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One of the saddest things to me is the cultural decay cycle in our new age of virality.
Sub-cultures that took years to form through meaning are essentially destroyed within days or weeks.
If you think about it, a niche culture builds their own language, symbols, aesthetics or rituals to... See more
Tobias van Schneiderx.com“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.”
The Master and His Emissary Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
It's so frustrating when you have good taste, but your taste exceeds your abilities.
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
If you are immune to boredom, if you can get drunk staring into the flames of a fire, or lost in reverie walking by yellow-lit windows, or experience a secret pleasure from staring into space, if you can be by yourself but not lonely, simply alone, then you’ve got it.
Tommy Dixon • How to end your extremely online era
Tommy Dixon, On ‘How to end your extremely online era’
AI tends to just tell you what it thinks you want to hear. If you get a bunch of feedback on a draft and then you just reply to the feedback and say, “That feedback is wrong,” the AI will say, “You’re absolutely right. Here’s the opposite of that feedback.” You can’t trust it to give you a proper review because it can’t believe the things it’s... See more
Sari Azout • I Don't Care if a Robot Wrote It. If It's Good, It's Good.
Unfortunately something many individuals need to hear - you cannot review a piece of human art with a non-human tool.
Former SNL writer (and general comedic genius) Jim Downey’s brilliant trick for getting performers to say the lines the way he wanted.
Max Nussenbaumsubstack.comThe thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark
Miles Johnstonx.com