First, our cognitive abilities do not remain static over the course of a day. During the sixteen or so hours we’re awake, they change—often in a regular, foreseeable manner. We are smarter, faster, dimmer, slower, more creative, and less
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“Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?”
― The Fifth Season
― The Fifth Season
“Fiction that centers those who are currently marginalized—not to be nice, but because those who survive on the margins tend to be the most experientially innovative—practicing survival-based efficiency, doing the most with the least, an important skill area on a planet whose resources are under assault by less marginalized people.”
― Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
― Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
“We can imagine the impossible, provided we do not imagine it in perfect detail and all at once.”
― On the Plurality of Worlds
― On the Plurality of Worlds
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
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“Science fiction, particularly visionary fiction, is where I go when I need the medicine of possibility applied to the trauma of human behavior.”
― Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
― Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
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