Wonderful advice.
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Wonderful advice.
It's also how I naturally build things — playful exploration led by intuition & curiosity, then if a project seems to really click, I begin to survey the space to see if it holds any novel contribution.
Sometimes it's just a new perspective on previously explored ideas, and that's great too. Slightly different mental shapes can help make paths for others.
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Alexander Obenauerreplied to Alexander Obenauer last edited by
As an example, this is exactly what happened with OLLOS. I chatted with a bunch of folks after first building it, and they helped me see the existing landscape its was in.
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Alexander Obenauerreplied to Alexander Obenauer last edited by
Btw, I think this style / approach is misunderstood in circles close to research and science. Artists understand it well, but I often find that folks in science & tech hold an implicit belief that direct reasoning is the way to "real" answers.
Following head & heart, e.g. Feynman's plate spinning, is a great force.
Einstein: "I am enough of the artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
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Matthew Lyonreplied to Alexander Obenauer last edited by
@alexobenauer as someone with an art degree who works in technology, often adjacent to science/math types, I could probably write a short book on this topic, holy crap