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There are so many things that get in the way of the artistic process. For example, any commercial considerations usually get in the way. If you're thinking about making songs that get on the radio, chances are you won't be using your own voice… [It's about] getting closer to the source and not being distracted by any nonsense that would get in the
... See moreRick Rubin • Rick Rubin on Cultivating World-Class Artists (Jay Z, Johnny Cash, etc.), Losing 100+ Pounds, and Breaking Down The Complex (#76)
The websites at the top of Google are not the highest quality websites, but the ones that put the most effort into SEO [1] [2]. There is an entire industry whose purpose is to game their way to the top of search results, which inevitably leads to those results being debased over time.
Dmitri Brereton (dkb) • MarketRank: The Anti-SEO Ranking Algorithm
Gone are the days of needing to be blessed by a particular art critic or granted a degree from a particular art school. Sure, “signal” from particular collectors and marketing by the artist still drives value, but the equal opportunity across the globe for any talented artist to “mint” a piece of work on a particular marketplace and be discovered i... See more
Scott Belsky • The Furry Lisa, CryptoArt, & The New Economy Of Digital Creativity | by Scott Belsky | Feb, 2021 | Medium
Humans are bad at coming up with search queries. Humans are good at incrementally narrowing down options with a series of filters, and pointing where they want to go next. This seems obvious, but we keep building interfaces for finding information that look more like Google Search and less like a map.
thesephist.com • Navigate, don't search
Focused, quality-obsessed publications will take advantage of bundle economics to collect “stars” and monetize them through some combination of subscriptions (less likely) or alternate media forms. Said media forms, like podcasts, are tough to grow on their own, but again, that is what makes them such a great match for writing, which is perfect for... See more
Stratechery • Grantland and the (Surprising) Future of Publishing
Twitter is actually a host of microservices, including a user service (for listing a user’s timeline), a graph service (for tracking your network), a posting service (for posting new tweets), a profile service (for user profiles), a timeline service (for presenting your timeline), etc.; the architecture to tie all of these together and operate at s... See more
Ben Thompson • Back to the Future of Twitter
And easy sells well. Thus more and more products are based on the promise to make our lives easier by using increasingly complex technologies with ever simpler interfaces.
Ralph Ammer • Make me think! - Ralph Ammer
Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive. This is what all its functions and features ultimately achieve: cameras deliver ... See more
phone addiction and Human Stuff
-Sam Kriss