Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
andrewmccluskey.com
I’m increasingly convinced that the willingness to change your mind is the ultimate sign of intelligence. The most impressive people I know change their minds often in response to new information. It’s like a software update. The goal isn't to be right. It's to find the truth.
Sahil Bloomx.comchange your mind
“That the only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.”
Joshua Wolf Shenk • What Makes Us Happy?
“You’re getting worse at [your art], but you’re becoming a great marketer for a product which is less and less good”
Rebecca Jennings • Everybody Has to Self-Promote Now. Nobody Wants To.
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
The world is becoming increasingly divided. Media is separating rather than connecting us and people’s differences are seen as something to be hated rather than celebrated.
Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
My generic career advice for young people is that if at all possible, you should aim to work on something that no one has a word for. Spend your energies where we don’t have a name for what you are doing, where it takes a while to explain to your mother what it is you do. When you are ahead of language, that means you are in a spot where it is
... See moreNoah Smith • Interview: Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist
Exiting the Matrix Book — Nicole Paulus
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