Risk, Possibilities, Opacity and Creativity

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

Part 1: 02:38
Phenomenology, "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: 10:23
Uncertainty, 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: 25:18
Ontology, 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