by natecooper | Mar 31, 2025 | aesthetics, art, Comics, culture, technology
“On the Aura, Reproduction, and the Machine That Dreams” I have been deep in ChatGPT conversations recently and I happened upon a framework supposing that Walter Benjamin (Author of the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction) considered whether ai similarly...
by natecooper | Jun 25, 2019 | books, cool, culture, education, Mindfulness, Psychology, Science, technology
I recently picked up a book by Moheb Constandi called Neuroplasticity. It was published by MIT Press in 2016 and I was mostly interested in reading about the current state of the science on the subject. Neuroplasticity is a general term that describes a number of...
by natecooper | Feb 6, 2019 | books, culture, digital media, internet, media, Mindfulness, Nate's Thoughts, Psychology, technology
Last Monday I entered a wide corporate lobby with marbled floors and an imposing security desk. In midtown Manhattan on the second floor lies a kind of open floor plan tech campus home of Company. The backdrop of the event’s stage were gilded age windows...
by natecooper | Jan 1, 2018 | culture, education, technology
New Podcast! Cut Your Learning Curve: Hack Your Brain to Learn Skills, Increase Your Potential, and Get The Life You Want Available today! Subscribe now on iTunes or Google Play Is Learning Problem Solving? Over the past 7 years as I’ve been teaching people how...
by natecooper | Aug 20, 2016 | culture, digital media, technology, world
In the past few weeks as I’ve travelled back and forth between Los Angeles and New York, I’ve found myself in several conversations and activities centered around agency. While these different practices all have unique lexicons, whether it be through the...
by natecooper | Jun 20, 2015 | cities, cool, Mexico, Nate's Thoughts, technology
I came down to Mexico because I care about education. My friend Eme, trusted me to come to New York when I was hosting an event last November. He bought his ticket and jumped in and while here, he gave a wonderful and moving talk about Dev.f a school that he set up...