Thoughts of a TechnoWizard

Just some quick updates. Got accepted into the Black Designers Ignite talk! Also will be working on a medtech XR startup. And a friendly reminder about the terribleness of car centric suburbia...

Today's episode is very... ruminative,... exploratory, and inconclusive. I try to work through my feelings and worries and struggles. I try to figure what makes games so fun and life so... not. How do we make life feel more like the enjoyable game we know it can be? I think there are a number of elements to figure out... Part of this was inspired by this video: https://youtu.be/dE1DuBesGYM

This morning, I read this amazing article https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/brains-might-sync-as-people-interact-and-that-could-upend-consciousness from this great research https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2020/1/niaa010/5856030 I also share my thoughts on how to build more fractal communities. Finally, I talk about Hal Elrod's Achieve Your Goals podcast, where he talks about the importance of aligning with your mission to accomplish more goals.

Not Just Bikes made some great videos about some research the Strong Towns nonprofit organization found about car-centric cities. They showed how absolutely terrible, unhealthy, inefficient, ugly, unAmerican, financially wasteful, and all around stupid it is to build cities around cars instead of people. Check it out here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa

I share what I learned about Emotion Wheels and emotional maturity. I also go deep(er than expected) into my problems with Jordan Peterson. In short, I think his ideas on IQ and power structures are inherently biased, limited, and myopic.

Forgot to post yesterday's episode!! I talk about how much I connected with Lex Fridman's Dream, my Black Ignite application, and updates on my project

I go into a tirade about the crazy, paternalistic things nonprofits have to go through, the issues of social media sites created by people who don't understand how social spaces work, as well as the crucial need for a principles and educated approach to designing technology or other services. You can find the research I was talking about here: https://newpublic.org/study/1358/the-signals-in-the-pandemic

I published my first newsletter!! elijahclaude.substack.com I also talk about the Urban Doctor's videos on why lawns are wasted green space and the problem with American urban planning. https://youtu.be/WbdNH8fBtdM

Today I dive into some ideas around subjectivity vs objectivity; why the mind abhors a vacuum and thus why people cling to bad ideas; as well as the nature of consciousness and free will.

Yesterday, I finished my research class (but I'm still gonna go back and look at all the materials!); talked with my friend about playing the game of the workplace; and played Settlers of Catan with my brother.