Andrew Boardman

Maintenance is a spiritual pursuit. Every action that takes us further from understanding how the world works, no matter the economic rationale for doing so, is one where we lose a sense of who we are.

Whatever it is you’re trying to change in your life, find one or two things — books, podcasts, youtubers, whatever — that genuinely resonate and go deep on those instead of wide on everything.

I’m not saying AI won’t eventually deliver genuine innovation. It might. But right now, what we have is a technology that excels at replication — at doing what humans already do, faster and cheaper — without expanding what’s possible. And an economy built on the assumption that replication equals innovation is an economy built on sand.

Inside creative organisations, the most dangerous phrase in the room is often the most unremarkable: “This worked last time.”

It’s obvious that artistic movements need artists. My claim is that they also need critics. Critics help name, describe, and contextualize movements.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Plato; Or, The Philosopher"

1. THERE IS NO SHORT GAME, ONLY LONG GAME. SHORT GAME IS TOURISM. LONG GAME IS LIVING THERE.