Marta Pyr
@martpyr
Marta Pyr
I am aiming to be as optimistic as I possibly can because a big dose of optimism is required to make better things
Eliot Peper • The Thursday Murder Club
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
“We’ve never had more freedom, more choices. But in reality, most people are subtly funneled into the same streams, the same pools of ‘socially approved’ culture, cuisine and ideas.... You might think you’re choosing, but you never really are. When your ideas, interests, and even daily meals are largely inspired by whatever was already approved,... See more
320 / Resisting algorithmic comfort
Collage focused newsletter
. 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.
Adam Singer • 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.
Dom Robert Tapestry
