Amelia Desertsong
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Amelia Desertsong
Energy isn’t just a finite resource; it’s a form of currency, and most people spend it recklessly. You must be selective, even if it means people misunderstand you as “dysfunctional.” It’s not dysfunction, it’s prioritization. What you choose to give your attention to—your partner, your muses, your obscure curiosities—is what matters. Let other
... See moreResults from a recent paper titled ‘Keeping Your Mouth Shut: Spiraling Self-Censorship in the United States’ by the political scientists James L. Gibson and Joseph L. Sutherland is consistent with the findings from Cato/Yougov. They find that self-censorship has skyrocketed. In the 1950s, at the height of McCarthyism, 13.4 percent of Americans... See more
Why Dumb Ideas Capture Smart and Successful People
We cannot know when the time will be ripe for any particular idea. The task of creators is to keep options alive and open and not to be too constrained by the limitations of a present that may be suddenly transformed—by a depression, war, a dramatic collapse of political trust, or a pandemic.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
We’re mistakenly still using dusty indicators of success in a contemporary media environment.
Where are the awards celebrating the small and mighty? Who are the megaphones to draw more attention and financing toward marginalized creators? Where is the campaign reminding us that creativity dies in the shadows of reboots, and that merely making... See more
Where are the awards celebrating the small and mighty? Who are the megaphones to draw more attention and financing toward marginalized creators? Where is the campaign reminding us that creativity dies in the shadows of reboots, and that merely making... See more
Matt Klein • The Creator Paradox: Cultural Stasis Amidst Creative Surplus
Let’s be blunt, we’ve built a multi trillion dollar global economy on propositional knowledge. AI is eating that for lunch. What remains scarce, and therefore valuable, isn’t more information. It’s wisdom. Not as some mystical abstraction, but as a practical capacity: the integration of multiple ways of knowing, propositional, embodied, relational,... See more
Nicolas Michaelsen • The birth of the Wisdom Economy
AI is to humanity what an obnoxious overconfident know-it-all is to a classroom
“What is talkativeness? It is the result of doing away with the vital distinction between talking and keeping silent. Only some one who knows how to remain essentially silent can really talk--and act essentially. Silence is the essence of inwardness, of the inner life. Mere gossip anticipates real talk, and to express what is still in thought
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