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corporate gothic24

the surreal horrors of cubicle world

alexi gunner
consulting life54
alexi gunner

“I stopped liking my job, but I keep working because it pays well. And that makes me feel sick. But not sick enough to quit. Which makes me feel even

I visualise the one person business as a garden. An ecosystem that you get to design, grow and hopefully enjoy spending time in every season! Areas th

something i only just realized: excitement is my competitive edge. at times i’ve felt embarrassed of coming off as “too keen”. but forget that. that’s

the digital panopticon25
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Technology has facilitated a quantum leap for the promotion and dissemination of the music, but phone filming in nightclubs is increasingly a vibe-smo

Boiler Room has been an enormous force, bringing all kinds of electronic dance music from all over the world to people in their bedrooms, no matter wh

Is a no-phones policy something we should want at all concerts? Would people consent to it on the honor system, w/o pouches? Would you? Is this a way

Oh, you are a DJ? What’s your content publishing schedule? What kind of engagement do you typically get? What’s your net monthly follower growth rate?

the nocturnal otherworld109
alexi gunner

It's not only UK dance music of the Nineties that is associated with cities; the whole history of popular music is about urban scenes. It's no acciden

the dark forest of the club5
alexi gunner

“absolutely, and I mean, there are also stories how that historically came to play when you had, you know, when it's also about life and death during

I view a party as a ritual space, so I focus a lot of attention on the experience of the dancer. At night parties, lights should be minimal for severa

“I once said that the club is the forest of the urban dweller, and in the end this describes the form of metaphysics taking place in a club. This form

As our dark nights deepen, we find ourselves recovering our love of mystery. When we were children, most of us were good friends with mystery. The wor

on mysticism1
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books56
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on writing40
alexi gunner

art is never finished, only abandoned an essay is never done, only published

One of the best pieces of writing advice I've ever read came from Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who said she always tries to give a character three things to

on creativity6
alexi gunner

As theorist Matt Klein puts it, “There’s this weird thing that’s happening where amongst creative surplus, we have creative stagnation.”

What if there’s nothing we can do, and we’re just stuck in a creatively stagnant era? Well, stagnation can lead to explosive change. The Renaissance i

“So I made an album, and it’s really different from the last one,” the “360” singer says. “That is a fact. And I love it, and you might not. And that’

AI15
alexi gunner

this the concept of differentiation seems really, really important to me in a world that seems incredibly homogenizing. I think technology is contribu

Increasingly I feel that the only distinction between machine and human intelligence is our corporeal self, not in the sense that consciousness can on

how we shape cities, and cities shape us53
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Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hardLive in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft

Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could

How much does it matter what message a city sends? Empirically, the answer seems to be: a lot. You might think that if you had enough strength of min

A city speaks to you mostly by accident — in things you see through windows, in conversations you overhear. It's not something you have to seek out,

melbourne11
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tracking the berlin vibe-cession36

berlin I love you, but you're bringing me down

alexi gunner

The second stage is the longest stage, which is often referred to as the final state, where we're separate from the group. Our identity is in flux, be

Right. Sometimes we change, we don't feel it. So, that's often what I describe, but something seems to be sort of missing there. And a rite of passage

Germany is a great place if you’ve stopped wanting things.The system is designed to protect you — from risk, from failure, from consequences.And event

weird2
alexi gunner

The word weird (or, in Old English, wyrd) originally meant ‘having the power to control destiny’. Do with that what you will.

rebranding religion2
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inner lives9
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Being in someone’s home feels so intimate it’s like wow these are your possessions I’m in a little museum of your life, a material manifestation of yo

The site is also like a home in that it’s a collection of many things which are unified only by the person who collected them. I feel as if someone is

The home is decorated and personalized; it takes on the soul of the people who live there and becomes the mirror of their spirit. Yet in the deepest s

“I want to talk about everything with at least one person the way I talk about things with myself.”— Fyodor Dostoevsky

identity1
alexi gunner

Being in someone’s home feels so intimate it’s like wow these are your possessions I’m in a little museum of your life, a material manifestation of yo

introspection1
alexi gunner

introspection is overrated. That’s in part because what’s going on in your mind is not only more complicated than you understand, it is more complicat

the aspiration of growing old13
alexi gunner

Many older individuals feel a greater sense of freedom with age, inviting them to chase their truest selves, and leave the unimportant angst behind. I

The fear of aging is an ironic (and very Western) concern, seeing as aging and dying are the only things all humans have in common. In many cultures,

productivity1
alexi gunner

Somewhere out there is a guy who uses Notion, Superhuman, OpenClaw on a Mac Mini, Raycast, a mechanical keyboard ($400), Wispr Flow, and gets nothing