sparks
by sari · updated 6d ago
sparks
sari added 4mo ago
manage your energy > manage your time
H/t Jim Loehr
sari added 5mo ago
- When all artists are confined to the same handful of platforms to promote their work, only the top 1% get a fair slice of them. And when all listeners are dispersed over an infinite array of small-scale, pop-up, artist-first solutions, no one gets a pleasant digital music experience. The only solution is stratification at scale.
from Article
sari added 5mo ago
aggregation is convenient for consumers, bad for the long tail of creators.
first time I hear the term “stratification at scale” - seems to suggest we can avoid flattening by building platforms that cater to different segments and preferences. (ie Sublime can be the platform for creative thinkers) Paraphrasing Francis Ford Coppola: The best thing about making movies is that they’re collaborative, and the worst thing about them is that they’re collaborative
Applies to everything in life.
sari added 9mo ago
- The self is not something you can set out looking for; it reveals itself gradually through the choices you make.
We must cease to concern ourselves with our unique suffering – whether we are happy or sad, fortunate or unfortunate, good or bad – and give up our neurotic and debilitating journeys of self-discovery. Art of true value requires, like a j
... See morefrom Two Kinds of Introspection by www.henrikkarlsson.xyz
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- You should expect that (if you're lucky!) your spouse—and maybe one good friend—will read and understand your work, but that as a general rule: the people who are closest to you will care and understand the least. Their very familiarity breeds a kind of incomprehension of… Show more
sari added 9mo ago
good reminder. no reason to expect your fam/friends to understand your work.
Sick of being a digital serf
sari added 9mo ago
The greatest minds are not products of thinking, but miracles in feeling
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