes that resonated Personal reactions to characters and plot Sketches or doodles inspired by the book Ratings and reviews Reading goals and TBR (to be read) lists Emotional responses …
Thought-terminating cliches
From this Guardian article. "the phrase describes a catchy platitude aimed at shutting down or bypassing independent thinking and questioning. I first heard about the tactic while researching a book about the language of cult leaders, but these sayings also pervade our everyday conversations: expressions such as “It is what it is”, “Boys will be boys”, …
Creativity subsumed by capitalist consumption
In this interview, Alex Tier suggests that for many of us, our creativity has been subsumed by capitalist consumption. That is, rather than express ourselves by creating something, we express ourselves through our patterns of consumption. Our identity is constructed by what we buy, how we decorate our houses, what we wear, etc. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0MOuQwqftAMhJhS2sKKqqh?si=5q-utsv8TdqE9LcetIirqA
The futures cone
Science fiction authors and futurists don’t predict the future. They extrapolate based on current conditions and talk about potential futures. A science fiction story will focus on one potential future and explore it in depth, while a futurist might come up with a range of scenarios to discuss. One popular way to represent a range …
Great Law of the Haudenosaunee quotation
The thickness of your skin shall be seven spans — which is to say that you shall be proof against anger, offensive actions and criticism. Your heart shall be filled with peace and good will and your mind filled with a yearning for the welfare of the people of the Confederacy. With endless patience you …
What is STEEP analysis?
A STEEP analysis is a look at how: Social Technological Economic Environmental and Political factors affect a business or organization. These are all external factors and thus not something the business or organization can control. This is also sometimes referred to as a PESTLE analysis, with the additional letter L referring to Legal considerations.
Futures empathy
People tend to focus on the short term due to biases like presentism and availability heuristics (favoring familiar and easily recalled information). Foresight methods, such as Scenario Planning and Future Design, help individuals overcome these biases and think about the future more effectively. Scenario planning is a method for envisioning multiple plausible futures to improve …
Steve Jobs quotation
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they …
Nick Cave quotation
You are right to be worried about your growing feelings of cynicism and you need to take action to protect yourself and those around you. … Cynicism is not a neutral position—and although it asks almost nothing of us, it is highly infectious and unbelievably destructive. In my view, it is the most common and …