Chad Moore

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Latest — 05 Mar 2025

Lessons I keep learning over and over

The obstacle is the way. I was looking for a way into a subject and a way around my lack of education in the space. The way in is diving in. The way around is to use my experience in the space not my academic knowledge. The path is made

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Zinelkasten?

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about journaling on paper. Notebooks. Creative paper projects. Zines. I’ve also been thinking about how to I organize my marginalia. Marginalia is the notes in the margins of a book. I highlight, make notes, even doodle in the books I read. Some

Pass the notebook

The wheel. Fire. The Internet. These are often cited as humanity’s greatest inventions. I think we’re undervaluing paper. If someone asked me what the greatest inventions we’ve made are, I’d add paper to the list. And add a caveat to the Internet. The un-enshitified Internet, but

Complexity, Walking, and Improv

I’m new to the study of Complexity Science. I’ve heard Complexity Science defined as the study of networks of adaptive agents. Ant colonies, people, organizations, and economic markets are all examples of complex systems. Also, I like these definitions of the features of complex systems from Karoline Wiesner

Use Ugly Sketches

Eppler’s first point is contradictory but so true, in my experience. If you want to find, discover, collaborate, foster emergence, then use a visual that is unpolished. A napkin sketch. A doodle on a post-it. It naturally invites people to the conversation. I really love the tactic of crazy

Forager

My friend Chris and I were accountability buddies in the Ness Labs Collector to Creator course a while back. This course was a really great introduction to collecting information and then doing something with it. Writing in particular, but whatever way you wanted to express yourself. Whatever way you wished

Everything is Unscripted

Will tomorrow look and feel a lot like today? Probably, yes. Will five years from now look and feel a lot like today? Plausibly, maybe. Possibly, no one knows. No one can see the future. Hell, no one knows exactly what to do right now. We strategize and plan and

Long Story Short

Applied Improv

This rock is changing right before your eyes

Slowly. When I took this photo, the tide was low, but coming in. I’d say that this rock was a part of the land. When the tide is high, the rock would be covered by water. It would then be a part of the ocean. The tide isn’t