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The result of this cycle is a visual culture that feels polished but strangely hollow. Aesthetics are optimised to perform, but they rarely surprise, provoke, or move. What once signalled a point of view has become a default setting. You can scroll through campaigns from global fashion houses to emerging labels and find them indistinguishable,... See more
Zoe • The Reference Trap
“Admit it. You aren’t like them.
You’re not even close.
You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes.
But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the normal people as they go about their automatic... See more
You’re not even close.
You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes.
But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the normal people as they go about their automatic... See more
mymind • Tweet
If there’s valuable cultural knowledge that we are looking to gain, what unique valuable knowledge do we have that we can also share back? How can we open source research, mentorship, education, connections?
We're trying to claim wisdom without being willing to be transformed by it first. We're trying to guide others through territories we've only read about in books or heard about in podcasts.
But real wisdom keepers?
They carry the marks of their initiations. You can smell the smoke on them from the fires they've walked through.
Their words carry... See more
But real wisdom keepers?
They carry the marks of their initiations. You can smell the smoke on them from the fires they've walked through.
Their words carry... See more
Evan Meyer • The World Doesn't Need More Thought Leaders
By over-compensating and over-reaching your role as a “teacher,” an entrepreneur, you delude yourself into thinking that you are wise, but in reality, you do not have the depth, the perspective, or the experience to fill the words that you speak with any real vitality, any magic.
They are dead words, platitudes, shared for the sake posing as a “leader,” when really you are just as lost as everybody else.
Ever wondered how some brands manage to sweep you off your feet and into their own little universe? It’s not just about selling products anymore - it’s about creating a world you can’t help but dive into, get lost in, and totally fall for and the best brands do it so well; Glossier, Heinz, Rhode, Gisou and Erewhon to name a few…
Grace Garrick • What Exactly is a Brand Universe?
Today, we want to kill time.
Everything has to be immediate.
And I think if man loses his relationship with time, he becomes crazy.
–– Christophe Lemaire on time - INTERVIEW : "Be Your Clothes Friends" - Christophe Lemaire
