Third space connection
If you haven’t got a thing, you need an excuse. Most social occasions are just chats around an excuse. If you ask people to come over to your house and talk, they’ll think you’re strange. If you say it’s for a dinner party or poker or Grand Theft Auto, they’re perfectly happy.
Russell Davies • Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share
One of the benefits of producing consistent creative work is that it comes with a narrative network effect: The more people who know and love the story of an object, the stronger the tie to that object becomes. For a brand like MSCHF, success might not always come from money—sometimes, it comes from products that reinforce how they want to... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
culture.ghost.io
gathering in person is a profoundly inefficient affair but it is a profoundly human affair. we won't be able to measure what it means to be here. we traded off the efficiency of our screens for humanity. we came for a vibe.
Geoff Lewis • Special Edition of Temp Check: Recorded Live @websummit Nov 2, 2021
The goal is to make people feel like they’re a part of something — and like you’re part of their identity. And the payoff — if all goes well — is in the form of fierce loyalty, word-of-mouth promotion, organic curiosity and attention, higher lifetime customer value and share of spend, lower acquisition costs, etc.
Dan Frommer • Outdoor Voices shows community only gets you so far
In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis ) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation.
Sublime (philosophy)
Brackett reports that when you ask people in public where they are on the mood meter, almost everybody will say they are having positive emotions. When you ask people in confidential surveys where they are, 60 to 70 percent will put themselves on the negative-emotion side of the mood meter. That result is haunting, because it suggests that many of
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