Content
If magazines were containers for taste, the creators of the creator economy are vessels.
Daisy Alioto • The Taste Economy

“You have the whole history of all recorded music at your fingertips for no money, and that devalues music in general. It doesn’t properly express the work that goes into it, and it certainly doesn’t express how essential music is to the human experience.”

Content creators, by definition, don’t care about what they’re creating but only about the fact that they’re creating something. If you are a creator and you care, you should never think of yourself as a “content creator”
How to Survive as a Human Creator in the AI Era
Content
Don’t create the content you think people want to consume, create the content you want to consume. If it interests you, you’ll make it interesting to others.
23 Truths I Wish I Knew at 23
There is so much mystique around the creative life. It’s fetishized and coveted and seen as mysterious even by the people who inhabit it. We have a cultural script that says: There’s too much consumption, not enough creation! If you want to be a [tasteful/interesting/admirable/happy] person, you should make more things. But then also: Social media ... See more
Ava • Making Things Is Hard
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