when i talk about my time at itp, i often tell people i’m living the dream.
i wonder: what is the dream?
is it the ability to be free from real-world constraints?
to be able to make whatever i want?
to be guided by curiosity, and curiosity alone?
is that empowering? the ability to be guided by your own curiosity — to make things that feel important to you.
to make things that you feel are important to be made.
to be surrounded by smart; curious; kind people?
to be supported?
==to feel like you’re fulfilling your creative potential? (as maslow argued)==
could this ^ be true? are all of my lower-order needs taken care of, and so i chase this higher order need; and the fact that i'm pursuing it (higher-order-need) incredibly fulfilling?
therefore if itp is a bubble, but conducive to magic; the real world is the opposite.
==but what good is something that cannot exist outside this bubble?==
^ strong argument for embedding things i make into my ‘real life’.
however, there is a caveat to all of this. my life at itp is very different from what my life outside itp is going to look like. therefore, things i make to improve my quality of life here may not improve my quality of life outside.
but that’s okay. the thesis is my conversion to a toolmaker.
gosh, this feels awfully similar to future sketches: what do the creative tools of the future look like?
i remember ling dong had made a device where you could program on the train, but i can’t find documentation for it anywhere. that’s kind of similar to cartese.