Patterns noticed after reading a lot of books. Once noticed, we can design, prepare, our interaction with the book object.
Aesthetes in the Workforce
Aesthetes are different than "creatives". Creatives is a term that tends to encompass any aloof fool who has a passion for something other than the thing at hand – drawing, painting, stacking toothpicks, staring at walls. I'm talking about aesthetes; people, both aloof and disciplined, who can view the world through interchangeable lenses of beauty.
Movement: A Letter to Professor
And so on...
Kurt Vonnegut will use “And so on…” Each time he uses it, it’s acknowledging that his rambling can go on forever, and would, but instead he cuts the list short. It’s like a cognitive behavioral therapist technique: to acknowledge the infinite is present without having to descend into it. The statement is a vocal way to play with the tyranny of Romanticism.
The United States’ Bi-Party Classifier
The bi-party system is a classification problem. Parties are formed representing some set of beliefs and categorizes people of a population. (People must identify as one or another.)
There are two parties trying to represent 300 million people. This is like having an image classifier set to a donkey and an elephant and the given picture of a mouse gets identified as an elephant and the Siberian husky gets classified as a donkey. This is clearly wrong and the classifier needs to be updated.
Game Theory: Dissecting Human Behavior
Instead of fun love stories like who falls in love with who and how it takes a village to raise a child, economics is enamored with figuring out which brand of bread a character will purchase and at what price point, before switching to a similar product.
Game Theory is an excellent arm of Economics which creates models for assessing human behavior using Objects and personalities to depict dynamics and games.
The Polarizing Bunny
Look at the picture. It is not either rabbit or duck. It’s both rabbit and duck. The teacher showing this to students for the first time welcomes a little debate, and plays a role to enlighten whoever said duck, to see the rabbit as well. And for those who saw the rabbit, the teacher points out how to see the duck.
As this is the case with the duck and the rabbit, so is the case with other points of view: Tomayto-tomahto, Capitalism-Socialism, glass half full-glass half empty. While people develop their ideas and may hold two different beliefs, there still exists the underlying picture from which they emerged.
Human Life as Moral Standard
With technology, we can now witness the effects of human behavior on a large scale, such as linking one person starting a car to climate change. While one person's action is meaningless, with technology, we can see that 7 billion people starting cars can have a meaningful impact. Previously, this factor was unnecessary for human survival and was absent in decision making. We were pressed more urgently to feed ourselves and rid ourselves of diseases. With those issues relatively eased, and the advancement of technology, a person's choice of action can now include this information in making their decisions.