Thought provoking
Talking heads come&go but if you write book you are AUTHORity.
Julian May • Intervention: A Novel
I often think of the Noah Smith quote: “Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.”
Clicks & Clout: How We Seek Status In the Digital Age
Russians understand Americans’ single color “blue” as two distinct shades – light blue and dark blue.
What is Culture? Part Four: Conventions
Who knew ;-p
People will, if given the opportunity, read a 5,000-word essay on their phone. And they’ll do it right there, with their head still on the pillow. In those cases, it’s not terrible; it’s wonderful. And if you can capture that, if you can direct that attention to things worth attending to, it’s incredibly powerful. So if you’re a writer, why not go... See more
How Erik Hoel Went From Professor to Newsletter Creator with 40,000 Subscribers - Growth in Reverse
The Ballroom and the Bureaucracy
theindex.media
Artists are agents of invention who attempt to change the dominant conventions (although many individuals operating under the rubric of "artist" have much more pedestrian and commercial goals.)
1.9.1 The avant-garde exposes, devalues, and alters existing conventions in search of new cultural arrangements that could provide new aesthetic... See more
1.9.1 The avant-garde exposes, devalues, and alters existing conventions in search of new cultural arrangements that could provide new aesthetic... See more
Culture: An Owner's Manual • Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
Are Thought Leaders artists?
Are Curators the new Critics?
rev model is paid subs on substack + patreon - there’ds plenty of opportunity in the written word
In a completely ultra-poptimist world, there would be no available incentives to create novel, complex, or ambiguous works of art. We would have to rely on artist altruism or insanity.
Culture: An Owner's Manual • Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
Shocker huh!