sparks
Ideas from George Mack:
1. Subprime audience - A creator optimising for size of audience and ending up with a junk audience. They end up producing content they themselves wouldn’t consume.
2. The forgetting paradox - Wordle outperformed every headline in society's consciousness for 2022. All the news everyone was worried outlasted by a novelty game..
... See moreIf you’re bored with the current landscape of trending apps and templated content, I beg you to make something different. there must be a counterweight.
Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test
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the way to get outside myself was to go further in
Ava • a blog is a space for dreaming
Stop chasing miracles.
Miracles, by definition, are things that happen outside of your control.
Miracles, by definition, are things that happen outside of your control.
Sherry Ning • How to be Insightful
Bob Dylan asks Cohen: "How long did it take you to write Hallelujah?”
“A couple of years” - Cohen replied.
It was a lie — it took him 7 years but he wanted to play it down
Cohen then asked Bob Dylan: “How long did it take you to write Just Like a Woman?”
Dylan replied: “Fifteen minutes”
“A couple of years” - Cohen replied.
It was a lie — it took him 7 years but he wanted to play it down
Cohen then asked Bob Dylan: “How long did it take you to write Just Like a Woman?”
Dylan replied: “Fifteen minutes”
High Agency
there’s no "one way” to do things
Jesper tells a story about how he is currently working on designing a new type of organ. In preparation for this, he’s been playing an organ he bought, it in house… for the past 5 years.
Shortly later in conversation Dylan asks, “do you believe in user research?” To which Jesper immediately says, “uhh… no.”
MY BROTHER, DID YOU NOT HEAR THIS MAN’S PRO... See more
Shortly later in conversation Dylan asks, “do you believe in user research?” To which Jesper immediately says, “uhh… no.”
MY BROTHER, DID YOU NOT HEAR THIS MAN’S PRO... See more
Hipcityreg on the conversation between Dylan (Figma) and Jesper (Teenage Engineering)
Sam Kriss is great