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- Similarly, I think people need to ask themselves – and it might be easier if we ask each other – What do you really want to be doing? How did you fall in love in the first place? People start optimizing for things like “hm, if I did this I would get 5% more traffic” or “I would get to the next follower milestone” I think because it’s visible, and i... See more
from "People First" - Making Tech Work for You by Anna Dorothea Ker
The Medium Is The Message and It's All About People
Visakan on putting the goal first. What do you really want to be doing? Why? With Whom? ? How? The tools are just scaffolding, support structures, facilitators. What specific outcomes do you actually want?
A trend is a fad whose demand is not satisfied. A fad is a trend whose demand is satisfied too quickly. The lesson? If you experience success, do not try to satisfy all the demand. Instead, always maintain a ring of desire around your work of people who are intrigued but can’t get it quite yet. Do it long enough and an organic trend will emerge.
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... See morepeople think they want choices. but they prefer good defaults.
never trust a thought you have indoors
- Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires
from In Praise of Gatekeeping by Ruby Justice Thelot
Rene Girard
- These are two very different modes of cultural interaction. Charli’s approach invites participation: the memes exist for remixing, the portrayed scene and its participants exist to be followed and engaged with on social media—the culture of Brat is open and participatory, giving anyone a ticket to join the global digital party. Kendrick, on the oth... See more
from In Praise of Gatekeeping by Ruby Justice Thelot
the gatekeeper is the reminder that culture requires labor and that access is not a right, it must be earned
"If you stay at the center the chances of you catching what's going on is going to to be exponentially higher because you're not relying on third hand information"
-Ghazi from Empire- you can rest assured that whatever kaleidoscope of stimulation (or even intoxication) AI conjures, you will get bored of it; getting bored is what we do, and it turns out to be a rather profound feature of our consciousness
from The irrepressible monkey in the machine by Mills Baker
fav chatGPT prompt: Based on all of our interactions, what is the question that I should be asking, but am not?