Marta Pyr
@martpyr
Marta Pyr
. Remixes and memes abound, but almost no one shares anything weird, original or different. People wake up, perhaps with ambitions to make unique choices they believe are their own, only to find that the options have been filtered, curated, and ‘tailored to existing tastes’ by algorithms that claim to know them best.
Don't let machines or the crowd decide your world
It’s interesting because a reposted meme must have been created by someone. So, some people are original creators. However, I think it comes down to volume and proportion, how many reposts are there for every original post. 10x, 100x, 1000x. I would add that the incentives/commercialisation of the content creator only fuels the volume dynamic.
And yet, we often approach our work and lives as if there were—as if every day is a competition, every achievement a test of our worth rather than a step in an ongoing journey.
Do You Have to Grind to Be Great?
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
This is a model I also use for my creative work. Last year:
- I released an essay as a limited edition zip file to express the gravity of the work in my eyes
- The piece generated more than $1,000 from collectors in a week
- More than a hundred collectors wrote long responses that were incredibly meaningful
- The essay continues to have a strong online shelf
Yancey Strickler • Stop posting, start releasing: The 2025 Creative Playbook
Interesting concept for the digital artisane
Interesting experiments with new technologies. Prompting to understand ourselves better
Tove Jansson Alice in Wonderland illustrations
You can mentally replace the “generative” in generative AI with generic by the way, and it honestly works better (totally fine for some things, but you have to know where).
How 'The Time Machine' explains the future of knowledge work
Love that
They See Your Photos
theyseeyourphotos.com
Tool to show how AI interprets your photos