Olivier M
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Olivier M
The meaning of your life isn't a puzzle to solve
bigthink.com
Only once you can manage your emotional reactions can you make the fundamental shift Brooks advocates: Instead of asking, “How do I find my purpose?” we need to ask, “How do I get better at wrestling with meaning when it inevitably slips away?”
Because meaning will slip away, slowly, subtly, and then all at once. The job that once energized you will become routine. The relationship that once completed you will face challenges. The identity that once defined you will evolve or end. This is the human condition. This is not failure. We’re supposed to lose our sense of meaning periodically because we never permanently solve it. We just get faster at recognizing when we’ve lost it and better at the practices that help us find it again.
Brooks taught me that meaning isn’t a destination but a way of traveling. The wrestling never gets easier, but we can find joy in the difficulty. We can flip the struggle from adversarial to collaborative, letting each crisis of meaning teach us something new about ourselves and what we value. More importantly, we can get faster at moving from existential paralysis to purposeful action.
The ethics against commercial art set strong boundaries for "alternative" culture, which arguably allowed it to flourish as a separate entity. As that culture began to hit the mainstream in the early 1990s, the taboo against selling out spread into broader youth culture. As Chuck Klosterman writes in The Nineties, “The concept of ‘selling out’ — an... See more
The challenge for our times is to locate and elevate the artists using their platforms for art and other social goods rather than just securing further personal profit. Every time we don't condemn the double sell-outs, we're insulting those in pursuit of what used to be the clear goal: to move culture forward.
PMI Behind the Project: The Making of OK Go’s Love Music Video
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Kate Mothesthisiscolossal.com
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
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