If you want to figure out where you’re invisibly limited in your life right now, ask yourself where you feel most unsafe and defensive despite the lack of an objective, tangible threat
Yet, ours is not truly an information economy. By definition, economics is the study of how a society uses its scarce resources. And information is not scarce - especially on the Net, where it is not only abundant, but overflowing. We are drowning in information, yet constantly increasing our generation of it. So a key question arises: Is there... See more
I think a lot of people want to be but they don’t want to do . They want to have written a book, but they don’t want to write the book. They want to be fit, but they don’t want the tedium of working out. They’re ashamed of rejection and they’re ashamed of imperfection. I might want lots of people to subscribe to this Substack, but do I want to... See more
@SoliSolstice If you’re going to sell your soul to the screen, at least be exceptional about it. But no— most people are just doomscrolling badly, posting mid takes, and falling for MLMs in group chats named “Vibe Zone.”
If you’re gonna be terminally online, at least be legendary about it.
This led to a broader discussion about artistic evolution and audience expectations. I referenced a Zadie Smith quote about how "We want our artists to remain as they were when we first loved them. But our artists want to move." The worst thing, Smith argues, is for an artist to exist as "a feature of someone else's epiphany."