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The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex
How can someone with no experience outperform an entire industry of experts?
When a field becomes self-referential - when its best minds are trained by its most established models, it starts to seal itself off. Ideas are recycled. Benchmarks are internal. Innovation turns iterative, not foundational.
This is optimization - but it’s also insularity. ... See more
When a field becomes self-referential - when its best minds are trained by its most established models, it starts to seal itself off. Ideas are recycled. Benchmarks are internal. Innovation turns iterative, not foundational.
This is optimization - but it’s also insularity. ... See more
Rachel Campbell • What The Expert Misses
If your work is in any sense “creative” – if you’re a writer, designer, therapist, artist, editor, coach, architect, podcaster, or much else besides – there’s a good chance you’ve spent recent months worried that AI might be coming for your job. (You might be excited by AI’s potential, too; the two aren’t mutually exclusive.) But something about th
... See moreThose who work bullshit jobs are often surrounded by honor and prestige; they are respected as professionals, well paid, and treated as high achievers - as the sort of people who can be justly proud of what they do. Yet secretly they are aware that they have achieved nothing; they feel they have done nothing to earn the consumer toys with which the... See more
Jack Raines • On Meaningless Careers
Similarly, I wonder whether the creator economy, as it matures, will resemble less of its original promise (a way for people to do the things they love), in favor of a “creator industrial complex.” Part of the problem is that creativity comes in fits and starts, and can’t always be tamed into a predictable routine. If you’re obligated to create som... See more
Nadia Asparouhova • The creator economy
For people with a professional outlook, it's hard to understand how something that isn't professionally produced could affect them.