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And if communities are spaces for belonging, cohorts are spaces for becoming.
Brian Dell • LF11 - Cohort Futures
an angsty mismatch between personal expectation and economic reality
Opinion | Everything Is for Sale Now. Even Us. (Published 2018)
Vibes, once warm and fuzzy, were now seismic tectonic plates beneath the feet of culture.
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Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insight without endangering the security of our prior assumptions.
– Robert Grudin, The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation
Sycophancy has a kind of momentum. Like any form of groupthink, it is part conformity, part self-preservation. The first person to grovel is undignified, but each subsequent act of cowardice allows the next person to acquiesce more easily.
The only sensible way to improve your writing is by echoing the work of other writers. Good artists copy and great artists steal quotes from Picasso.
Maggie Appleton • The Finest Narrative Non-Fiction Essays
maintains avant-garde pretensions despite being entirely milquetoast.
Sean Monahan • INTERNET COOL
Oftentimes, innovation is just another word for cultural espionage.
Sean Monahan • INTERNET COOL
she crystallized a cultural mood