We need a philosophy of Slow Thought to ease thinking into a more playful and porous dialogue about what it means to live

The only thing for certain is that everything changes. The rate of change increases. If you want to hang on, you better speed up. That is the message of today. It could however be useful to remind everyone that our basic needs never change. The need to be seen and appreciated! It is the need to belong. The need for nearness and care, and for a little love! This is given only through slowness in human relations. In order to master changes, we have to recover slowness, reflection and togetherness. There we will find real renewal.

An article by Vincenzo Di Nicola, edited by Sam Dresser published on www.aeon.co website

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Introspection and Mindfulness

Researchers at MIT led by Josh Tenenbaum hypothesize that our brains have what you might call an intuitive physics engine: The information that we are able to gather through our senses is imprecise and noisy, but we nonetheless make an inference about what we think will probably happen, so we can get out of the way or rush to keep a bag of rice from falling over or cover our ears. Such a “noisy Newtonian” system involves probabilistic understandings and can fail. Consider this image of rocks stacked in precarious formations.

An article by Joi Ito published on www.wired.com website

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Introspection and Mindfulness

Design thinking is just gaining prominence in India and there is a lot of buzz around the word. We were happy to interact with one of the thought leaders in design thinking, Bruce Nussbaum, Professor of Innovation and Design at Parsons New School of Design, a proponent of innovation, design thinking and creativity. He was in India as part of workshops for Spread. Spread is an Indian design and innovation firm training people to raise their creative capacities.

An article by Dola Samanta published on YourStory website

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Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a keynote by Graham Brown-Martin. Learning to thrive in a transforming world.. Article published on medium.com website.

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A new book from critic Alice Rawsthorn explains how graphic, product, and interactive design help and sometimes unintentionally hinder humans..

An article by Steven Heller published on The Atlantic Daily website

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As design thinking nears its 50th birthday, many companies still struggle to realize value from design. Those that succeed often follow ten best practices...

An article by John Edson, Garen Kouyoumjian, and Benedict Sheppard, Published on the McKinsey.com website

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