We did the thing. Now live on Substack. 🤜🤛 .I’m on a quest to build the spatial intelligence tools and experiences for us to survive and thrive in our ever changing world. I’m changing my objective function to learn/build/create in public, and

RT @NTFabiano: The brain is a galaxy of information. This is only a cubic millimeter.

RT @TrungTPhan: the vast advances in lithium-ion batteries has now given us…an underwater jet pack that can go 3 meters/second with 40-minu….

Putting those fencing skills to good use again… 😂

Fire dancing — Katana Wielding — Reading Society Marathoning .(all in one weekend) . Found my people @AGIHouseSF . HBD @JvNixon .Thanks for the instruction @WillBrownAI

I was honored to speak at the Node Institute.TouchDesigner Roundtable XXIX at Manifest:io at Alte Münze in Berlin this weekend via @YouTube.On how I’ve built my artist and business career around the desire to improve humanity through immersive technology,

My #techno remix of ORBITAL XVI by Senaida is now live! . …the soundtrack to your action thriller chase scene… . 👇Give ‘er a listen⚡️.

Designing Dream Worlds w/ @BlockadeLabs

20. This created global and local feedback loops that simultaneously led to waves of growth, technological advancement and relative stability but at great global, environmental, and inner and interpersonal cost. See the Medium article for the full thesis. ✨🖖.

19. In the times after WWII, newly globalized and outsourced means of production and advancements in materials manufacturing and American Hollywood and New York Advertising propaganda machines globally disseminated new visions and dreams of wealth and glamorized consumerism.

18.5. (*I’m focusing in the United States for the purposes of this discussion, both as a citizen, myself, and as someone considering the role of the United States in the macro-narrative of the past century and its possible roles in #futurehistory).

18. Returning to the fundamental patterns that “got us here” — there was a several decade-long economic upswing in the US after WWII*.

17. we're witnessing a similar collapse / transition between the old systems of the past century’s foundation, and the need for a rapid reexamination and implementation of systems that bridge our current systems into ones that address our current (and, ideally, our future) needs.

16. — not unlike the collapse of the Roman Empire explained by many academics and authors like Will (and Ariel) Durant, @HoweGeneration and William Strauss, @harari_yuval, @balajis, @naval, @RayDalio, and others,.

15. The answer is patterns — Metahistorical and Macroeconomic patterns.

14. “…history doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes…”*. *attrib. disputed: Mark Twain (and/or others).

13. How could the same circumstances on the one hand give rise to so much wonder, joy, and novel experiences, and on the other — hypercompetitiveness, complacency and moral bankruptcy?.

12. However, my earliest and ongoing experience of cognitive dissonance was/is that the world is both beautiful and broken.