Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
andrewmccluskey.com
We all know about Netflix, we all know about Spotify and other media categories, and we also know what it has done to some industries... The music industry has lost, in the digital transformation, approximately 50 percent of its overall revenue pool.
— Markus Dohle, CEO, Penguin Publishing House
Elle Griffin • No One Buys Books
Yep - nothing like living through it ;-p
Rehumanization: Putting the ‘human’ in human rights
hopebased.substack.com
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.
Culture: An Owner's Manual • Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
Shocker huh!
The #1 Custom Bedtime Story Generator and Narrator
sleepytales.aiTools and Things that disappoint me
I don’t know how to feel about it this - on one hand it seems interesting and probably more engaging for the kids - yet on the other it feels like another tool that’s creating distance between the humans. The memories of reading to my kids - making up stories for them etc is a treasure - to have it outsourced to an ai just - feels - - weird?!
Firefighter Zen: A Field Guide to Thriving in Tough Times by Hersch Wilson
app.thestorygraph.com
Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person’s capacity to act.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
how many people you touched > how many people you reached
Can you be scientific and spiritual?
bigthink.com
The most human part of humanity is not our animal instincts nor our computer-like rationality, but our mutual social creation of meanings and values around arbitrary choices.