Curiosities
‘Huh.’
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Art of making | And then it ended
I am really going to be opinionated, today. There are a lot, and I mean a lot, of things that start but don’t last very long here where I live. In Phnom Penh. People—people from here, people from outside, people with ‘a dream’—they get these projects going with a big rah rah and there are…
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A new issue of DESK covers the 13-year time gap of ‘exit, exile and return’
As a limited edition of 20, this issue gets personal. New original illustration and writing from the desk of DK. A curated set of interviews, personal essays, and short snippets on the reflective points of view from thinkers on ‘returns’. What if there is no ‘going back?’ A study of queries on these lines, this…
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Can we just be real, though?
From an HBR article called ‘AI Has Broken Hiring…,‘ Shraddha Sunil and Mudit Saraf write: When the appearance of competence becomes easy to manufacture, organizations that continue to rely on résumés and traditional first screens will increasingly select for people who are best at performing the hiring process, not necessarily the job itself. A lot of talk…
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Bitter old lady and grumpy old man
So yeah. I found this and I like this piece. This bit, especially… ‘Psychology reveals that the gentle elder and the bitter one didn’t simply inherit different personalities—they made different choices about their grief. How we process our losses throughout life directly determines the person we become. The divergence between softening and hardening with age…
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4th grader Ray Wu’s TEDx on Curiosity | ‘Discovering things that you never knew existed’
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Protected: Filtering out the ‘social fake’
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On process, software and starting to start: An exclusive Q&A
This article originally appeared ten years ago, in our weekly ezine, S. P. A. C. E. But the ideas of starting to start, and taking initiative, seem especially important to re-share as we change directions now and return our attention to new guests just joining us in Southeast Asia. When do you make a stab…
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ELI5
How we talk to each other: ‘ELI5’ But what does this have to do with how we talk about what we’re doing, and how we’re making things in ways that other people will relate to, and connect with? There is no one answer to this that hits all the right buttons. But eliminating confusion by…
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Art & Copy
U P C O M I N G S September Art & Copy | Writers’ & Artists’ Salon Friday, 10 October Book tickets[15$]: https://buy.stripe.com/14A7sL6pigHF2FzehJbZe0z or via ABA* *Request more info via email *** November Phnom Penh Graphic Design Residency *** December Kobe Artists’ & Writers’ Residency For members of Cojournal Kobe *** January Raleigh…
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Protected: Em vẫn ổn ở đó không
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S P A C E | Autumn, ‘Curiosity’ Vol. I ‘How am I curious?’
Update: Archived.
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S P A C E | ‘How am I curious?’
Update: September 2024 This issue is now in our archives. Download it at this link: https://designkompany.gumroad.com/l/wsvjq
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S P A C E | Autumn 2024, ‘Curiosity’
Let’s talk about being curious. That’s the theme for our 12-issue zine set, ‘Curiosity,’ this season. Members of S P A C E will get the first batch of curated stories from S P A C E | ‘Curiosity’ on Tuesdays, but I’ll post select isues to our online shop, too. Volume I: ‘How am…
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Curiosity | In flow
These days we are in good flow. Planning the Atelier S P A C E tour for Japan, where we will discover stories for ‘The Way’, a winter series of the S P A C E mini-mag. That season’s stories are those I am really jazzed up to happen upon, and how this will take…
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Protected: Curiosity | Disrespect is anti-curiosity
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Protected: Desk | ‘The kbach, the space between us, and the Kingdom of Wonder’
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A note about the essential nature of curiosity
In a 2020 McKinsey article titled, ‘Six problem-solving mindsets for very uncertain times,’ Charles Conn, writes: ‘The mindsets of great problem solvers are just as important as the methods they employ. ‘A mindset that encourages curiosity, embraces imperfection, rewards a dragonfly-eye view of the problem, creates new data from experiments and collective intelligence, and drives action through…
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Protected: Expansive thinking
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On the keys to success, and acknowledging multiple layers of that
Buddha said, What we think, we become. I learned that from CN, in Phnom Penh, at a time when there was so much that was up in the air. He was a former monk who got into personal leadership, and related, and our overlapping interests in this field got us connected. These types of questions:…
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Purpose | ‘I’m home,’ Phil Cha’s TEDx about 10 years of travel
I like this video. Phil Cha goes on the road. For ten years. To figure out, ‘Who am I?’ Boy, I can relate to that. Nine years in mostly Phnom Penh, now, with a year on the road before that, to scope out the scene and ‘practice the uncertain, the new, and the different.’ Esoteric…
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Protected: S P A C E | ‘Be true to who you really are: Be yourself’
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Issue #200, S P A C E | ‘Pieces’
Here it is.
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S P A C E | I don’t have a smartphone
I don’t have a smartphone. I never did. The most often-asked question I get is, How do you keep in touch with people? The long and short of it is, I don’t. I have a very small social circle and I use email, zoom, and a calendar app to book times. I like things that are confirmed-confirmed.
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Issue #192: ‘Cat’
This week’s issue of S P A C E is ‘Cat.’ Maybe because it’s easier to find something relatable than all the usual esotericism here at S P A C E that I found ‘cat’ to be a good subject. A theme. A story of the moment. You know even just writing the rest of…
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Job redesign, knowing when, how
A lot of shifts, a lot of uncertainty. Is it time to redesign things at the workplace? People who want to up the ante when it comes to creating workplace cultures that are truly enriching. Comfort, kindness, care, and wellbeing are buzzwords of course but I feel like it really starts with making sure everyone…