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To embed meaning and stories in everything. We extract the purest essence of an idea, value or lesson and then tell it through as many means as possible so it lives on with possibility of endless continuation, in collaboration with the past and future.

Going through this upheaval has helped me discover that it’s actually much easier to simplify your life in order to do something you love, than it is to be miserable at a job you don’t like, spending all your earnings on things to cope with that. My new life now is very local and offline, making it simpler and slower.

Our brains can’t store every observation, thought or perception that passes through and that isn’t a bad thing. Constraints and selections are what allow us to stay sane in a world of complete sensory overload.

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.

Instead, art and culture have been safely neutralized as interchangeable commercial objects just like everything else.

At its best, cultural criticism is love and art that exists to give love to other expressions of art. It’s beautiful in its indulgence. A positive feedback loop that gives everybody exactly what they desire. Gods, scribes, muses, an audience, a culmination. This is what we want out of art. Something that feels grand, meaningful, connected to the ages. That doesn’t happen on its own. It needs context, dedicated space, deeper knowledge, appreciation.