Everything is temporary. When a mood is so overwhelming we tend to mistake the intensity of it for the longevity of it

“Chaos is a different word for risk. Tension and complexity are the differences between safe art and art that's willing to push boundaries and make people nervous or, better yet, question the status quo”

[KAREN WONG_CREATIVE CONSULTANT]

— Age of Relevance

dopamine is not the molecule of pleasure; it’s the molecule of drive

— Andrew Huberman: The Optimal Morning Routine

The difference today is that in Filterworld, the metrics-the number of likes, the preexisting attention-tend to speak louder than the piece of culture itself. Not only do they act as a measure of success, but they create success, because they dictate what is recommended to and seen by audiences in the first place.

— Filterworld, pg. 132

The time you spend is not your own.

You are, as a class of human beings, responsible for more pure raw time, broken into more units, than almost anyone else. You spent two years learning, focusing, exploring, but that was your time; now you are about to spend whole decades, whole centuries, of cumulative moments, of other people’s time. People usin

The proliferation of “curating” speaks of a generation anxious for authority and authorship, and also for meaning.

- Lou Stoppard, Writer

Is chasing virality going out of fashion?

Cultural Moneyballism, in this light, sacrifices exuberance for the sake of formulaic symmetry. It sacrifices diversity for the sake of familiarity. It solves finite games at the expense of infinite games. Its genius dulls the rough edges of entertainment. I think that’s worth caring about. It is definitely worth asking the question: In a world tha