Validity

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What counts, why does it count, and who gets to decide?

8 SHORT ESSAYS exploring the topic of validity. About consciousness around what and how we measure.

How do you know if an item, idea, person, or group has “worthiness”?

Cogency. Weight.

What counts?

IN ANY Western curriculum on microeconomics, you will read about “utility,” which is “the total satisfaction received from consuming a good or service.” Those profs told us “happiness” is “utility” and it is derived from consumption. They told us our human worthiness was the sum total of dollars we could generate from our intelligence and sweat, in the form of income. Then IBM went and proclaimed, “Work is Worship.”

But--what if it's not? What if there's another way to think about what is important, where to put our trust, how to feel about that which is made, and built, with our minds, hearts, and hands?

Inside

A PROMINENT British scientist makes sexist comments in Korea. A travel writer confesses in an endearing way his feelings on being a man. An astronaut reveals a giant insight about what we really are, what our existence really is. And a composer tells us how to think about our work.

All that, plus a special essay by invitation from a Japanese critic summing his take on two giant 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games design controversies---the proposed structure of the building, and the logo design. He unpacks and translates the story about design, ego, disinterest, and 'value' when it comes to the work happening now, and what might happen next as a result. 


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Validity