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(As Pepper Potts’s head of security in Iron Man Three enthuses: ‘The “human” part of “human resources” is our biggest vulnerability. We need to start phasing it out immediately.’)
Who Touched Base in My Thought Shower?
Steven Poole
“Rewilding”.
The metaphor suggests precisely what to do: If you want to have wilder, curiouser thoughts, you have to avoid the industrial monocropping of big-tech feeds. You want an intellectual *forest,* overgrown with mushrooms and towering weeds and a massive dead log where a family of raccoons has taken up residence.
Rewilding Your Attention
Clive Thompson
Curiosity: “I wonder what would happen if …”
Imagination: “Gee, wouldn’t it be cool if … ?”
Drive: “I will not accept ‘no.’ There has got to be a better way!”
Hacking Work
Bill Jensen and Josh Klein
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