Crear + Consumir -

“… you don't get your best performances by trying harder. When you see the guy who wins the race, he usually jogs out of it waving to the crowd, feeling good. The people who look the worst come in after the top guy.”[2] – Ryan Hall

When you wait, you lose momentum. And momentum is incredibly powerful because when you’re inspired, you act—and you do it with enthusiasm.

There are two types of people making stuff: content creators and artists .

Both are creative. But there is one distinct difference: Content creators are willing to trade control for speed. Artists are not.

• Content creators are willing to trade control for speed. Creators are trying to get a good-enough cut, a performant-enough ad, or an

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The birth of “cool”

According to Todd Pezzuti, Caleb Warren and Jinjie Chen in their study Cool People, the earliest roots of cool lie in the African diaspora, in West African ideas like itutu (Yoruba for “coolness”), which refers to a state of spiritual composure and grace under pressure. Confronting the brutal realities of slavery and Jim Crow,... See more

Gollum is both employee and consumer. A prosumer locked in a death embrace with a product. He is a raving fan.

Gollumization: consumerism is not about humans consuming products. It is about products consuming humans.

We must realize the real void is on the other side of the equation: the void most of us feel is a creative void—we’re so caught up in our consumeristic mindset we forget our inherent need to create. The solution, then, is to create more and consume less—if we spend more time creating, we will spend less time consuming: This is how we move the... See more