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2/25/2024
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Wanted: 22 additional Friends 💌
Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Hi there! Even though February is hanging around a little longer this year, with its peculiar 29th day, the month is almost over and so is my yearly Friends drive. (This
2/5/2024
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274 / In search of the adult version of ‘playing freely on the street’
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time. – Leonard Bernstein Featured artist: Fran Labuschagne Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 274! View/share
2/1/2024
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Let’s be Friends? 💌
Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Dear reader, I hope you've been enjoying Dense Discovery. Later this year, I will publish DD's 300th issue – that's six years of weekly dispatches without
1/29/2024
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273 / How our language shapes our thinking
The problem is no longer getting to express oneself but finding moments of solitude and silence in which one might eventually find something worth saying. – Gille Deleuze Featured artist: Taras L.
1/22/2024
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272 / How social connectedness affects life expectancy
Sometimes you don't know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. – Gunnar Freyr Featured artist: Julia Allum Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 272! View/share online → I
12/18/2023
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269 / ’Tis the season... for tending to the inner garden of the soul
Our modern skulls house a stone-age mind. – Leda Cosmides Featured artist: Matt Chinworth Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 269! View/share online → While summer is in full swing here in
12/11/2023
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268 / The waning days of the craft of coding
The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how to behave when we don't know what to do. – John Holt Featured artist: Tania Yakunova Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome
12/4/2023
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267 / The most important metric for creative work: resonance
You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love. – Louise Bourgeois Featured artist: Benoit Drigny Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 267! View/
11/27/2023
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266 / When critical thinking is no longer enough, learn critical ignoring
The path to all great things passes through silence. – Friedrich Nietzsche Featured artist: Peng Kai Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 266! View/share online → Critical thinking – the
11/20/2023
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265 / Sedated by consumerist self-care
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days. – Alain de Botton Featured artist: Anna Broadhurst Dense Discovery Dense Discovery
11/13/2023
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264 / Changing the story from consumer to citizen
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. – CS Lewis Featured artist:
11/7/2023
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263 / To expand your worldview, seek unusual couplings
The creative adult is the child who has survived. – Ursula K. Le Guin Featured artist: Andre Ducci Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 263! View/share online → I'm back from an
10/30/2023
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262 / Technology is a convenience mirage
When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. – Clay Shirky Featured artist: Sandra Rilova Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 262! View/share online → Software
10/23/2023
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261 / A weekend of place-making
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline … but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. – Glenn Gould Featured artist: Tommy
10/19/2023
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260 / So, what are we to make of ‘machine art’?
It's impossible to please everyone. The question is whether you're disappointing the right people. – Adam Grant Featured artist: Judit Zengővári Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to
10/9/2023
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259 / Returning to a safe operating space
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time. – Mary Oliver Featured
10/2/2023
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258 / I’m just a lurker now
We're driving faster and faster into the future, trying to steer by using only the rear-view mirror. – Marshall McLuhan Featured artist: Olga Masevich Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to
9/25/2023
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257 / How much discomfort is the whole world worth?
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. – Eric Hoffer Featured artist: Marcin
9/18/2023
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256 / Healing ourselves to heal the planet
Passion creates, addiction consumes. – Gabor Maté Featured artist: Valentin Galmand Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 256! View/share online → I mentioned in last week's issue that I
9/11/2023
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255 / What if we abandoned land ownership?
Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important.