The artist and the inner retreat
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The artist and the inner retreat
After the Creator Economy
collect.metalabel.xyzThe great process squeeze: How efficiency bias is choking the music industry
Devon Hansenparacosm.substack.com
The primary modern manifestation is what I’ve previously labeled waldenponding — a fearful retreat from the technologically mediated modes of rich connection that would enable such maximal collectivization. The fetish object of the waldenponder is the individual brain doing “deep” work, with minimal collectivization, and maximal egoism.
Substack • Graph Minds
but the real need is for a genuine sort of aloneness in which inner signals can make themselves heard.
William Bridges • Transitions (40th Anniversary Edition): Making Sense of Life's Changes
Now I’m trying really hard to slow down. Pay complete attention. Lately I’ve internalized there’s something so sacred about focus, rather than constantly deliberating between monitor screens and plans and side hustles. Depth rather than breadth. In a world that is increasingly accelerating — social media eyeballs and immediate gratification and a p
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