weekly Go Flip Yourself

• about culture cycles

• about the danger of caring more about the past rather than the future [are you holding rights? or are you creating what’s next?]

• the battle between macro-culture and micro-culture — and while the former is declining, the latter might thrive

• “you can’t reduce things to formula”

• the difference between art and entertainment

• we need mind-expanding experiences

• there is a real danger in going full-passive consumption; which is bad for the culture

• “i spend more time reading than i do writing” => “any process you have in the world, your output depends on your input”

• fluid intelligence versus crystallized intelligence

• now being similar to 1800’s: back then, power went from the industrialists to the creative people

• you get luckier if you force yourself out of your comfort zone

• what Internet allowed is: direct contact with your audience, your people

What I’ve come to realize is that while our potential identities are infinite, our energy is not. Energy put into one identity is energy taken from another. To be Very Online is to be Never Offline. To become infinite is to become infinitesimal somewhere else.

One of the things I’ve discovered with buildings, particularly your so-called “high-road buildings” is they can become more amazing as time goes on. As that process proceeds, they are buildings that come to be loved. And once they’re loved, they’re safe, by and large. So the quality of mastery can be in the quality of the materials and crafting of a thing that invites that kind of caring, that will keep the thing going.