- Jun 2024
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jaredhenderson.substack.com jaredhenderson.substack.com
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My son is roughly a year old, which means he is starting to walk. He still can’t make it across the room, but he can take a few steps. He has a peculiar habit of eating bananas while standing. This usually means he holds a large chunk of banana in one hand while using the other to hold on to the table. Sometimes, overcome by banana-eating euphoria, he will let go of the table he’s using for stability, and he’ll just stand. Then he notices what he has done, and he promptly falls down. It is reckless to attribute complex thoughts to a developing child, but it seems like he is able to stand until he remembers that he can’t. It’s like his conscious thoughts are preventing him from walking around the room.
Reminds me of Dragon Ball's concept of Ultra-Instinct, where the best way to fight is to rely on complete intuition and let go of all thought.
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- Nov 2023
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www.canarymedia.com www.canarymedia.com
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King Kamehameha
THAT'S where the Kamehameha comes from?
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- Sep 2023
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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1:12:00 dragon as symbol of predator
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10:00 hero’s journey as non-deterministic, growing possibility of horizons for individuals
seeing day as potential horizons, facing the dragons of the day
see in Hobbit, Harry Potter, Star Wars
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1:05:00 going to dark places, not media & technology
- see zk on using media as distraction
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- Feb 2022
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www.scientificamerican.com www.scientificamerican.com
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We added a mechanism for the variable motion of the sun and an epicyclic mechanism for calculating the “nodes” of the moon—the points at which the moon’s orbit cuts through the plane of the ecliptic, making an eclipse possible. Eclipses happen only when the sun is close to one of these nodes during a full or new moon. Medieval and renaissance astronomers called a double-ended pointer for the nodes of the moon a “dragon hand.” The epicyclic gearing for this dragon hand also exactly explained a prominent bearing on one of the spokes that had previously appeared to have no function.
The nodes of the moon are the points at which the moon's orbit cuts through the plane of the ecliptic. These nodes make an eclipse possible and they happen only when the sun is close to one of these nodes during either a full or a new moon.
Medieval and renaissance astronomers called a double-ended pointer for the nodes of the moon a "dragon hand".
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- Nov 2021
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sharonede.medium.com sharonede.medium.com
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Slaying the ‘rent dragon’ — by capturing more of the ‘rents’ extracted from communities and using them to eliminate the rents charged to communities — would enable a latent pile of ‘gold’, in the form of money and human energy, to go to productive activities that deliver community and social benefit.
Trying out these existing rent dragon slaying models to see what works in the local context is really important to a thriving commons.
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- Dec 2019
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frankensteinvariorum.github.io frankensteinvariorum.github.io
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St. George
Best remembered for the tale "St. George and the Dragon," a legend told by Crusaders, George became the patron saint of England.
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- Oct 2018
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cloud.degrowth.net cloud.degrowth.netdownload1
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the social technologies- knowing how to organize and have effective meeting- from sociocracy and dragon dreaming, agile tools.
There is a lot to learn from, about Teixidora's meeting notes methodology, for example. http://peerproduction.net/editsuite/issues/issue-11-city/peer-reviewed-papers/the-case-of-teixidora-net-in-barcelona/
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- Apr 2017
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www.inverse.com www.inverse.com
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We should’ve known that dragon blood would have healing properties. Rubeus Hagrid used it on his injuries after being attacked by giants, after all.
Okay, ha ha, to the journalist that put this line in!
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a dark horse that may help to save the day against these seemingly invincible “superbugs”: the Komodo dragon. This rare animal’s blood contains antibiotics that may be useful in stopping diseases in humans.
Wow, who would think to check this?
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