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short-form video could just be a glitch in the long arc of consumer media

• about culture cycles

• about the danger of caring more about the past rather than the future [are you holding rights? or are you creating what’s next?]

• the battle between macro-culture and micro-culture — and while the former is declining, the latter might thrive

• “you can’t reduce things to formula”

• the difference between art and entertainment

• we need mind-expanding experiences

• there is a real danger in going full-passive consumption; which is bad for the culture

• “i spend more time reading than i do writing” => “any process you have in the world, your output depends on your input”

• fluid intelligence versus crystallized intelligence

• now being similar to 1800’s: back then, power went from the industrialists to the creative people

• you get luckier if you force yourself out of your comfort zone

• what Internet allowed is: direct contact with your audience, your people

Being a “member” means that you belong to the place, and the place belongs to you.

Being able to repair the problems on that bike with such little know-how or experience made me reflect on the simplicity and elegance of such a simple piece of engineering. Everything I needed to know on that bike I could inspect myself.

First, we need more cults in this world. Second, each one of us represents a cult of our own personality that we have to manage. And third, we all have to be careful what we worship.