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Human beings have what’s called the serial-order effect: The longer we spend thinking about something, the wilder and more unusual our ideas tend to get.
What Can Musical Variations Teach Us About Creativity?
nytimes.com
A question worth asking:
‘What does it mean that the earth is so beautiful? And what shall I do about it? What is the gift that I should bring to the world? What is the life that I should live?’ – from Mary Oliver’s [*Long Life*](https://t.densediscovery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fa%2F80028%2F9780306814129/1/0100018c7ea4f5e0-fd8f228b-9b6e-4063-8bc8-cab819a64530-000000/4eb0XsY5xotzt2mbncPLvNRTT1wlDUi7nj7NQlSHB8s=331).
269 / ’Tis the Season... For Tending to the Inner Garden of the Soul
Dense Discovery
You might date the beginning of this period to the advent of the Sony Walkman in 1979. With the Walkman we can see a subtle but fundamental shift in the ideology of convenience. If the first convenience revolution promised to make life and work easier for you, the second promised to make it easier to be you. The new technologies were catalysts of selfhood. They conferred efficiency on self-expression.
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