media diet

collection of things i’m reading, watching, listening to that spark something

J. Danielle

Going Solo

Zoe Scaman zoescaman.substack.com

Seek Failures Early

Cedric Chin commoncog.com

African American Poetry: Alain Locke, "Negro Youth Speaks" (1925)

Alain Locke scalar.lehigh.edu

🟧 Aggregation theory

Kyle Chayka onethingnewsletter.substack.com

We got Digital Minimalism wrong

James Bedford cultivate.is

The Mathematics of Creativity | Why Genius Follows a Formula

youtube.com

Quantity builds quality, law of large numbers
Zips law of creativity
Creativity is combinatorial by nature
Skill follows a exponential curve
Chaos and order, complexity theory, creativity emerges at the edge of chaos

Avant-Garde and Kitsch

It explores the contrasting concepts of avant-garde and kitsch in culture, examining their societal implications, artistic significance, and the impact of industrialization on cultural value and experience.

cpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com

Essay | What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up?

Rachel Wolfe wsj.com

James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society

Maria Popova themarginalian.org