New medicine. Old teacher. #koan

The colours of the rainbow are more potent, true, and wordless than the many-splendoured fractions of our polis

Solo bionic hand clap. Master blinks new slow. #koan

Forest big. Paths many. #koan

Wildfires in the heart of man. Woman to the rescue. #koan

Story-changing is a way forward and beyond.

Data Monster ... Eats every cookie on the internet.

It will take everyone's gifts to get to where we're going

Merging worldviews is the way of the soul. Deep down.

In the other hand, there are flowers.

In the garden of meaning we can cultivate our fave seeds. #koan #poem

It was an indigo winter. A liminal period of purple shadows. And we crawled into the cocoon, naked, in surrender to the voyage and the beauty beyond. #poem

A Short Case for Brand New Dreams calvinschnurr.substack.com/p/a-short-case… Brands can play a larger role in steering the hearts and dreams of citizens to novel, redemptive, and constructive visions of our future worlds and realities.

Who Can Play Peacemaker? open.substack.com/pub/calvinschn… A reflection on AI, creativity, and emerging fault lines. We can learn to play the new machines to dream new futures into being. #ai #ArtificialIntelligence #creativity #Advertising #dreams

Promptly engineered haiku open.substack.com/pub/calvinschn… Create an image. Black and white, please, GPT. A modern koan. #ai #ArtificialIntelligence #poetry #haiku #koan

Marketing Idealism open.substack.com/pub/calvinschn… Marketers are mechanics of new machines and cartographers of soul. We must guard our idealism for the trail ahead. #marketing #idealism #innovation #discovery

Fruit at the Top of the Tree open.substack.com/pub/calvinschn… Clichés are little tombstones of thought. They mark final resting places, where synapses have lapsed, shrivelled, and stopped firing. #cliches #clichés #language #creativity

palimpsest (noun): a place, experience, etc., in which something new is superimposed over traces of something preceding it. From Greek palimpsestos from palin again + psestos rubbed smooth #words #vocabulary #vocab #wordoftheday

Lectio Divina (noun): a traditional monastic practice of scriptural reading, meditation, and prayer. Latin for "Divine Reading" #words #wordoftheday #vocab #vocabulary

palatine (adjective): having local authority that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign. From Latin palatinus, of the palace #words #wordoftheday #vocab #vocabulary