Alex Burns

@alexgraceburns

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the internet’s sprawling databases, real-time social-media networks, and globe-spanning e-commerce platforms have made almost everything immediately searchable, knowable, or purchasable—curbing the social value of sharing new things. Cultural arbitrage now happens so frequently and rapidly as to be nearly undetectable, usually with no extraordinary... See more

W. David Marx • The Diminishing Returns of Having Good Taste

this is why it’s so important to be able to connect disparate ideas

Because right now there is someone

Out there with

a wound in the exact shape

of your words.

Sean Thomas Dougherty • “Why Bother” by Sean Thomas Dougherty

Hidden from history: Archivists reveal the lives of famous, and not-so-famous, women

Byrd Pinkerton vox.com

Yesterday, ESPN reported that Ippei Mizuhara, the former translator who is accused of stealing $16 million from Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani to pay for his gambling addiction,has a connection to The Real Housewives of Orange County .

I really never thought this day would come. An ESPN headline about one of the biggest sports betting... See more

The Real Housewives of Sports Betting Scandals

it's ok to be curated

open.substack.com

Visualize Value

archivve.visualizevalue.com

It doesn’t matter how much we summarize, at some point, effort is required. More summaries won’t automatically lead to more understanding.

Seth Godin • The Cliffs Notes paradox

Make art, and while everyone is deciding what they think of it, make more art.” — Andy Warhol

Do a lot of work — do a huge volume of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week, or every month, you know you’re going to finish one story. Because it’s only by actually going through a volume of work that you are actually going to catch up and close that gap. And the work you’re making will be as good as your ambitions.