A warm welcome to Glyphs & Graphs friend. These are my words, but feel free to wade into them.
glyphs & graphs
by naveen srivatsav
by naveen srivatsav
A warm welcome to Glyphs & Graphs friend. These are my words, but feel free to wade into them.
imagine processes as systematic forces bringing about change beyond/beneath individual human scales of comprehension. processes are not descriptors that are associated with the object being observed, they are the system itself. the name of the system is merely a tag for discovering all relevant processes.
as the shadow of summer aches on
we sing delirious in our bare garden
let the love of beauty mean there is yet light
The Future We Choose is written by Christiana Figueres (a personal hero who architected the foundations for the unprecedented Paris Agreement), and Tom Rivett-Carnac (founding partner at Global Optimism). The book calls for a wide-eyed far-sighted and big-hearted response to the climate crisis, wherein we confront the scale of the challenge not with denial or fatalism, but rather with uncommon resolve and creative imagination.
I’m just going to come out and say it - I unabashedly love this 2003 rendition of Peter Pan to bits. Everything from the casting and score, to the screenplay and special effects, comes together in a beautiful self-contained bundle of movie magic. Not a single frame or word is wasted, and yet is bursting at the seams with world-building and the hyper-detail of children’s imaginations. This adoration in itself was enough incentive to write this review, but my most recent viewing made me privy to entire layers of interpretation that I must’ve missed before. So let’s get into it!
I've been binge-watching Curb Your Enthusiasm, which I think is really funny. But when my wife asked me where the humour was, I couldn't really give her a clear answer. So in this essay, I'd like to explore that for a bit.
I assert that WW1984 is trying to tell an interesting postmodern fable: namely that the wisdom required to know oneself deeply, and the discipline to face the truth and the courage to follow through with the consequences, are all elements of the heroic path.
The sole task of the truth seeker is thus to learn to recognise truth when they see it, and not be deceived by prettier illusions. The truth is and will always remain a pathless land.
Yet another Netflix viral sensation has landed - I'm talking about the Korean psychological-thriller series Squid Game. With funding and creative freedom from Netflix, Squid Game pushes the boundaries of the “Battle Royale” genre, with a steady-handed maturity at handling its core themes even if it doesn’t surprise its viewers with sheer novelty.
I just had the pleasure of re-watching The Revenant, almost 5 years since its initial release. All those memories and impressions came flooding right back. A friend of mine once said that it wasn’t necessary to try hard at all to remember sublime poetry by heart even years after reading them, because the lines have been crafted to such perfection that it becomes impossible to imagine the thought-forms they embody in any other way, at least none quite so elegant.
I was pleasantly surprised at how good Sleeping Dogs really is. The quickest way to describe Sleeping Dogs is to say it’s a lot like Grand Theft Auto but set in Hong Kong, with a story about an undercover cop embedded in the local mafia. This description would be good enough for most gamers to figure out what to expect from the gameplay. But I think the comparison to Grand Theft Auto really is a disservice to Sleeping Dogs because United Front Studios has produced a game that is in many ways narratively superior to Grand Theft Auto.
I wrote the following response to a email from a VC friend in 2016, about an idea involving special limited edition digital e-books that could be sold at a significant premium on a blockchain. In some sense, this is directly comparable to the recent buzz about NFTs in the art world. Have a read!
Put together a few of my pieces in a “chronology” of sorts to visually impart the various stages of a psychedelic trip. YMMV :P
The Outer Worlds by Obsidian Entertainment brings back the best elements of the genre of deep immersive role-playing games (RPGs), and then goes a bit further. Let's be honest, The Outer Worlds is better marketed as an interactive novel - very much in the same vein of Choose Your Own Adventure books from decades past. That said, I personally love and heartily recommend this immersive dieselpunk sim. Try it, you won't be disappointed.
Lately I've been feeling this overwhelming sense of obviousness, for lack of a better word, accompanied by a complete lack of surprise. I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing...
An interesting question that comes up in the Climate Reality training I’m currently doing, in essence asking “what is your personal story that is at the core of your environmentalism?”. I found the question to be refreshing and evocative. The following is my answer.