Curated lists
Tools, readings, blogs, and communities from people who build across boundaries
Blogs & sources
Where to follow
The publications, blogs, and labs where directory members share their work.
A curated set of feeds worth subscribing to.
Readings
Essays, books, and deep dives that shaped how we think about building across boundaries.
IdeaFlow Background
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Jacob Cole’s curated reading list on knowledge tools, augmenting intelligence, and the history of tools for thought.
GUIDE
Inventing on Principle
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Bret Victor’s foundational talk. Creators need an immediate connection to what they create.
TALK
Age of Entanglement
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Neri Oxman’s Krebs Cycle of Creativity — mapping the four domains (Science, Engineering, Design, Art) and the flows between them.
ESSAY
Transformative Tools for Thought
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Andy Matuschak & Michael Nielsen on what it would take to build media as transformative as the Hindu-Arabic numeral system.
ESSAY
Why Books Don’t Work
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Andy Matuschak on why transmissionist media fails and what might replace it.
ESSAY
Home-Cooked Software
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Maggie Appleton on the coming golden age of personal software by non-professional engineers.
ESSAY
Pace Layering
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Stewart Brand on how complex systems learn. Fashion moves fast, nature moves slow. One of the most cited frameworks in systems thinking.
ESSAY
Childhoods of Exceptional People
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Henrik Karlsson on the environments that produced original thinkers. Tutored 1-on-1, surrounded by talented adults, enormous unstructured time.
ESSAY
Adjacent communities
Other spaces where cross-disciplinary builders gather.
The SF Commons
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Patricia Mou’s “fourth place” in Hayes Valley, SF. A space for meaning-making, embodied pluralism, and non-dogmatic ritual.
SPACE
Long Now Foundation
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Fostering long-term thinking. The 10,000-year clock, the Rosetta Project, and seminars about long-term responsibility.
FOUNDATION
Interdependence
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A literary-hacker community reimagining digital futures through collective authorship. Co-signed by Daanish Shabbir and others.
COLLECTIVE