People dramatically under estimate how many decisions one has to make before shipping the v1 of even the simplest product. They all seem obvious in retrospect, but so, so much thinking had to happen to ship something like "press a button, get a ride."
We’re witnessing the complete collapse of nuance. The internet hasn’t just flattened attention; its flattened complexity. We no longer share a common reality, only overlapping feeds, which means everything is reduced to the memeable binary: good/bad, for/against, stan/cancel. As Jia Tolentino has argued, the lack of critical thinking online doesn’t... See more
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.