Culture
In just under one generation, we moved from appreciating albums as cohesive works to consuming individual tracks, and then to music becoming reduced to muzak: background noise for gaming, viral videos, or endless scrolling. Disappearing is music as an art in its own right, which commands sustained attention and deep engagement. A song’s success is... See more
Default Friend • No, Culture is Not Stuck
Successful artists, musicians and other creatives have a similar dilemma. Their fans want more of what they did to reach their success. They want them to play their old songs, paint the same style paintings, and make the same kind of great movies. But in order to keep improving, to maintain their reputation as someone creative, the artists need to... See more
Kevin Kelly • Hill-Making vs Hill-Climbing
Loving what you have gives you everything you need — because contentment isn’t complacency, it’s mastery. It’s the rare art of extracting infinity from the finite, of sipping morning coffee like it’s a Roman feast and holding a familiar hand like it’s a divine revelation. We have become addicted to upgrades and insatiable scrolls, then gratitude is... See more
Tamara • Tamara on Substack
Shopping is no longer fun though when every single product, down to water bottles and toothpaste, has some sort of status points attached to it . Instead of simply spending money on the stuff you like, you start thinking about what every purchase says about you
Viktoriia Vasileva • Have We Reached Peak Brand?
Nearly all of my most fulfilling and exciting experiences, those that have made me feel part of a community or moment, have happened in person. I think the feeling of being surrounded by likeminded people is unparalleled.
MØRNING • Q̾u̾i̾c̾k̾ ̾F̾i̾r̾e̾: Creation Anxiety
Robin Sloan: stock and flow. Robin lays out (in 2010!) the concept of stock and flow:
Flow is the feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that reminds people you exist.
... See moreStock is the durable stuff. It’s the content you produce that’s as interesting in two months (or two years) as it is today. It’s what
“Stock and flow” is an economic concept that writer Robin Sloan has adapted into a metaphor for media: “Flow is the feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that remind people you exist. Stock is the durable stuff. It’s the content you produce that’s as interesting in two months (or two years) as it is
... See moreAustin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
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