Sand Talk
by Tyson Yunkaporta · first published 2019
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This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schr dinger's cat. Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently? Sand Talk provides a template for living. It's about how lines and symbols and shapes can help us make sense of the world. It's about how we learn and how we remember. It's about talking to everybody and listening carefully. It's about finding different ways
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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, was a great piece of fiction that shows that you can be true to your word, and experience a good life despite whatever is thrown your way. Beautiful prose too. Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta, a primer on how Aboriginal Australian cultures view time, chaos and interactions. Good reminder that there are multiple ways of creating a narrative about the world that may or may…
on “Ask HN: What Books helped you sharpen your brains?” ↗If you want to learn more about indigenous memory techniques read: "Memory Craft" by Dr. Lynne Kelly and "Sand Talk" by one of the authors of the experiment in question.
on “An ultimate guide to memory palaces” ↗