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The potential to build community-curated knowledge networks remains largely untapped. There are reasons to be optimistic; the economic feasibility of paid communities, a renewed interest in curation, a slow move away from big social, and an improved understanding of platform incentives. All combined, this will lead to communities that are more... See more
Adam Grant • Check Your Pulse #55
Kelly's insight about wine applies perfectly to how we think about personal growth. Just as mindlessly drinking more wine doesn't make us better wine connoisseurs, frantically doing more doesn't make us more successful humans. When we apply Type 2 thinking to our lives, it shifts everything - from how we parent (quality time over scheduled... See more
In the high modernist world we live in, we can adapt Drucker’s dictum that “whatever is measured improves” to a more true-to-reality, but less elegant “whatever is legible improves, unless there are second-order consequences which undermine or destroy the original intention.”
taylorpearson.me • The Illegible Margin: Profiting From the Gap Between the Map and the Territory
I almost don’t even want to design and operate from scratch. I’m into the idea of editing. And I think that’s valuable now, because the cycles have gotten shorter. For me, the ideas of Mies van der Rohe and Bauhaus are things that completely translate to modernism in clothing—the idea that you could design a building that’s so resolved in its... See more
Thom Bettridge • VIRGIL ABLOH: “Duchamp is my Lawyer”
I almost don’t even want to design and operate from scratch. I’m into the idea of editing - Virgil Abloh
Could there be such a thing as a Synthesizing Quotient? If so, how might one test for it? Synthesizing can have a gestalt quality to it, but it seems to involve something more than the speed of gestalt image processing. Given their desire to search far and wide, I suspect that hyper-synthesizers are more open to change and instability than... See more
Scarface: Tiny Desk Concert
youtube.comexcavating burried youtube comments that resonate
The comment reveals a deep appreciation for how hip-hop, as a form of poignant and intelligent art from oppressed communities, transcends geographical and cultural boundaries to educate and evoke empathy in a global audience. It highlights the transformative power of music in bridging disparate experiences and celebrating the resilience and creativity of those "punched down on" through their compelling storytelling.
