J. Danielle
@jasminedanielle
strategist. writer. tinkerer. hobby hobbyist.
J. Danielle
lettersfromthebside.substack.com
Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insight without endangering the security of our prior assumptions.
– Robert Grudin, The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation
It’s been endlessly argued that algorithms influence too much of what we watch, listen to, read, and even think. Personal taste erodes while decision-making is outsourced to the platform.
Beware the Curators
Historian Peter Turchin illuminates this possibility with his theory of “elite overproduction.” When societies generate more elite aspirants than there are roles to fill, competition for status intensifies. Ambitious but frustrated people grow disillusioned and radicalized. Rather than integrate into institutions, they seek to undermine them.... See more
Alienated Intellectuals become revolutionaries
Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
— Charles Mingus via Daily Creative podcast
Fashion and beauty are now well and truly intertwined with the WNBA, which exploded into the mainstream last year, breaking viewership and stadium ticket sale records. In 2024, the WNBA averaged 1.19 million viewers on ESPN platforms, up 170 per cent from 2023. (In response to the growing interest, all WNBA pre-season games will be broadcast or... See more
The New York Liberty athletes will now wear Fenty Beauty
Dogma - “a belief held definitively and without the possibility of reform or change” - and distance from the reality of the consumer - are held up by Huntington as the two biggest sins a strategist can commit. Amen.
Ideas We Love: Feral Strategy
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