Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
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The ingredients of ‘good’ curation
I think great curation comes down to five key elements that span the processes of searching, selection and contextualizing:
I think great curation comes down to five key elements that span the processes of searching, selection and contextualizing:
- Preservation: Caring for, reviving or resurfacing things that might otherwise be lost or forgotten in archives or streams.
- Connection: Inspiring moments of surprise –, “I didn’t think of
Rachel Botsman • How to curate your life to find more meaning
Snackbar Studio Raised $2.15M Using SparkToro's Funding Model (and we're open sourcing the docs) - SparkToro
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One day I’ll be able to invest in Geraldine & Rand
This study identifies 33 as the tipping point for sonic stagnation , an age where artistic taste calcifies, increasingly deviating from contemporary works. But wait, there's more. Spotify data indicates that parents stray from the mainstream at an accelerated rate compared to empty nesters—a sort of "parent tax" on one's cultural relevancy.
When Do We Stop Finding New Music? A Statistical Analysis
Groovy visuals bro 🌀
Quirk-pilled branding is taking over, and we totally get it. There’s just something about a hand-drawn, imperfection-peppered, rule-breaking (dare we say, quirky?) design that reminds us of the humans behind brand 🫶
Have you seen anyone dropping these acid-esque visuals?... See more
instagram.comQuirk Pilled + Bit Core + Bold Minimalism - enjoying the evolution of deathtostock
I've witnessed this countless times. It's a huge anathema to bring up to founders looking for a quick way to build a community the fact that... humans have intrinsic motivation, and if you slap money on it, you might simply crowd that one out.
Trust less
Love this quote from Packy’s letter on Tuesday :-)
2.6.3 True artists produce works that are novel, complex, and ambiguous.
2.6.4 Novel, complex, and ambiguous artworks can always be simplified to make conventional art forms more stimulating for mainstream audiences.
2.6.4 Novel, complex, and ambiguous artworks can always be simplified to make conventional art forms more stimulating for mainstream audiences.
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
it is called the thought leader journey as perhaps it is the act of helping people move from the simple understanding to the more nuanced implementation - a book - a talk - a podcast - an article - a video - these are all ways of simplifying a construct or an idea to make it grokkable and accessible. Seems that people will still need help in applying the construct to their unique environment - hence workshop - on site consulting model
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