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The venture ecosystem went from cottage industry outsider to institutional insider – from a nascent practice to a consensus component of institutional portfolios. The result has been the industrialization–and bankerization–of venture. Firms that make dozens or even hundreds of investments per year, relentlessly focused on assets under management, u... See more
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 princ... 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
Optimize for legacy, not empire. Empires die because they’re alone, legacies live because they involve others.
-OH, on building teams and brand communities
Reference mining, in the context of DJ'ing and creative work, refers to the process of searching for and collecting diverse sources of inspiration and information to use in one's work
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. This practice involves:
Exploring the past and present for relevant material
Discovering rich histories and cultural contexts
Gathering a wide range of references to inform creative output
Examples of reference mining might include:
A DJ digging through record crates to find obscure samples for a new mix
A fashion designer researching historical clothing styles for a modern collection
A writer exploring various literary genres to develop a unique writing style
A filmmaker studying different cultural mythologies to create a new narrative
This process allows creators to act as "mixers," combining diverse elements to produce new and impactful work
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. By mining references, artists can create connections between different ideas, time periods, and cultures, leading to innovative and thought-provoking creations.
A community space and possible future.
If the dynamic medium is to serve as the foundation for new modes of thought and communication, it must lift all people, not just those traditionally advantaged by technology. There is no product we can ship to achieve this goal.
Instead, we are building Dynamicland as a community space, where the people of Oak... See more
If the dynamic medium is to serve as the foundation for new modes of thought and communication, it must lift all people, not just those traditionally advantaged by technology. There is no product we can ship to achieve this goal.
Instead, we are building Dynamicland as a community space, where the people of Oak... See more
Dynamicland
Scott details a pattern of disaster that repeatedly manifests around legibility. His opening example is from the late-18th century discipline of “scientific forestry”.
A natural forest is illegible. A tangle of plants. This is inconvenient from the standpoint of harvesting lumber. How do you quantify yield? Can you even make a meaningful map of this... See more
A natural forest is illegible. A tangle of plants. This is inconvenient from the standpoint of harvesting lumber. How do you quantify yield? Can you even make a meaningful map of this... See more
Gordon Brander • Soulbinding Like a State
Museo
museo.appProcess > artifacts
As I’ve learned to let go of my prior fixation with outcomes, I’ve found myself more inclined to explore and play, and in this is another lesson: play does not imply lack of purpose. Quite the opposite, it honors the most meaningful kind of purpose: that which arises from process. We don’t find meaning, we make it.
When we... See more
As I’ve learned to let go of my prior fixation with outcomes, I’ve found myself more inclined to explore and play, and in this is another lesson: play does not imply lack of purpose. Quite the opposite, it honors the most meaningful kind of purpose: that which arises from process. We don’t find meaning, we make it.
When we... See more
Rebecca • [BIFFS vol. 1] Rest does not require artifacts
I'm not sure that there is an inherent tension between scale and trustworthy information systems, but I am confident confident, especially after being in the belly of the beast for as long as I was at Facebook, that there is an inherent tension between trustworthy information and centralized governance systems at a scale.