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The role of a curator is to sort through culture and show us what we need to know and why.
Ana Andjelic • Creativity Is Dead, Long Live Curation | Highsnobiety
The only person out of every single person that I've studied on the podcast that I consider my blueprint for, I want that, I want their life in totality is Ed Thorp. Because, history's greatest entrepreneurs, how'd they get there, they're going to over optimize their work to the detriment of everything, their health. In many cases, they die earlier... See more
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Passion & Pain
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Don't criticize unless you can do better. Try to understand how the faulty design might have occurred: try to determine how it could have been done otherwise.
Don Norman • The Design Of Everyday Things
"They subscribe to your consciousness. So many “experts” will tell you to write for your reader. I think that’s BS. I write for me. And when people enjoy it, it’s a rewarding bonus. I love connecting with my readers, but I am not altering my words for them. I am not writing the things that I think will go viral or resonate with the mainstream.”
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... See moreFind a way to connect every project to something much bigger: a higher order value, a truth, a courageous goal, or a larger question. Then, if your efforts start to lag or feel mundane, return to that larger ideal that inspired you in the first place. It works.
Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules
We have been co-evolving with ravenous attention predators forever. This is not a fight we can, or should want to, opt out of. We already live in a universe with church, slot machines, and Rhianna. The Sorrows of Young Werther. The Beatles. The bigger and more successful they get, the more boring they become, and the easier they are to ignore.
Frank Lantz • Unpluggers, Deflators etc. pt 3: Why Not Both?
taste is the business end of attention - we will need to learn how to use it to survive. humans are not helpless creatures who must be protected from the grindhouse of optimized infotainment. we are attention warriors.
Run lean, and persevere. If Dune’s burn rate had been higher, the company almost certainly would have failed in the dead of crypto winter. Instead, founders Fredrik Haga and Mats Olsen spent conservatively, giving them the chance to flourish in better conditions.
Mario Gabriele • Dune: The Data Must Flow | The Generalist
Adam Mosseri on Rick Rubin’s Tetragammaton:
... See moreI worry about getting lost in the abstract. If you think far out in some ways, it's empowering because you can be thinking at a bigger scale. But in some ways, you can run the risk of getting lost in the abstract of the philosophical and becoming detached from the work. One of my greatest fears is that I