“If you keep yourself topped off with ideas all the time, you never become open enough to get the sustenance you require in order to move on. You end up just recycling what is already in the zeitgeist.”
(via Robert Rowland Smith on Ideas – RSA)
A long Swedish interview with me, mainly about Toca Boca. In the newspaper where I got my first job, almost 20 years ago now.
(via Han skapar lek-appar för miljoner – Ekonomi – Göteborgs-Posten)
In fact, it’s almost anti-discussed due to the obsession in media and political circles with the alleged rise of the robots. We’re so busy worrying about how to counteract an imaginary, robot-driven productivity surge that we’re barely paying attention to the real story of the productivity slowdown.
“Financial independence isn’t so much about freedom from work. It is more about freedom to do your best work, without money getting in the way.”
I retired at 30. The best part isn’t leisure — it’s freedom. – Vox
“Unlike many children’s television shows which “are saying, ‘Come on, join in, kids, sing along,’ which I think is patronising”, Stampy talks directly to the audience. “It’s like speaking to a person, I guess.”
Afrobeat coming strong now. Absolutely loved the original, and here’s a new great version with Drake and Skepta.
Madeline Levine, psychologist and author of The Price of Privilege, says that there are three ways we might be overparenting and unwittingly causing psychological harm:
When we do for our kids what they can already do for themselves;
When we do for our kids what they can almost do for themselves; and
When our parenting behavior is motivated by our own egos.
Levine said that when we parent this way we deprive our kids of the opportunity to be creative, to problem solve, to develop coping skills, to build resilience, to figure out what makes them happy, to figure out who they are. In short, it deprives them of the chance to be, well, human.
“Standing upright it is quickly transformed into a slide, a puppet theatre or a cave, whiled the upholstery inside has a sound-absorbing effect. The non-figural form invites children from different ages to transform and use Dyyni in their way”
The stakes for play are higher than we think. Play is a way of being that resists the instrumental, expedient mode of existence. In play, we do not measure ourselves in terms of tangible productivity (extrinsic value), but instead, our physical and mental lives have intrinsic value of their own. It provides the source from which other extrinsic goods flow and eventually return.
Imagine two 4-year-olds trying to play a simple game of catch. They can’t do it. Neither can throw the ball straight enough or catch well enough to make the game work. But a 4-year-old and a 9-year-old can play catch and enjoy it. The 9-year-old can lob the ball gently into the hands of the 4-year-old and can leap and dive to catch the other’s wild throw. In a world of just 4-year-olds catch is impossible, but in an age-mixed world everyone can learn and enjoy this game.
