Tim Kastelle
@timkastelle.bsky.social
Innovation guy, birder, Professor, hockey fan. Bad at writing bios. University of Queensland.
Innovation stuff here: https://timkastelle.org
Innovation stuff here: https://timkastelle.org
This is an important book that you should probably read.
It's pub day for The Pacific Circuit, my book. For Bluesky, I wanted to lay out some of the arguments in the book, and what they might say about the present moment of trade war and technological development. So, let's start with: what is the Pacific Circuit?
BIG THREAD (sorry)
BIG THREAD (sorry)
May 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This is an important book that you should probably read.
This is very excellent.
Of all the tech and design thinkers we've had so far, Ursula Franklin is maybe the closest to my heart. Going back to the wellspring for this one.
www.wrecka.ge/ursulas-list/
www.wrecka.ge/ursulas-list/
Ursula's list
Ursula Franklin is one of my all-time favorite thinkers about both the obvious and obscured parts of our technological world.
www.wrecka.ge
April 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
This is very excellent.
If you see thus, post a fictional band that you would love to see live.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=nlUE...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=nlUE...
February 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
If you see thus, post a fictional band that you would love to see live.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=nlUE...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=nlUE...
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it has been 8 beautiful days since we hired our most talented and lawful employee. also why have 54 police cars and the entire London Zoological Society gathered in the museum café
we're thrilled to share that we've started the year with a new addition to our team! he's extremely smart, capable, charming, persuasive, and boasts a wealth of museum experience
January 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
it has been 8 beautiful days since we hired our most talented and lawful employee. also why have 54 police cars and the entire London Zoological Society gathered in the museum café
“…it’s hard to build mechanisms to support stewardship based on “proof of regeneration”—but that’s what the Regen Network is working towards building.”
Goes from the wood wide web to DAOs in a discussion in a fascinating conversation.
dark.properties/a-new-order-...
Goes from the wood wide web to DAOs in a discussion in a fascinating conversation.
dark.properties/a-new-order-...
A new order of regenerative kinship ⟳
Austin Wade Smith on designing technological infrastructures to steward symbiotic relationships with the more-than-human world.
dark.properties
January 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
“…it’s hard to build mechanisms to support stewardship based on “proof of regeneration”—but that’s what the Regen Network is working towards building.”
Goes from the wood wide web to DAOs in a discussion in a fascinating conversation.
dark.properties/a-new-order-...
Goes from the wood wide web to DAOs in a discussion in a fascinating conversation.
dark.properties/a-new-order-...
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“Catastrophic fire erases what was there before. So does forgetting. Memory is a resource for facing the future; it’s equipment for imagining, planning, preparing.”
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social pin-sharp and bang-on as always.
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social pin-sharp and bang-on as always.
I wrote a thing, because these fires are in the increasingly common category of shocking but not surprising. Neither unprecedented nor unforeseen by those who study the subjects.....
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca Solnit
The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
“Catastrophic fire erases what was there before. So does forgetting. Memory is a resource for facing the future; it’s equipment for imagining, planning, preparing.”
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social pin-sharp and bang-on as always.
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social pin-sharp and bang-on as always.
Andrew is one of the best writers around, and his newsletter is well worth a subscription.
A look back at Ministry's song N.W.O. (New World Order) and its applicability to the present moment. Free to read - subscriptions from a pitiful US$1/month, folks! (and I've just lost a job, so need to push this page a bit harder than usual) www.patreon.com/posts/friday...
Friday On My Mind: N.W.O. | Andrew Stafford
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January 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Andrew is one of the best writers around, and his newsletter is well worth a subscription.
“With this, we have arrived at a picture of human intelligence than runs far beyond instrumental reason. We might call it, in contrast, ecological reason—a view of intelligence that stresses both indeterminacy and the interactive relationship between ourselves and our environments.”
Fascinating, long essay by Evgeny Morozov exploring how the history of AI gives us a technology designed for instrumental reason, and how some alternative choices could have given—and still could give—us very different and far better forms of human-centred AI: www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai...
The AI We Deserve - Boston Review
Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?
www.bostonreview.net
January 9, 2025 at 3:51 AM
“With this, we have arrived at a picture of human intelligence than runs far beyond instrumental reason. We might call it, in contrast, ecological reason—a view of intelligence that stresses both indeterminacy and the interactive relationship between ourselves and our environments.”
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A major challenge in restoration ecology is the widespread belief that there is a correct natural community for any given location, and that identifying it is the first step in recreating it. 1/6
December 19, 2024 at 8:58 AM
A major challenge in restoration ecology is the widespread belief that there is a correct natural community for any given location, and that identifying it is the first step in recreating it. 1/6
Anyone with even a passing interest in music, or data analytics, or AI should definitely read this book. The tech side is fascinating, but the joy of music is what makes it soar!
Just a terrific book.
Just a terrific book.
If you like your human culture ground into low-intention AI mush, good news: you're going to get a lot of that.
If you're interested in how data and algorithms might work for curiosity and joy, instead, you might like my book.
www.furia.com/log/487
If you're interested in how data and algorithms might work for curiosity and joy, instead, you might like my book.
www.furia.com/log/487
December 19, 2024 at 11:04 AM
Anyone with even a passing interest in music, or data analytics, or AI should definitely read this book. The tech side is fascinating, but the joy of music is what makes it soar!
Just a terrific book.
Just a terrific book.
Super interesting! Glad that @kathleenjamie.bsky.social shared it.
The first phylogenetic mapping of a river. The Upper Teviot watershed, created as a way to think about flood prevention for a project in Hawick, with Gill Russell.
December 7, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Super interesting! Glad that @kathleenjamie.bsky.social shared it.
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Have you red this absolute gem from @mcsweeneys.net? If nothing else, it will allow you to avoid grading for a few minutes.
I Would Rather Do Anything Else Than Grade Your Final Papers
Dear Students Who Have Just Completed My Class,
I would rather do anything else than grade your Final Papers.
I would rather base jump off of the p...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 7, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Have you red this absolute gem from @mcsweeneys.net? If nothing else, it will allow you to avoid grading for a few minutes.
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Gartner hype cycle for innovation practices, 2024.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
December 4, 2024 at 6:13 AM
Gartner hype cycle for innovation practices, 2024.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
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"Rather than attempt to read between the lines of the latest email from the Subdean for Academic Affairs, simply click on the ADMINISTRATOR LANGUAGE DETECTED icon to reveal the message in English and determine the threat level to your department, program, or mental health."
Faculty, Rejoice: Gmail Can Now Translate “Deanspeak”
We are thrilled to announce that Google Translate has recently added “Deanspeak” to its suite of language-detection tools. In addition to offering ...
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December 3, 2024 at 2:00 AM
"Rather than attempt to read between the lines of the latest email from the Subdean for Academic Affairs, simply click on the ADMINISTRATOR LANGUAGE DETECTED icon to reveal the message in English and determine the threat level to your department, program, or mental health."
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As I move over to bluesky, reposting this important new paper on nature positive-aligned environment laws, led by Hannah Thomas & Fei Chung with a critique of Australia’s attempt at nature positive reforms: "Achieving “nature positive” requires net gain legislation" science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Achieving “nature positive” requires net gain legislation
Reforms underway in Australia highlight key challenges
science.org
November 17, 2024 at 7:56 AM
As I move over to bluesky, reposting this important new paper on nature positive-aligned environment laws, led by Hannah Thomas & Fei Chung with a critique of Australia’s attempt at nature positive reforms: "Achieving “nature positive” requires net gain legislation" science.org/doi/10.1126/...
“Their philosophies diverged sharply. Negroponte focused on building quirky, eccentric machines, while Brodey prioritised creating quirky, eccentric humans.”
I’m with Evgeny Morozov in preferring the latter…
mondediplo.com/2024/08/07ai...
I’m with Evgeny Morozov in preferring the latter…
mondediplo.com/2024/08/07ai...
AI and the techno-utopian path not taken
Open access // by Evgeny Morozov (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, August 2024)
mondediplo.com
November 28, 2024 at 9:32 AM
“Their philosophies diverged sharply. Negroponte focused on building quirky, eccentric machines, while Brodey prioritised creating quirky, eccentric humans.”
I’m with Evgeny Morozov in preferring the latter…
mondediplo.com/2024/08/07ai...
I’m with Evgeny Morozov in preferring the latter…
mondediplo.com/2024/08/07ai...
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Why business professors should also write practitioner-focused articles
1. It makes us relevant to our primary stakeholders
2. It keeps our scholarship focused on things that
make a difference
3. It radically improves our teaching.
doi.org/10.1016/j.bu...
1. It makes us relevant to our primary stakeholders
2. It keeps our scholarship focused on things that
make a difference
3. It radically improves our teaching.
doi.org/10.1016/j.bu...
Redirecting
doi.org
November 26, 2024 at 7:03 AM
Why business professors should also write practitioner-focused articles
1. It makes us relevant to our primary stakeholders
2. It keeps our scholarship focused on things that
make a difference
3. It radically improves our teaching.
doi.org/10.1016/j.bu...
1. It makes us relevant to our primary stakeholders
2. It keeps our scholarship focused on things that
make a difference
3. It radically improves our teaching.
doi.org/10.1016/j.bu...
Had a good conversation with one of my PhD students today regarding increasing research impact. He reminded of this post - I think often when people are looking for the the right business model for their ideas, they treat it like a puzzle, when really it’s a mystery.
timkastelle.org/blog/2012/05...
timkastelle.org/blog/2012/05...
Are You Solving a Puzzle or a Mystery?
Innovation is all about coming up with new solutions to solve problems. But here’s an interesting question: is the problem that you’re trying to solve a puzzle or a mystery? The distinc…
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November 26, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Had a good conversation with one of my PhD students today regarding increasing research impact. He reminded of this post - I think often when people are looking for the the right business model for their ideas, they treat it like a puzzle, when really it’s a mystery.
timkastelle.org/blog/2012/05...
timkastelle.org/blog/2012/05...
This book by Pamela Mang and Ben Haggard is worthwhile.
November 24, 2024 at 9:42 AM
This book by Pamela Mang and Ben Haggard is worthwhile.
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a conversation between me and robin wall kimmerer about her new book, the serviceberry: abundance and reciprocity in the natural world
orionmagazine.org/article/gift...
orionmagazine.org/article/gift...
Gift Thinking - Orion Magazine
The relationships, abundance, and reciprocity of nature’s economy
orionmagazine.org
November 19, 2024 at 6:57 PM
a conversation between me and robin wall kimmerer about her new book, the serviceberry: abundance and reciprocity in the natural world
orionmagazine.org/article/gift...
orionmagazine.org/article/gift...
Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re dealing with.
November 16, 2024 at 7:19 AM
Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re dealing with.