Glen Cassidy
@glencassidy
Creative. Strategist. Always building.
Glen Cassidy
glencassidy.com
"The Taste Economy" by Daisy Alioto at FWB FEST24
youtube.comrich kids being able to do art for a living may be a reflection on their privilege but it seems to me like a reflection on the fact that a human that doesn't have to worry about money will often choose art. everyone is an artist until rent is due. i wish we all had that right
Thanks to @darsh.35mm for this beautiful note about @sydneymusicdotnet in his “short letters about community”, published on his blog. This really sums up what we’re about.
We’ve got a link to the full piece in our stories if you’re keen to read the rest. A lot of lovely shoutouts — and an amazing link to an... See more
instagram.comMost AI backlash is economic anxiety coated in a veneer of social justice. Alfalfa farming consumes 19 times the water that data centers do; there’s no sound environmental reason to boycott Claude but not GPS. When people say “AI is a moral stain,” they really mean: I am scared that I won’t be able to pay my bills.
Jasmine • 🌻 42 notes on AI and work
“If you want a new world, start making it right now, in whatever you are doing.” This is the best advice I ever had, it came from Brian Eno. If you imagine the world you would like to be in and start making objects, systems and collaborations that belong to that world, that world comes into being.
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The most effective brands do not persuade. They embed themselves as inevitabilities. Defaults that feel less like choices and more like recognition. Think about the last time you reached for a familiar brand without thinking. You did not weigh features or recall an ad. The alternative simply felt like more effort.
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The creator economy isn’t about influence. It’s about infrastructure.
If someone calls them influencers, run a mile. It’s a proper giveaway they don’t understand the economics of attention of the world they're trying to harness.
The creator world isn’t a media channel. It’s a parallel media infrastructure with its own broadcasters, publishers, and... See more
If someone calls them influencers, run a mile. It’s a proper giveaway they don’t understand the economics of attention of the world they're trying to harness.
The creator world isn’t a media channel. It’s a parallel media infrastructure with its own broadcasters, publishers, and... See more
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My advice to young artists is to do what my painter friends at art school used to tell me—stop moaning and get to work, regardless of whether one is “feeling it” or not. Inspiration comes, in time, to the prepared mind, at least that is what I have found.