I haven’t been reflecting much since my first post, but I did go on a 2+ weeks trip and spent much of that time disconnecting which is something that always puts things in perspective.
Today’s reflection is brought to you from a library in the Kreuzberg neighbourhood in Berlin. It’s been a couple weeks since my last reflection, and in that time there’s been some research movement, with talks and conferences and conversations, so there’s material to process.
As part of my research, I started reading Jessica Livingston’s Founders at Work to get a feel for the overculture.
I chose the word overculture deliberately, but It’s interesting to think that this book came out in 2008, two years before The Social Network.
I skipped last week’s reflection, as I was on a retreat. Before you dock me a few points hear me out, there’s a sense in which this retreat is field research for my project.
We’re some number1 of weeks into this thing, and I owe myself and my fellow fellows a reflection of some kind.
There’s a sense that I had when I was trying to frame my research of topic where I felt “have I been asking myself this question my entire career?
This week has been a less explicitly productive one for my research. However because of the auto-ethnographic quality to the work I’m doing, technically anything I do while inside the fellowship container is data on what it’s like to be inside the fellowship container…
This week, I’ve been inspired by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner’s Teaching as a Subversive Activity. Written in the late 1960s, they advocate in a polemical style for a new philosophy of education.