Francesco
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Francesco
On one side, I agree with fact that I deserve a job that makes me want to wake up for it instead of whatever office boring and toxic job expects me to do.
But at the same time, following your passion and chasing art-making as your full time income is also likely to ruin your art practice in the first place. I know a little about it because I had a passion for music and sound art as a teenager. Even just attending uni in my early twenties to focus on sound more than on anything else was enough to make that passion fade away almost entirely.
So I’m not too sure what the answer is really. I wish I didn’t have to work either but I also don’t want whatever creative pursuit brings me joy now to become my ft profession.
But all of the arguments being made today against using generative AI to answer questions sound exactly like the arguments against citing web pages as sources in the 1990s. The argument then was basically “ Anyone can publish anything on the web, and even if a web page is accurate today, it can be changed at any time ” — which was true then and... See more
John Gruber • ★ Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Generative AI Bullshit Bathwater
In short, once you accept the hard truth that building a career and earning money is not the everlasting source of happiness and meaning you believed it would be, you can start to look outside the box you built for yourself.
What is meaningful work?
App to run a variety of AI models
The way that I (and Igor) drew our maps is with the four axis method, although an “how to work with me” map does not have to follow this scheme and can take other shapes. For example a hand, where the creases in the palm are the axis and their intersection is where those skills meet. Or concentric circles, with each adding a layer/offer/something
... See moreShould the paid winter event be about teaching people how to create a new suite of offerings? Showing them how there are other ways of making money as an artist or a creative business owner? Brining examples of curious and lesser known ways that people are making a living today and how they can put that in practice with small exercises to do
... See moreI think the best writers actually just write about what they want to write, what they know, what they experience, and generally their story...
Writers who do that and let the readers connect the dots without explicitly holding their hand through an article are better writers imo.
When we emphasize the target audience we give away our creative power.... See more
Writers who do that and let the readers connect the dots without explicitly holding their hand through an article are better writers imo.
When we emphasize the target audience we give away our creative power.... See more
Mal on Substack
try contacting Vanessa Clarke to announce the directory on her podcast?