I’m convinced that beneath the ugly manifestations of our present evils—political corruption, ecological devastation, warring against one another everywhere, hating each other based on race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation—the greatest dis-ease facing humanity right now is our profound and painful sense ofdisconnection. We feel disconnected from God, certainly, but also from ourselves (our bodies), from each other, and from our world.
.. Trinity represents the overcoming of the foundational philosophical problem called “the One and the Many.” How things are both utterly connected and yet distinct is invariably the question of the serious seeker.
.. With the endless diversity in creation, it is clear that God is notobsessed with uniformity. God does not desire uniformity, but unity.
.. Trinity is all about relationship and connection. We know the Trinity through experiencing the flow itself, which dissolves our sense of disconnection.
.. Trinity was made to order to undercut all dualistic thinking. Yet Christianity shelved the idea for all practical purposes, because our dualistic theologies could not process it. [1]
.. God is not a being among other beings, but rather the Ground of Being itselfwhich then flows through all beings. As Paul says to the intellectuals in Athens, this God “is not far from us, but is the one in whom we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:27-28).
Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle
Bio: Bret Victor invents tools that enable people to understand and create. He has designed experimental UI concepts at Apple, interactive data graphics for Al Gore, and musical instruments at Alesis.
For more on Bret, see worrydream.com.
Larry Tesler invented cut/copy/paste by eliminating modes.
He recognized a wrong that had been ignored by the culture.
a16z Podcast: Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
3 forms of connectivity:
- transportation
- energy: 2 million km pipelines
- communications: 1 million km fiber on ocean floor
We think that states are the organizing unit, but we are moving:
- from nations and borders to flow and friction
- things become organized by connectivity
The more pipelines you build between Russia and Europe, the more resistance to turning off the routes
In the gig economy, your connectivity will affect your prosperity.
People’s loyalty is more to their employer because their employer gives them greater access to places where their citizenship would otherwise not.
A Nation of Healers
There’s some movement arising that is suspicious of consumerism but is not socialist. It’s suspicious of impersonal state systems but is not libertarian. It believes in the small moments of connection.