Jonathan Quaade

• Research culminates in some output . Research isn’t just about collecting references and evidence and the ideas of other people. It isn’t even about synthesizing them in an interesting way. Research is about advancing new arguments and ideas in some form—typically a conference presentation, paper, book, etc.

And when does this cleansing process, leading us to the idea of the gallery as ‘white cube’, begin?

*Charlotte Klonk

*The disciplining began at an early stage with the design of reverential entrance halls and exhibition rooms. They were sumptuously decorated, but weren’t intended to distract from viewing the art.

How often did you talk about the weather when you were a kid? 

I don’t remember speaking about the weather at uni ever.  Unless it snowed. It was always about ambitions, dream hardships, goal projects, gossip. Nothing is glacified and solidified at that age. That’s something you can tap into. 

In hiring, value intelligence highly. Like focus, intelligence yields increasing returns.

Like focus, intelligence has a convex output curve — the smartest people can be an order of magnitude more productive than others who are only somewhat less smart. The key in hiring is to value potential skill rather than currently existing skill — and

Market forces are nudging everyone towards having senior writers who are also good prompt engineers: An arrangement that meets all of their needs faster and cheaper than hiring junior humans.

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."