Amie Pollack
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Amie Pollack
I have just realized: I don’t want to see everything. I don’t want to know what people do until it’s a story, until the narrative has been constructed. Gatekeep the location, please. Tantalize me with a taste. Give me the tone, not the totality, until it’s ready.
On the Politics of Attention in 2025
Is it clear to you when a trend forecast is coming from amateurs versus the professionals?
ES: I mean, no. I think an amateur and a professional have kind of an equal chance at hitting the nail on the head. True flashes of cultural insight happen where you’re lucky enough to just put the right words against the cultural phenomenon at the right momen... See more
ES: I mean, no. I think an amateur and a professional have kind of an equal chance at hitting the nail on the head. True flashes of cultural insight happen where you’re lucky enough to just put the right words against the cultural phenomenon at the right momen... See more
SSENSE: Luxury fashion & independent designers
Some group of people must exist who are educated, aware, motivated, and at the bleeding edge of a field…who nonetheless have some spare hours in the workweek to spend innovating on something instead of slavishly executing a task.
It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
Gwern - The Anonymous Writer Who Predicted The Path to AI
youtube.comIn this way, print magazines free all sides of the media economy from some of the things people commonly dislike most about reading online. There’s no algorithmic intervention serving things up to readers, no paywalls that refuse to remember your password, no constant bids for your attention crowding the edges of your screen. They allow both publis... See more
Print Magazines Have a Revival in 2024 With High-End Readers ...
Great prompt for code