Agalia Tan
- “Everyone bifurcates the world into content and distribution,” Whaley told me. He has brown hair, is of average height, and was wearing a nondescript gray t-shirt and jeans when we talked. “From the beginning, we viewed those as the same thing. Each object gets better with more participation, and so does MSCHF. Scale is not the goal. Scale is a too... See more
from The Art of Scaling Taste by Evan Armstrong
- the quantitative revolution in culture is a living creature that consumes data and spits out homogeneity.
from What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture by Derek Thompson
- A primary reinforcer is something we’re born to desire. A conditioned reinforcer is something we learn to desire, due to its association with a primary reinforcer.
from Why Everything is Becoming a Game
we are shaped by our tools, systems, and environment
the world has been gamified
Pmarchive - Luck and the entrepreneur, part 1: The four kinds of luck
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4 types of luck
Chance I is completely impersonal; you can’t influence it.
Chance II favors those who have a persistent curiosity about many things coupled with an energetic willingness to experiment and explore
Chance III favors those who have a sufficient background of sound knowledge plus special abilities in observing, remembering, recalling, and quickly forming significant new associations.
Chance IV favors those with distinctive, if not eccentric hobbies, personal lifestyles, and motor behaviors.
- “How do you take a walk with someone on the internet?”
from On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
- Is authenticity the goal or itself a performance?
from Messy desks and the myth of the perfect workspace
- There is a big difference between being interested in something and being committed to something.
Committed people do what interested people won’t.from Brain Food: Interested vs. Committed
- Humans are simpler than the instructions would have us believe. We’re all looking for the same things. To be seen. To be accepted. To connect. To matter. This is true for readers and writers and kids and strangers and the cast of Love Is Blind.
- I also find that within every Big Thing, there’s a hidden (to greater or lesser degrees) record of the process of its making, like thumbprints on a handmade clay vase. With so much time sitting and working, your subconscious can’t help but make itself felt, in tics of grammar or vocabulary or pet themes that return again and again.
from Finishing a book
- In any creative endeavor, it’s possible to define success as the big win, the moment when your dreams match reality. Success is the end of imposter syndrome, stability and finally making it to the other side.
By this definition, it’s clear that success isn’t going to happen. It’s incompatible with the reason you do this work in the first place.
Sure,... See more