Jacob Sam-La Rose

@jacobsamlarose

"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others."

~ Picasso
from Tweet by Poetic Outlaws
People keep asking me about AI and I really think how you feel about AI comes down to whether you believe art is about producing things (images, objects, data files, “content”) or about a way of operating in the world as an intellectual, spiritual, and emotional creature.
from AI can’t kill anything worth preserving - Austin Kleon by Austin Kleon
Media sites like Reddit, Twitter, and HackerNews are entropic, optimized for novelty, and “random”: the user is pulled into several different directions that limit their ability to progress at any one thing
from Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan | Modern Wisdom Podcast 519 by Balaji S. Srinivasan
“It is a highly valued function of society to prevent changes in the rules of the many games it embraces... Deviancy, however, is the very essence of culture.
from Finite and Infinite Games Quotes by James P. Carse by James Carse
“The real danger is not to people who are experts in their fields. Super experts in every field will continue to do what they have always done. All of us, however, are novices in almost everything we do. Most of us will never be experts in anything. The vast majority of the human experience of learning about something is done at the novice level.

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As generative AI gets better at producing content, it’s important to remember that creativity is about far more than the outcome. The striking and wondrous thing about creativity is its mysterious seeds of origin.
from Creating in The Era of Creative Confidence by Scott Belsky
“The majority of my buddies are not in the business. I also love not working. And I think for me a lot of research as an actor is just fucking living , and, you know, having a normal life doing regular things and just being able to observe, and be , in that sort of lovely flow of humanity.
from Cillian Murphy Is the Man of the Moment by Daniel Riley
Here are some other techniques people use to access and maintain the zone:

Introducing a long delay between when you do the work and when it is shown to the world. Annie Ernaux writes about this in A Simple Passion, a memoir about how she becomes obsessed in a banal way with a man who is having an affair with her—the thought that others will read th
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from Notes | Substack by Substack
What to copy is a little bit trickier. Don’t just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes. The reason to copy your heroes and their style is so that you might somehow get a glimpse into their minds. That’s what you really want—to internalize their way of looking... See more
from Steal Like An Artist - a book by Austin Kleon by Austin Kleon

from Tweet by Poetic Outlaws

from AI can’t kill anything worth preserving - Austin Kleon by Austin Kleon

from Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan | Modern Wisdom Podcast 519 by Balaji S. Srinivasan

from Finite and Infinite Games Quotes by James P. Carse by James Carse

from Creating in The Era of Creative Confidence by Scott Belsky

from Cillian Murphy Is the Man of the Moment by Daniel Riley

from Notes | Substack by Substack

from Steal Like An Artist - a book by Austin Kleon by Austin Kleon