I thought I would write a quick summary of the situation following the huge earthquake in Touhoku, as I understand it, possibly with more updates to follow. 1. I am fine, and there is no immediate danger to me personally. When the quake occurred, I was in Sapporo, and I came back to Tokyo on [...]
Monomorphic
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Rasmus Fleischer’s postdigital manifesto
In his highly timely and readable 2009 book “The Postdigital Manifesto”, Swedish writer and historian Rasmus Fleischer discusses the effects of the digital on our relation to music and sets out his vision for how we can make music listening more meaningful. Fleischer is a prolific blogger (almost exclusively in Swedish) at Copyriot, and is [...]
The absurdity of flying
The first time I found myself onboard an airplane was when I was 9-10 years old or so. At the time, travelling by myself to visit my aunt who lived on a remote island was a big experience. In particular, I think, the sensation that the environment was managed in the extreme made a big [...]
Deletion
A characteristic of a naive approach to the digital world is the tendency to record and store everything. JustBecauseWeCan. Every photo, every e-mail, every song, every web site ever visited, every acquaintance who ever added you as a friend on some social network, every message you ever received. Somebody, probably an author, termed this the [...]
A problem solving method
Here’s a general method for synthesising solutions to complex problems, intended for use by people. 1. Enumerate the constraints 2. Find an initial solution that feels right but doesn’t quite work, based on previous knowledge of the domain 3. Use the information contained in the constraints to adjust the solution, so that it works 4. [...]
