drink from different fountains

most stuff out there and online is junk and you know. also add another collection for reading and exploring concepts for longer than a single article or video

Jonathan Quaade

The clues area actually all there for you, the enthusiast, to find. Go to the place, meet the people, live there. The Gatekeeper is the reminder that culture requires labor and that access is not a right, it must be earned.

the democratization of everything as the amateurization of everything.

I don’t what to do? How should I choose on what to do next?

Follow your innate curiosity. Paul Graham → Curiosity is the best guide. Your curiosity never lies and knows what’s worth paying attention to.

Related to isabel mind min talking about your heart and your brain that your heart will take in you direction your logical brain can’t
And similar to leland maschemeyer of and diagram of returning to the center. Follow the thread and bring it back to the center

(I told someone recently that the specific joy of stalking someone else’s Spotify account has been lost as more and more playlists are generated by the platform. It’s the opposite of intimacy, isn’t it? To stalk an algorithm? Like climbing a tree to look into your crush’s window and realizing someone else got there first...please don’t do this.)

inspiration is an emotion a reference makes you feel a certain way — you study the reference to understand what exactly about it makes you feel then you experiment to recreate that emotion anything else is just copying

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Midgley specifically challenged Descartes' famous thought experiment where he sits by his fireplace and questions everything he can possibly doubt, including the existence of other people. Descartes concludes that the only thing he can know with absolute certainty is that he is thinking (and therefore exists) - the famous "Cogito, ergo sum."

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Claude

But when I am served videos by someone who has been anointed with this stardom I don’t feel like I am inhabiting someone else’s taste but, rather, the taste of the algorithm.