the resonant computing club

The Resonant Computing Club manifesto articulating a potential way of building technology that feels GOOD. Manifestos get stick for being overly theoretical. I believe it's not sufficient to just be against stuff; you also have to know what you are for. We need things to rally around and contribute to. Every OpenAI needs an Anthropic as counter balance. Some smart friends + collaborators worked on this. Go read.

from Renaissance coffeehouses to Bauhaus, Salmon Creek Farm to Black Mountain College, the biggest thread in my reading & interests over the years are clusters that come together and collectively create very different futures. Scenius = collective genius. Rare and precious. I gasped out loud learning about Second Renaissance; an incredibly cool archive where many examples of this has been collected, tagged and organised to understand the philosophies, funding, governance and norms that create these conditions.

More mastery; this documentary by Stripe Press on master perfumer Christophe Laudemiel. Wow!

My two favourite Instagram accounts of the year were endless weird inspiration from Psychedelic Archives + Das Archivee

To help us touch grass on the break, Danger Testing dropped their newest app Kumo; a Tamagotchi who thrives when you're offline. Cute.

Finally, if you'd like to unlock your own Christmas mum (gender agnostic), go check out the Buchheit cookie world; the cherry Nutcracker moulds make me nostalgic for a past I didn't experience, the website makes me nostalgic for a past I did. Humans are brilliant.