Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
andrewmccluskey.com
We get along when we see the humanity in people who are different from us
people don't believe what they see; they see what they believe.
Angus Hervey • The End of Inevitability
Remind me Often and
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
– @aud@fire.asta.lgbt
DD Lounge – Friends of Dense Discovery
“Smart” suggestions don’t hit like a friend’s rec or the music blogs of years past.
Mark • Bandcamp Bets on Curation, Anthropic Pays Up, and New Music You Need
Any enterprising creator can build a business as a curator of products, monetizing her influence. Savvy businesses underpin this new economy. Flagship, one of my portfolio companies at Daybreak, allows anyone with a community to launch their own boutique storefront that showcases their favorite products. They earn ~20% of sales in exchange for... See more
Clicks & Clout: How We Seek Status In the Digital Age
Why do furniture designers keep designing new chairs? We know it's not to solve the problem of "sitting." The chair is simply the medium. The true goal is something bigger: to inspire, to broaden our understanding of what's possible, or express something unique about what it means to be alive today.
No more boring apps
While numerous social, economic, and political factors can fuel feelings of insignificance, including actual or perceived societal injustices, social isolation, economic disparity, and threats to one's status among others, all promote feelings of vulnerability. Such vulnerabilities activate a motivational state whereby individuals engage in... See more
Countering Extremism Directive — Mindbridge
it’s the isolation that leads to desire for connection which in turn drives the mimicry - which in turn provides the safe space
In needing to maximize hedonic value for as many people as possible, a healthy cultural ecosystem must produce artworks of both relatively simple and complex stimuli. Complex stimuli preferred by experienced and educated individuals are alienating to less experienced and educated individuals, and simple stimuli are not entertaining to more... See more
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
this speaks to the levle of complexity in track selection but perhaps more to the complexity of the contextual exchange - cmpare go with spirit to a single sentence summary with no description - significant difference level of complexity and input required