learnings
In the post-hipster era, you listened to what Spotify told you to listen to. If you read a book, it was because the precise pattern of blobby pastel-coloured shapes on its cover contained coded instructions to TikTok’s algorithm that sent it zooming to the top of your feed. Your tastes and preferences were decided for you by vast crystalline machin... See more
Sam Kriss • All the Nerds Are Dead - By Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge
When an adult Mack sits in her childhood kitchen and watches Lily, her daughter-but-not-quite, skin a fish, we know what she is thinking, what memory is running through her mind. No words are necessary. Mack clasps her sister’s hand in gratitude, in grief, in love, and in remembrance. The record continues with Lily, who is loved enough to be taught... See more
Each of Us Is the Proof | Are.na Editorial
by Yeaye, from “Each of Us Is the Proof”
One's ability to articulate an idea always lags behind the understanding of the idea, and the understanding of an idea often lags behind the embodiment in which it is first given life. It can take a surprising amount of time to come to understand what a prototype is trying to "say", and longer still to say it oneself.
-Bret Victor
“creativity under capitalism is not creative at all because it only produces more of the same,” as Oli Mould puts it in Against Creativity
Cortney Cassidy • A soft manifesto
The ongoing collapse of advertising revenue within the creative media landscape certainly exacerbates the issue, with publications forced to rely on reader subscriptions, sponsored content, or pay-for-play coverage to fund their platforms – two out of three of which limit any negative feedback almost entirely.
“I picked a bad time to become a critic” – Elizabeth Goodspeed on the collapse of design critique
by Elizabeth Goodspeed.
[the industry is now a positive feedback loop].
To the earth, millennia-old etchings might count as ephemera left behind by an ephemeral people, who were once thought to be extinct only to be reborn centuries later.
Ephemera: A Rock Collection
from ‘Ephemera: A Rock Collection,’ by Michelle Santiago Cortés.
And while AI might be changing how some work is done, it can't replicate you—your taste, your judgment, and your ability to create with empathy, intuition and soul. What it can do is act like a mini brainstorming team—helping you work faster, pitch better, or test new ideas. It's a chance to level up. To become a creative generalist and embrace new... See more