Brian Thomas Clark

In the end, shame has its purpose, of course. It acts as the great course-corrector, with a kind of redemptive electricity that forever nudges us towa

The Silicon Valley version of taste is instrumental. Taste as moat. Taste as competitive advantage. The ability to discern what will make the most mon

By all means, building a bench of inspiration beyond what’s on your algorithm is a great thing. But stepping back from the machine entirely assumes a

Now on to the good news! You can laugh at the way the tech world employs the word “taste” and still believe human discernment is the bottleneck. You c

Critical ignoring is the ability to choose what to ignore and where to invest one’s limited attentional capacities. Critical ignoring is more than jus

By contrast, when “everything is at our fingertips” — when art is compressed into the same omnipresent and infinite digital non-time as every random p

All this should seem obvious, which is most troubling: the lack of communal love — the indifference we have towards neighbors, strangers — is not only

In the end, shame has its purpose, of course. It acts as the great course-corrector, with a kind of redemptive electricity that forever nudges us towa