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This disconnect between culturally mandated politics and the actual demonstrated preferences of most Americans has created an enormous reserve of unmet needs—and a generational opportunity. Build new things! Create great art! Understand and accept that sensory information is the brain’s food, and that Silicon Valley is systematically starving us of... See more
Words are a lossy medium for describing rich, multidimensional ideas.
Oliver Hunt • Building a 21st century interface for science
Normalizing sobriety in an alcohol-dependent society is difficult, especially when individuals are up against a trillion-dollar industry pumping out advertisements and making it seem like the only way to experience life is with a drink in your hand. Marketing budgets for alcohol brands are expected to rise to $7.7 billion by next year, and the... See more
Sober Curious Gen Z and Millennials Have Sparked the Next Health Trend | Dame Magazine
they could defend every ad on the basis that it obeyed the rules of advertising. It was like worshiping a ritual instead of the God.
the goal is resonance, not scale
A Compulsive Search for the Most Interesting People with Patrick O'Shaughnessy - Compound Manual
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Rituals are characterized by repetition. Repetition differs from routine in its capacity to create intensity.
Byung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
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Passive programming
We still haven’t fully realized how dramatically this state of affairs has changed. The internet has made it possible for people from anywhere in the world with access to the internet to create and share their ideas, stories, and connectednesss without permission. Seth Godin puts it bluntly: “The world just gave you control over the means of
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