Andrew McCluskey

I hope the Next Big Thing in technology is naps, so that we just start shoving naps into everything, absolutely everything.

– @aud@fire.asta.lgbt

If we want to serve capitalism, we rush to evaluate things as product and weigh its value to a consumer as a purchase. If we want to understand our connection to the work and let the art serve us, that takes time.

just 12 hours of working memory training at age seven made children in Germany 16 percentage points more likely to enter the elite academic track .

In a completely ultra-poptimist world, there would be no available incentives to create novel, complex, or ambiguous works of art. We would have to rely on artist altruism or insanity.

First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid. The second kind is capable of indefinite extension: there are not only... See more