J. Danielle
@jasminedanielle
strategist. writer. tinkerer. hobby hobbyist.
J. Danielle
lettersfromthebside.substack.com
DDB Planning Springboard Manual
“One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
— Charles Mingus via Daily Creative podcast
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
Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
bell hooks • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
1000 Tiny Pieces | Hopeful Monsters
1000tinypieces.com.au
Tumblr still works much like an older internet, where people have more control over what they see and rely less on algorithms. "You curate your own stuff; it takes a little bit of work to put everything in place, but when it's working, you see the content you want to see,"
archive.ph
too many trends, not enought taste
Before TikTok, there was Tumblr. As other platforms becoming increasing polarized and ad-ridded (laden?), Tumblr re emerges as a space to culivate niche interests to your hearts content. It is the OG taste maker.
How Barnes and Noble made a comeback by revitalizing its philosophy
youtube.comCuration, taste will be the currency of the times we’re heading into.
Sycophancy has a kind of momentum. Like any form of groupthink, it is part conformity, part self-preservation. The first person to grovel is undignified, but each subsequent act of cowardice allows the next person to acquiesce more easily.