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the influence that we draw from existing work is not an analysis of pixels, but an emotional response to how that work makes us feel.

View Profile • The A.I. Lie

Current new-crop of AI assistants is uninspired. "What if we made like a little guy who summarizes your meetings? Or this other guy to schedule your dentist appointment" We need to aim higher. Emotion sculptors and dream architects, reality-weavers, dimensional navigators

Katan'Hya

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Meaning and point of view are essential for anything worthy of our attention. It’s about a sense of purpose and personality that goes beyond mere information transmission. It’s about paying attention, and not outsourcing observation. In a world increasingly populated by auto-generated content, the combination of substance and style will rise above

Carly Ayres • On substance with style

Takeaways from Jerry Seinfeld on Tim Ferriss:

To survive in comedy you have to be a writer
“As any writer can tell you it’s 95% re-write”
“I think I could solve just about anyone’s life, I don’t care what you do, with weight training and transcendental meditation” Jerry Seinfeld
“If you could take your experiences and ask to trade them in, the las

lasting culture cannot be automated and meaningful creativity cannot be manufactured

“At the same time, art cannot be understood in terms of purpose. As the sculptor Charles Ray has said, art is “for absolutely nothing.” To make, or experience, art is to enter a kind of free zone; it slows us down, places us in some epistemological estuary, takes us into the wild. We make art from our flaws, fragilities, perversities, from our need

The only way out from this rat race I can see is to re-create a safe space. When you are no longer consumed by the worry that is career sustenance and growth, at least a subset of folks might choose to work on what they think is important. Signalling will never fully die of course, but perhaps we can dampen it.

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Rohit Krishnan • On Thinkers and Doers - By Rohit - Strange Loop Canon

The answer is not a new tool or technology. The answer is a new spirit. The world does not need more media, it needs New Media.

Yancey Strickler • Formulary for New Media

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