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Transilience is a fundamental human capacity
Ideas & Essays
No framework worth its weight is ever finished. Every framework has an interior that is settled and an exterior still being mapped. The settled parts hold weight — they’ve been tested against enough lives to be load-bearing. The edge is where we work before that testing has happened. Observations that may shift what the framework can reach. Patterns I’m noticing as the framework meets the world. Thinking that isn’t yet finished, published in the state it’s actually in.
The hope is that we keep building until the next leap, the next paradigm shift arrives. The moment when Transilience itself is surpassed, and this framework takes its place in the archive of what helped us reach the next place. The settled work lives at the Kitchen Table and discussion of its foundations in the Glossary. The Essays are where the framework breathes and the edges are explored.
Chronos Capture
When the Clock Is the Only Instrument We have built tools of extraordinary precision, and pointed them at human life with an instrument that can read only one of its dimensions. The trouble is not that the tools are evil. The trouble is that they are imprecise, in a...
At the Edge
Musings From the Edge Wherever you find yourself at the edge of something — a system, a boundary, a difference that won't close — the water gets complicated. That is not a problem with the place. That is the place telling you the truth. There is a thing mathematicians...
40 Years-One Sentence
Forty Years to a Sentence Notes from the Edge "So what are we getting done today?" I didn't quite know how to tell the person at the hair salon what it is that I want. Because it's a feel, a look. A sense. Not a "style." And then we catch up on what is happening in...