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“What I wanted to put out into the world was queer joy,” explained Tierney on What Chaos! , a podcast that is otherwise about hockey. “The idea that we’re allowed to exist, we’re allowed to have sex, we’re allowed to be in love, we’re allowed to live. That’s the whole appeal. That’s why I made it.”

Becoming a vehicle for capitalistic desires of abundance and overconsumption. We’re asking, what would an underconsumption-core of love look like? What if we could take only what we required in the moment, better able to understand ourselves and our needs in the context of the present?

Perhaps a rebrand is in order. A new hairstyle, a new hobby, a new route. Why should Pepsi have all the fun?

common knowledge is now harder to generate at the level of a nation, and easier to generate at the level of a group. That’s a perilous combination.

brands solve coordination problems. Advertising taps a basic need of people to conform to the norms of the community they’re in

Acknowledging this bias or incompleteness is perhaps the most important part of the work.

Answers are mere theory.

We often keep our connections close to our chests, guarding them like precious resources, believing that by holding onto them, we’re preserving their value. But here’s the irony: by doing that, we’re actually diminishing their value. Networks don’t thrive in isolation; they come alive when the number of connections—the nodes within them—increases.