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1. Don’t wait, just start trying to sell some art right now on the side while going full steam with his work.

There are two failure modes here. The first is to simply accept the internal theory of a practice unquestioned.

Technological progress has shifted scarcity for humanity. When we were foragers, food was scarce. During the agrarian age, it was land. Following the industrial revolution, capital became scarce. With digital technologies scarcity is shifting once more. We need to figure out how to live in The World After Capital in which the only scarcity is our... See more

There is one demon [...] an addiction that is worse than nicotine: consumerism. For the past four years, every year, I make an effort to get rid of things and buy less. It is not easy to do — the machines of desire work constantly and are powerful.

Fear of this sort of cultural distress pushes us to simply spend money to avoid it.