Not sure I agree
Fascinating, sometimes radical views that I’m undecided between accepting and opposing.
Not sure I agree
There is also no powder, juice cleanse, ginger shot, or lifestyle gummy that will move the dial towards anything other than the growing mountain of plastic in the ocean. If it takes absolutely no work to consume, it will not save your life. Read that a few more times.
Why is Wellness So Fucking Annoying?
As someone who’s currently a part-timer in a supplement store, this hits fucking hard. I know it to be true. But I also know, from colleagues’ stories, that customers do come back happier. Sometimes their ailments have improved partly thanks to what they bought from us. So I don’t know where to stand.
If taking that multivitamin and before-bed gummies feels like it’s helping, it makes you “feel” stronger, or it “feels” like you’re having better sleep. Then who am I to tell you to stop, to reveal that maybe, only maybe, it’s something other than what you’re taking that’s helping. But then again, money rules the game, and people deserve transparency… It’s a hard one to answer.
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
When we describe work and life as things to be balanced, we are suggesting that work and life are at odds with each other. More time or energy allocated to work means less time and energy allocated to life.
This is obviously absurd, though. Work is just another part of life like family, community, food, fitness, creativity, travel, fun,... See more
Infinite Play • Work Life Balance is Impossible
Is it absurd?
On one side, I agree with fact that I deserve a job that makes me want to wake up for it instead of whatever office boring and toxic job expects me to do.
But at the same time, following your passion and chasing art-making as your full time income is also likely to ruin your art practice in the first place. I know a little about it because I had a passion for music and sound art as a teenager. Even just attending uni in my early twenties to focus on sound more than on anything else was enough to make that passion fade away almost entirely.
So I’m not too sure what the answer is really. I wish I didn’t have to work either but I also don’t want whatever creative pursuit brings me joy now to become my ft profession.
Educate your fucking client .
I see all too often designers, developers, animators and creatives say one of the following statements -
I see all too often designers, developers, animators and creatives say one of the following statements -
- Omg that client is an idiot
- Oh they just don’t get digital
- It’s too hard for them to understand
- They just requested XYZ, hahahaha
- They just asked all the pages of the website to be turned into PDFs (probably not this one,
Educate your fucking client? Educate your fucking client!
“I kept my idea a secret from anyone who could not directly help to move it forward. That was my gut instinct at the time, but it’s now one of the best pieces of advice I have to give. Ideas are the most vulnerable at the moment you have them; that’s also the time people are most inclined to run around seeking validation from everyone they know.
... See moreSeeing how an idea lands with friends you trust is not so bad after all
A rare meme that’s equal parts educational and entertaining. I wish I made it! Via @qvarantine.events on IG
Tatum Dooleysubstack.comSuper interesting take on “how” to name a work of art