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The online opportunity lies mid-market (for now). Pre-covid, the distribution of transaction volume online is skewed towards the middle, while most of the high-value sales still happen offline. Just 1% of the >100k€ artworks are sold online, yet make up for 23% of the value.
Ulysse Laroche • Art Tech
But one thing is certain: every day in America, thousands of people appear before a jury of their peers and hope they will be judged fairly, when in reality they are judged by human brains that always perceive the world from a self-interested point of view. To believe otherwise is a fiction that is not supported by the architecture of the brain.
Lisa Feldman Barrett • How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Making money isn't evil, greedy, shallow, or vain. Your biggest obstacle to getting rich is the harmful meaning you've attached to it.
Derek Sivers • How to Live | Derek Sivers
People give you time or money where their core motivations are mostly met, or when there is a hope for their motivations to be met.
Kunal Shah • Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations [The Knowledge Project Ep. #141]
Intelligent people simply aren’t willing to accept answers that they don’t understand — no matter how many other people try to convince them of it, or how many other people believe it, if they aren’t able to convince them selves of it, they won’t accept it.
Nabeel Qureshi • How To Understand Things
If platforms like Vine and TikTok aim to make us all content creators, subscription platforms like Spotify aim to make us all content curators, picking our favorite tracks and sharing them with friends and the internet at large. While curating our music choices might give us a brief flash of empowerment, like we’ve somehow escaped the clutches of c... See more
Tim Maughan • Platforms, Creative Communities, and the Need for a Radical Reimagining - The Reboot
Regardless of whether or not we’re formally making art, we are all living as artists. We perceive, filter, and collect data, then curate an experience for ourselves and others based on this information set. Whether we do this consciously or unconsciously, by the mere fact of being alive, we are active participants in the ongoing process of creation
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