Brett Olson
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Brett Olson
Your goal should be to look smart at the end of your journey, you don’t have to look smart at every step of your journey
Erik Torenberg • #07 - Erik Torenberg thinks we should build career moats
Cultivating intellectual humility by embracing criticism, finding joy in being wrong, and accelerating learning through public vulnerability
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And especially like now that I've gotten to like a larger scale, I have like a professional army of people telling me when I'm stupid.
It can be very frightening and it's very tempting to like retreat back into like making foolproof arguments and like filling in all the holes.
But that slows down the rate of learning and to just be willing to like,
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The art of the past no longer exists as it once did. Its authority is lost. In its place there is a language of images. What matters now is who uses that language for what purpose. This touches upon questions of copyright for reproduction, the ownership of art presses and publishers, the total policy of public art galleries and museums. As usually
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that anything could be validated as long as one could find the correct strategies for getting and holding the attention of the media. In art, this became aggravated by the sudden rush of art investment – not yet the mania it would become in the seventies, but large enough nearly to abolish, for a time, the idea that an artist’s thought and
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