“I know a lot of people who make things who don’t stand proudly by their stuff, I don’t know if they’re too cool or they don’t want to look thirsty, but they’ll put a song out once on their stories — and that’s it.

You went through something. You figured something out in a structured format. You recorded it. Not just one take. Parts and parts.

When any positive feeling or thought strikes you, emote it. Tell your friends you hope you’ll be friends for life; tell people you are attracted to them; laugh out loud and touch people. We are emotional, physical beings — to not express our emotions in person, through shared experiences, is to be less human. Less alive.

Imagine your life as a book. What title would you give to the current chapter, and what is going to be the next?

“They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm

I don’t want to go viral. I’d rather be resonant.

Will it be that we define ourselves more by the tools we don't use, or the moments we don't use them?

“I would argue what unlocks celebrity is a certain collapsed distance. It’s inhabiting a fantasy of intimacy and proximity. All forms of technology collapse that distance.”

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— age of relevance report