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how the centre of national film in france is able to fund films in both box office hits and independent cinema — thinking about creativity and how it is encouraged in this system that doesn’t just fully favor high returns
Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of the Ogilvy advertising agency, famously told a story about an office building where people complained that an elevator took too long to arrive. Instead of spending $1 million to make the elevators 5 percent faster, they solved the problem by spending around $100 to add mirrors so people could look at themselves whi... See more
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity

i sent this screenshot from a steve jobs email to a friend & we ended up talking about how so many people plan so aggressively now that they leave no space for natural chaos.
you ask someone when they’re free & they hit you with “september 15th.” months out. especially in nyc, this is just…normal.
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björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
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