Intro: 00:00Going upstream along the path of concretizing an idea

Part 1: 02:38Phenomenology, "bracketing"

Mentioned:

  • Twitter thread on affordances and phenomenology
  • The “ambient optic array” in JJ Gibson’s Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
  • Wikipedia pages on Husserl and Epoché (bracketing)

Part 2: 10:23Uncertainty, two kinds of opacity: risk and richness, creative constraints

Mentioned:

  • The circuit breaker to manage uncertainty in Shape Up
  • On "opacity" see any of Taleb's books, especially Antifragile

Part 3: 25:18Ontology, res extensa and res potentia, the adjacent possible

Mentioned:

  • Stuart Kauffman's Res Potentia and Res Extensa
  • On the evolution of tech, see the epilogue of Kauffman's A World Beyond Physics

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