Authenticity
What does it mean for something to be 'authentic'?
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Authenticity
Just before he stepped down as CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos wrote his final shareholder letter. He closed it out with a section he titled, “Differentiation is Survival and the Universe Wants You to be Typical.”
He prefaced his own thoughts with a quote from The Blind Watchmaker,… Show more
“I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.”
–Frank Ghery
On the other side of creative aliveness, there is flatness. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately, about what happens when our worlds go flat. The dynamism we lose, the emotional urges we suppress, the original impulses we become too afraid to nurture.
On the running path recently, a song came on. It was by Eminem. His music is not my choice for ... See more
On the running path recently, a song came on. It was by Eminem. His music is not my choice for ... See more
Leandra Medine Cohen • Notes from the running path
Leandra on anti-flatness
make decisions using our own creative values, not “industry standards.” We design our work and worlds from our best intentions, not our worst fears.
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“[On one end, you have] auto-tune that perfectly puts music into tune…which is sort of flawless and faultless. [In contrast, the other side] is clumsy, awkward, crude and unfinished things that we all actually like in the right context.
The reason we like the Velvet Underground is not for their gloss. It's for their roughness. For the feeling we ha... See more
The reason we like the Velvet Underground is not for their gloss. It's for their roughness. For the feeling we ha... See more
Brian Eno on why we’re drawn to the new and authentic