Brandon Marcus

As Larkin says, “someone will forever be surprising / A hunger in himself to be more serious.”

People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different f

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Our humanity has intrinsic value, yes.

But only when it’s scarce and relevant does it have economic value.

Yes, all your other ‘human’ skills will continue to matter. But they will command economic value only when tightly bundled with curiosity, curation, and judgment

Judgment is the ability to make the final call, weighing all pros and cons, and effectively bearing all risk associated with the outcome. Judgment is not simply intuition, it’s the ability to make choices knowing you’re also on the hook for the consequences.

Judgment rises in importance as environments are less stable and more ambiguous. Judgment b... See more

This is curation - where taste and context exert narrative control

Context is more about interpretation. The ability to create meaning in a certain context by understanding the context and applying the right interpretation to it.