Glen Cassidy
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Creative. Strategist. Always building.
Glen Cassidy
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the depth of a conversation depends on how deeply seen you feel, not on the topic of conversation
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“Optimistic but dissatisfied is the road to progress.”
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Fame is not an adequate measure of creative value. Otherwise, the Tate Modern would be full of TikTok dances.
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Digital serendipity: be careful what you don't wish for
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In his book, Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson proposes several ingredients for serendipity. They are almost all impossible to replicate on a machine: sleep, coffee, a creative walk, a hot bath, a broken treadmill, chaos and an open system are among them. Yet Johnson still describes the web as "the greatest serendipity engine in the history of culture", because it allows us to traverse Wikipedia – from an article about fountain pens to one about monarch butterflies via links to chocolate-chip cookies and the chancellor's real name. That is not, I would argue, serendipitously discovering something about insects; it's discovering something about insects via a path laid out by the people who edit the articles. It's not making conclusions, drawing parallels or creating something new.
The directed nature of how we use the web is therefore in contrast to, say, taking a hot bath: we can collect information along the way, but the process of serendipity happens elsewhere.
The good stuff is always lonely in the beginning. Nothing meaningful will get made if its potential makers all wimp out too soon, because they get scared by the sparse crowd, the empty room.