Agalia Tan

I think of this like a personal Overton window (although I know the analogy doesn’t make perfect sense). A kind of private tunnel vision that rearranges our reality so that our highs and lows are defined by only the most immediate wins and losses, with everything else rendered irrelevant—the hard fought habits we’ve kept, the old lessons that... See more

this is not about anti-technology or anti-ambition. It is pro-focus, pro-intention, and pro-discernment in how we understand broader historical contexts and apply the affordances of modern technology and media to our own ambitions. This is a call to reclaim our attention as a finite, precious resource.

THIS is the kind of information I want from the internet. The sharing of unpolished “here’s what worked for me” anecdotes and napkin sketches.

“The thinking part of you can tell you that a decision has been made, but it’s not the part of you which decides things.”

Unlike knowledge and content, curiosity doesn’t scale easily and cannot be commoditized. You could copy prompts but you can’t easily teach someone how to frame the right path of inquiry.

Media companies will increasingly have to choose what to own and what to co-pilot. Not every new venture needs to exist as an O&O product, nor does it have to exist within a centralized environment. Licensing out characters to various retailers, or allowing small merchants to use beloved characters in their own designs sought out by different... See more