James Stevens
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Came for the creativity. Stayed for the community.
James Stevens
According to Frank, the desire for many to indulge in luxury “possessions” is motivated less by the gratification they may bring than by what others are buying or want to buy. We try to achieve happiness by improving our relative social status. For example, if your neighbor didn’t buy his new Mercedes Benz, you wouldn’t probably feel the need for... See more
Conspicuous Consumption and The Era of Excess // Book Summary of 'Luxury Fever' - Right Attitudes
that kind of luxe just ain't for us; we crave a different kind of buzz
'…invest in meaningful experiences that bring you joy.’ - THIS.
Students at NYU asked the creators of South Park the million-dollar question:
“What makes a good story?”
They gave one of the best explanations of story I’ve heard:
“If we can take the beats of your outline, and the words ‘and then’ belong between those beats…... See more
Disarmingly simple. Like all good thinking.
In the realm of biology, the cost of sequencing a human genome has plummeted by 99.997 percent.
The divide between performance anxiety and a feeling of
frictionless ease swings on the consumer’s response to
information. It sucks to be broke, but it sucks even more to
receive daily low balance notifications. We know our
preferences are being calculated and used to predict our
next moves, but we still don’t feel like we can take our hands
off the... See more
frictionless ease swings on the consumer’s response to
information. It sucks to be broke, but it sucks even more to
receive daily low balance notifications. We know our
preferences are being calculated and used to predict our
next moves, but we still don’t feel like we can take our hands
off the... See more