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• always be learning

• If you're not learning, you're probably not on a path that leads to superlinear returns.

Instead actively and continually design the system to prevent Stuff from accumulating and to make it easier to regularly prune Stuff.

Supreme traced a social and cultural topography of its brand’s global community, but that community formed exactly because you could only buy Supreme at its Lafayette Street shop in New York. Through its merch, Supreme held this community together across time and geography. It connected people, conversations, and symbols into one Supreme social network.

culture is the operating system of society.

Like any well-designed operating system, culture is invisible to most people most of the time. Hidden in plain sight, we make use of it constantly without realizing it. As an operating system, culture forms the base infrastructure layer of societal interaction, facilitating communication, cooperation, and interrelations. Always evolving, culture is elastic: we build on it, remix it, and even break it.

As more and more spaces for meeting in real life close, we increasingly turn to digital platforms for connection to replace them. But these virtual spaces are optimized for shareholder returns, not public good.

talking about intentionality, even [esp?] as a collector:

What I learned over time is you have to find a direction in your collecting, otherwise you will run out of money, storage space, or both.