in their best moments, American cities offered the chance to slip the bonds of prejudices, second-guessing and limited horizons. They offered opportunity.
Then, cities worked. Now, they don't.
Jon Bell worked on Twitter's Abuse team as the lead designer in 2016, and is haunted by his team's inability to take the threat seriously and make significant progress towards addressing it.
This video by Stephen Downes looks at change and technology during the pandemic and after, asking what it is we want to get from our educational systems, and what that might look like in the future. Lecture, Apr 28, 2020.
"'When someone seeks,' said Siddhartha, 'then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing. [...] Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.' " Hermann Hesse"