The death of craft
That labor amounts to constant self-promotion in the form of cheap trend-following, ever-changing posting strategies, and the nagging feeling that what you are really doing with your time is marketing, not art. Under the tyranny of algorithmic media distribution, artists, authors — anyone whose work concerns itself with what it means to be human — ... See more
Rebecca Jennings • Everybody Has to Self-Promote Now. Nobody Wants To.
help knowledge workers rationalize their own work before it gets rationalized for them. To help them automate and systematize the simplistic tasks, so they can dedicate increasingly greater amounts of time and attention to the frontier of creativity.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
As more human jobs become assisted, automated, or replaced by artificial intelligence, we must spend our hours where we have a competitive advantage over machines: developing new ideas, expressing old things in new ways, innovating process, and crafting the story that infuses our creations with meaning .
Scott Belsky • Creating in The Era of Creative Confidence
Why are we seeing a global homogenizing of culture across every dimension that counts? Why has Hollywood become so creatively bankrupt that nobody bothers watching that oh-so-predictable-52nd sequel to a superhero movie? Why have pop songs become so objectively similar? Why is everyone following the same formula for their posts on Instagram and hum... See more
invencion.com • Culture & the Algorithm.
When I lost my job, I learned to code. Now AI doom mongers are trying to scare me all over again | Tristan Cross
theguardian.com
The future doesn’t lie in the tool itself but in how it becomes an extension of our uniqueness. It depends on our ability to delegate to AI tasks that don’t require our essence, avoiding the risk of losing ourselves in abundance. This won’t be an era of mass content but of scarcity, where each custom agent embodies a unique vision and nu