Alex Burns
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Alex Burns
DeLong and Hofstadter both found great beauty in what the latter called strange loops—occasions when mathematical systems or works of art or pieces of music fold back upon themselves. M. C. Escher’s drawings are a great, overt example of this. Take his famous picture of two hands drawing each other; it’s impossible to say where it starts or ends.... See more
David Chang • David Chang’s Unified Theory of Deliciousness
Part of what makes fall so accessible to Gen Z is that you can create content about it from inside your bedroom, with a string of orange LEDs, a hot beverage, and a few pumpkin throw pillows. Summer doesn’t offer the same accessibility: Conjuring summer on the feed means vacations (costly) or bathing-suit content (not everyone’s thing). Fall is a... See more
Kathryn Jezer-Morton • Welcome Back, Social-Media Fall
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
one of my favorite Ken Liushort stories reflects on the narrator’s attempt to remember his departed wife. He writes:
I can’t remember the dress she wore or what she had bought; I can’t remember what we did for the rest of that afternoon; I can’t re-create the exact timbre of her voice or the precise shapes of her features, the lines at the corners... See more
🌻 statement of purpose
it's ok to be curated
open.substack.com
In early interviews with Whaley, he often talked about the internet being the magic ingredient to MSCHF: “Life is too short and the internet is too big to not make what you want.”
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
make websites cool again!!! pt 2. // visual diary/creative inspiration #017:
I think our brains have gotten so used to the homogeneity of the design of platforms - built on efficiency, uniformity, ease… that to see stuff like this, un-templated containers of content, is such a delight and surprise. website as art. art... See more
Arrianesubstack.comArm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.... See more
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Specific knowledge is knowledge you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else and replace you.
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Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.
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Building specific knowledge will
Eric Jorgenson • Sep 10 UNDERSTANDING HOW WEALTH IS CREATED
from the radio producer Ira Glass, on feeling disappointed by your own work:
All of us who do creative work...get into it because we have good taste. But there’s a gap. For the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making...It’s not that great. It’s really not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but... See more