Jihad Esmail
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there’s no character trait more essential to individual and societal progress than agency. Agency is the embodied conviction that you have the power to create meaningful change in your life and transform your vision into reality. It’s the engine that powers human progress.
Cissy Hu • Grappling with the big questions
Artists do not create contexts; they work within them. Context is the web of complex circumstances in which artists work in relation to their physical environment, historical trends and traditions, social movements, cultural values, intellectual perspectives, personal commitments, and more. Art originates from within a context. Likewise, art is
... See moreJames McCullough • Sense and Spirituality: The Arts and Spiritual Formation
Globally-networked localism
• Design services will relocalize like farmers markets.
• Communities will commission work face-to-face. “I’ll come to your space”, not “jump on a Zoom”.
• Taste will be curated by the culture embedded in the city we work in.
• Our work isn’t slop on socials—design work should happen where people live and meet.
• We’re... See more
• Design services will relocalize like farmers markets.
• Communities will commission work face-to-face. “I’ll come to your space”, not “jump on a Zoom”.
• Taste will be curated by the culture embedded in the city we work in.
• Our work isn’t slop on socials—design work should happen where people live and meet.
• We’re... See more
EJJI is an ethos-driven design practice
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Personal branding isn’t about “look at me”, it’s about “look at this”
The rise of the ‘Luxury Worker’
The luxury worker does not compete on volume.
They do not scale by adding headcount.
They scale by increasing the perceived value of their participation. Their work is expensive not because it takes longer, but because it carries the weight of curiosity, curation, and judgment.
In many ways, this inverts the usual... See more
The luxury worker does not compete on volume.
They do not scale by adding headcount.
They scale by increasing the perceived value of their participation. Their work is expensive not because it takes longer, but because it carries the weight of curiosity, curation, and judgment.
In many ways, this inverts the usual... See more
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
Analyzing our culture's pathological impatience with learning and the critical need for contemplation and time to claim true knowledge.
TRANSCRIPT
And yet you present this discovery to people that we wanted to know more about big ideas, that we want our brains to be stretched.
As a culture, you're right, we seem somehow bored with thinking. We want to instantly know. Right, right. I mean, you know, there's this epidemic of listicles. Why think about what constitutes a great work of art when
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