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Is San Francisco “back”? I audited its parties to find out
Reading Time: 7 minutes I lately had the luck to return to San Francisco for the first time since the pandemic, and I was very keen to discover whether the place was “back”. There had much been much talk on tech Twitter in the intervening period on the collapse of San Francisco (and by extension)…
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Applying SpaceX’s production process to the development of memorable experiences
Reading Time: 7 minutes I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t had time to do a write up of our first prototype of Karl-Heinz StockHausen’s Kugealauditorium, a project I described in a previous post. Anyhow- better late than never, so here’s an update on KA2. Recap of the project For Kugelauditorium, our plan is…
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Which is more memorable, a Bitcoin or a Spherical Concert Hall?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Bitcoin is undoubtedly a magnificent crypto-asset, but how does it stack up to peak experiences in lived life, in its overall value? Does the moral choice to enjoy possession of bitcoin survive consideration of the alternative possibility of creating a spherical concert hall, for example? Though I’m very long on bitcoin…
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Taking Burning Man Online with the Sparkleverse.
Reading Time: 13 minutes Burning Man is Going Online To many of those who co-create it every year, Burning Man isn’t just the best party in the world, it’s the best place in the world. For the sole purpose of the experience of doing so, seventy thousand people engage in the pleasurable inconvenience of conjuring an…
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Memorable dreams
Reading Time: 2 minutes It isn’t just because our dreams are more interesting than our actual lives that they’re so worth remembering. There’s a further advantage: detailed dream-memory fosters the understanding that can enable us to recognize our dreams as they occur. If we can do that, then we can have the pleasure of taking…