Relationship with Time

Finally, to repeat one more time: productivity in the wrong direction isn’t worth anything at all. Think more about what to work on.

culture is non-stationary—it changes, mutates, refuses to hold still. As Emmet puts it, models “actually get dumber over time as you use them,” because they are frozen snapshots of a past cultural moment. What they capture brilliantly is instantly outdated; what they recombine convincingly is subtly decayed.