Andrew McCluskey

Your success here will depend entirely on how successfully you can tell stories, and how successfully other people can repeat those stories, both to themselves and others.Your North Star here has to be: are other people retelling this story successfully?Port cities around the world are more similar to each other than they are to their inland... See more

As we grow accustomed to the convenience of shuffling a generated playlist, we forget that discovering music is an active exercise.

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

Complex cultural ecosystems with many sub-units provide inherent sources of novelty for the mainstream — e.g. minority cultures, subcultures, and countercultures create new conventions with potential to provide stimulation to mainstream individuals.

it seems that the connectivity the Internet has given us is predominantly vapid. Deep seeded consideration for our planet, each other and the miracle of existence is replaced by TikTok trends and AI companions.