Divya
@divsdoo
Divya
@divsdoo
It’s about seeing the weight someone carries... and choosing to stand under it with them anyway.
Storytelling was important before when pitching an idea, but now it’s essential.
“The pursuit of unlocking technological breakthroughs must be done with cultural resonance in mind, not just for the sake of the technology itself”.
Do not become or end up with someone like this
“No love, however brief, is wasted”
Communities of artists form more or less spontaneously, and that creates the one thing the rich can’t passively generate (although they can attempt to ‘buy’ it) and crave more than any other, culture; ‘the cool’, TASTE; the urban picturesque.
- Comment on Youtube about gentrification in art.
If I want to explore something, I never think about attending a class; I do the reading on my own or seek out experts for conversations.
- Herzog
Herzog mapped the actual landscape and found the shortest path to his specific goals. (And his goals were very specific. He never wanted to be “a filmmaker,” he wanted to make this film and then that film.)
AI is bringing back ancient ideas of collective knowledge; https://sublimeinternet.substack.com/p/ai-critics-should-do-some-moral-soul
So, which is it? Should you follow your curiosity and trust the process? Or should you define a clear goal and pursue it agentically?
Walking up and down the road by our farm, I conclude that it is a false dichotomy. I can have goals and unfold (it might even be that I need goals to unfold), but it has to be a specific kind of goal.
What tends to go
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