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Blog Name: Swart Donkey
Url: http://www.swartdonkey.blogspot.com
Language: English
Topics: Philosophy, Creativity, Ideas
Description: Just some of my thoughts on various things
Popularity: 10 Followers

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Confabulation
Confabulation is a great word. I think I came across it in Daniel Gilbert's book 'Stumbling on Happiness', but the wikipedia definition isn't quite as I understood it. Similar but not the same.Wiki...more
Grand Plans
I am convinced by most of what Virginia Postrel says in her book. Mostly, it is about the inability of any individual to come up with an all seeing plan that can capture the difficult to articulate...more
The Power of Play
The chapter 'Fields of Play' in Postrel's book looks at a subject familiar to many motivational talks which reposition work as play. That is not how she talks about it. She is talking of the import...more
What is natural?
I haven't spent much time on it, but Postrel's website www.dynamist.com looks pretty cool, at least from a design perspective. Will need to read more of her blog posts and see if they get me thinki...more
Say it
Still reading 'The Future and its Enemies', Postrel talks about the difficulty in expressing knowledge. She quotes Alexander Pope:'What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed'She goes on to sa...more

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