"After completing a degree in architecture, she began her professional career exploring the intersection of design, technology and cultural research. In the 1990’s, she organized symposia and commissioned public art to encourage discourse about the social implications of emerging technologies, the creative opportunities they afford, and the new forms of cultural expression they might engender."

slowLab > people > carolyn f. strauss

inspiration for Memetica 

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"What happens when we each have the time, space and stability in life to truly focus on ourselves? The answer is the pursuit of self-actualization. With less of our time taken up by basic survival, our need to improve ourselves will move from the back-burner to the front. Maslow’s pyramid will be turned upside down, with time, energy, and resources migrating from the bottom to the top. No longer a luxury just for those with time and money, the market for self-actualization is set to grow across socioeconomic levels, geographic borders and cultural boundaries."

Francis Pedraza: Why Self-Actualization Is the Next Big Market

Agreed on the market for self-actualization growing. Agree that the need is not being met. I also see a lot of entrepreneurs focused now on ‘wisdom’ learning.

 Good article from Francis Pedrazza, founder of Everest, an beautiful app to help you achieve your dreams. 

nevver:

Couple embracing,  Egon Schiele

nevver:

Couple embracing, Egon Schiele

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psych-facts:

Find out which Chapman’s love language you are here -http://neurolove.me/post/49772974208/which-love-language-do-you-speak

psych-facts:

Find out which Chapman’s love language you are here -http://neurolove.me/post/49772974208/which-love-language-do-you-speak

(via towriteluvvhere)

"El clima altera tu ánimo. El sol te hace extrovertido, la lluvia te vuelve ensimismado. El sol te distrae, la lluvia te confronta. El sol se empeña en que no pienses, la lluvia te obliga a pensar."

La lluvia es una cosa que sucede en el pasado | Etiqueta Negra

Bellísimo artículo. Hace tiempo no lloraba frente a un texto. Leer sobre la lluvia y su potencia de estado melancólico, me hizo extrañar la lluvia en español. 

La lluvia en San Francisco es tan impersonal. Es fría y la gente le huye. Es súbita y caprichosa. Es una ráfaga atrabancada, sin ritmo ni cadencia.

  Cuando llovía en México, nos acurrucamos frente a la ventana. Las gotas gordas en la banqueta avisan que ya viene la tormenta. O el chipi que acaricia los cachetes. El olor a pavimento mojado en la infancia. El pasto recién cortado. El silencio de las 5 de la tarde y su luz serena y amarillosa, apacigua y nos calma. 

Team emplify rocking the social invention at #dmba final presentations! A cultural understanding experience to improve our global empathy. So proud of their bold statement!

Team emplify rocking the social invention at #dmba final presentations! A cultural understanding experience to improve our global empathy. So proud of their bold statement!

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Ben Howard - To Be Alone (by benhowardmusic)

Ben Howard - Three Tree Town (by Bestmusicvideo1)

another one… mmmm! 

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annstreetstudio:

Have a beautiful, dreamy day…

Ben Howard - Soldiers (by linksaf)

Im in love with this guy so much! 

Last week of #dmba @annuyd @aaelmaghraby. ‘Embodied work’  (at casa marita)

Last week of #dmba @annuyd @aaelmaghraby. ‘Embodied work’ (at casa marita)

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Coping With Stress - Biofeedback: Self-Mastery Beyond Pills (by UCtelevision)

The psychophysiology behind biofeedback. Really great guy explaining the details about how our minds control the physiology of our bodies. 

Next generation meditation ideas on my mind and body now. 

How to pack to travel the world

How to pack to travel the world, illustration by #wendymcnaughton
Of Nellie Bly, audacious newspaper journalist sent to circumnavigate the globe in 72 days in 1889. Then her total opposite, Elizabeth bizland raced her the other way around:

On the surface the two women … were about as different as could be: one woman a Northerner, the other from the South; one a scrappy, hard-driving crusader, the other priding herself on her gentility; one seeking out the most sensational of news stories, the other preferring novels and poetry and disdaining much newspaper writing as “a wild, crooked, shrieking hodge-podge,” a “caricature of life.” Elizabeth Bisland hosted tea parties; Nellie Bly was known to frequent O’Rourke’s saloon on the Bowery. But each of them was acutely conscious of the unequal position of women in America. Each had grown up without much money and had come to New York to make a place for herself in big-city journalism, achieving a hard-won success in what was still, unquestionably, a man’s world.

(via Blood Vessels of the Brain - Alzheimer’s Association)
So invested in understanding the brain. Constructing a smart tech solution for dementia patients. 

(via Blood Vessels of the Brain - Alzheimer’s Association)

So invested in understanding the brain. Constructing a smart tech solution for dementia patients.