Jonathan Quaade
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Jonathan Quaade
Today, the history of the white cube and modern art are more or less inseparable. Formalist painting from the 1960s, for example, is “isolated from the world,” noted art critic David Carrier, on the phone from Berlin. “The work is complete in itself. You want it in that enclosed space, you don’t want to be able to look out the windows. It’s a very
... See moreAbigail Cain • How the White Cube Came to Dominate the Art World
Chamath on the importance of slow compounding:
“The faster you build it, that is the half life: it will get destroyed in the same amount of time.”
Things tend to come and go, tip to one side and then the other, tide out and back in, grow and then rot, get created and destroyed, at the same speed.
copywriter, an art director, and an advertising account man are boarding a plane to go to a client presentation. Slightly implausibly, they open the overhead locker and a genie pops out. The genie says, “I’ve been stuck in that bloody overhead locker for 10 years. As a reward, I’ve only got three wishes, but I’ll give you one each.”
The genie turns... See more
The genie turns... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
Buckets are little homes for the things you want to explore deeper.
Maybe you’ll write or draw or build about them one day, but that’s not really the point.
All you gotta do is make some buckets.
Because making buckets creates a magnetic force that draws related ideas towards you.
Alex Dobrenko` • The Bucket Theory of Creativity
isn't my brain like a neural net (llm)? and questions are the guide to life
Questions are the guide to life
The more I see of human lives, the more I believe the business of growing up is much longer drawn out than we pretend. If we achieve it in our 30's, even our 40s, we're doing well.
pbs.org • John Gardner : Education and Excellence
on youth will never end / Stop worrying about getting older
I love that he uses the word pretend here.
Is he referring to how children pretend to be adults?
That we all don’t really know what we are doing
As competition intensifies, founders rush to get their products out into the market. Product teams literally work in sprints. Craftsmanship was replaced with growth hacks. It's not just the software itself that lacks personality; has every tech company hired the same illustrator? Our once so lively dreams have become positively lifeless.
- ReadMe
This is what questions do: they pull the right stuff into your brain.
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers
Identity Protection: most neurotypicals identify strongly with groups which they imagine themselves to be members of, and defend those groups against criticism. Those groups make up all kinds of stories about their origins and past actions and teach them as true. History is the science of discovering truth about the past, so it always conflicts
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