Love this. Have you tried a variety of meditation methods and found 'yours' or did the first one stick? Would love a deep dive on that and specifics of what you do / how the experience changes over time (if it ever interests you to write about)
“I’ve turned a bunch of folks onto meditation using TRIPP on the Quest”
I don’t know man, to me, tech is the opposite of meditation… but I’m open to changing my mind. Next time I see you bring a Quest, I’d love to see how it goes.
I am excited about anything that helps people on their way. Mine involves cushions and silence. For some people it's sound. For some folks it's a scriptural relationship, or a tradition. In my book if you're asking "Why?" you're at least going in the right direction.
Watching Casey lose it while feeding a donut to a dinsosaur in Krispy Kreme - which was a total acid-trip moment for him and everyone standing around him - yowza. Stroke of genius for him to take his Apple Vision for a walk - no one else did that. Distraction, disconnection, connection, private things in public spaces - the power of this is going to rewrite a whole lot of rules about how humans interact or don't down the road. I think for me that what I notice is a rise in value in the things I can do that are strictly "me" - like making music, not consuming it - and the value in participating in sending that outwards diminishes - the doing is all - the product recedes.
Right! I absolutely see the "sharp tool" aspect of this. Like current-gen AI, there will be tasks for which it will turn out to be very well suited (excited to try a video workflow honestly). And I also see a lot of weird "... and thus ..." problems to go with all that potential
I'm not sure that we'll live more abstracted lives but our memories will no longer be human neural-based but in fact, digitized. And with that, a part of what makes us human, for good or for bad, will be lost. The still camera replaced the artist's palette, with "reality" replacing the artist's human interpretation.
The ubiquity of video has changed how we react/interact and how people interpret those interactions. The April 2017 United Airlines incident where a passenger was forcibly dragged off an aircraft was a watershed. United misunderstood the reality of those videos and thought they could continue the corporate spin as usual.
Now that we are approaching an always recorded, always on reality, how will that effect how we as humans interact? Will it make us more reserved, knowing that what we say or do will be shown to the world? Or will it drive even more extreme behavior in our current hyper-partisan, attention-seeking environment? Only time will tell.
I suspect (hope?) that the backlash is real. Physicality seems to matter -- Vinyl sales and so on. Certainly the pandemic seems to have been a boon to the altered state economy. So perhaps we revert to a more balanced hemispheric world. Skeptical, obviously, but hopeful too.
Love this. Have you tried a variety of meditation methods and found 'yours' or did the first one stick? Would love a deep dive on that and specifics of what you do / how the experience changes over time (if it ever interests you to write about)
“I’ve turned a bunch of folks onto meditation using TRIPP on the Quest”
I don’t know man, to me, tech is the opposite of meditation… but I’m open to changing my mind. Next time I see you bring a Quest, I’d love to see how it goes.
I am excited about anything that helps people on their way. Mine involves cushions and silence. For some people it's sound. For some folks it's a scriptural relationship, or a tradition. In my book if you're asking "Why?" you're at least going in the right direction.
Watching Casey lose it while feeding a donut to a dinsosaur in Krispy Kreme - which was a total acid-trip moment for him and everyone standing around him - yowza. Stroke of genius for him to take his Apple Vision for a walk - no one else did that. Distraction, disconnection, connection, private things in public spaces - the power of this is going to rewrite a whole lot of rules about how humans interact or don't down the road. I think for me that what I notice is a rise in value in the things I can do that are strictly "me" - like making music, not consuming it - and the value in participating in sending that outwards diminishes - the doing is all - the product recedes.
Interesting.
Right! I absolutely see the "sharp tool" aspect of this. Like current-gen AI, there will be tasks for which it will turn out to be very well suited (excited to try a video workflow honestly). And I also see a lot of weird "... and thus ..." problems to go with all that potential
I'm not sure that we'll live more abstracted lives but our memories will no longer be human neural-based but in fact, digitized. And with that, a part of what makes us human, for good or for bad, will be lost. The still camera replaced the artist's palette, with "reality" replacing the artist's human interpretation.
The ubiquity of video has changed how we react/interact and how people interpret those interactions. The April 2017 United Airlines incident where a passenger was forcibly dragged off an aircraft was a watershed. United misunderstood the reality of those videos and thought they could continue the corporate spin as usual.
Now that we are approaching an always recorded, always on reality, how will that effect how we as humans interact? Will it make us more reserved, knowing that what we say or do will be shown to the world? Or will it drive even more extreme behavior in our current hyper-partisan, attention-seeking environment? Only time will tell.
I suspect (hope?) that the backlash is real. Physicality seems to matter -- Vinyl sales and so on. Certainly the pandemic seems to have been a boon to the altered state economy. So perhaps we revert to a more balanced hemispheric world. Skeptical, obviously, but hopeful too.