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As individuals, if we want to be creative, we need to give ourselves space to play and experiment without a set agenda. Amos Tversky famously said that the secret to doing good work is being a little unemployed so you always have hours in the day to waste as you wish. During that wasted time, you’ll likely have your best, most creative ideas.
“Jootsing”: The Key to Creativity
In the last 10 years there have been mobile apps and smartwatches and bed straps that promise to capture how well we are (or aren’t) sleeping.
Ruth Reader • fastcompany.com
reading, watching & listening to and Future of Media
Jerry Seinfeld saying Jerry Seinfeld things is amazing
What do you think has replaced film?
Depression? Malaise? I would say confusion.Disorientation replaced the movie business. Everyone I know in show business, every day, is going, What’s going on? How do you do this? What are we supposed to do now?
Do you feel the same way, or are you grandfathered in?
I’ve done enough stuff that I have my own thing, which is more valuable than it’s ever been. Stand-up is like you’re a cabinetmaker, and everybody needs a guy who’s good with wood.
Break down that metaphor for me.
There’s trees everywhere, but to make a nice table, it’s not so easy. So, the metaphor is that if you have good craft and craftsmanship, you’re kind of impervious to the whims of the industry. Audiences are now flocking to stand-up because it’s something you can’t fake. It’s like platform diving. You could say you’re a platform diver, but in two seconds we can see if you are or you aren’t. That’s what people like about stand-up. They can trust it. Everything else is fake.
The second generation of digital media startups began to finally unbundle the newspaper and move away from ads:
Rex Woodbury • How Twitter and the Internet Broke the News
More broadly, it is essential to expand access to sources of on-chain reputation. At present, crypto tends to skew affluent, male, and white. If the playing field for building on-chain identity isn’t leveled, this new source of reputation will accrue primarily to the already privileged, exacerbating existing social and socioeconomic divides.
Scott Kominers • Decentralized Identity: Your Reputation Travels With You - a16z crypto
“Words on a page just have infinite patience. By writing, you become smarter.” – David Perell
Anthony Pompliano • Writing for Leverage, Teenage Billionaires, The Problem with Mainstream Media, and More - David Perell on Off the Chain, Hosted By Anthony Pompliano • Podcast Notes
What made Figma special was patience and discipline.
Sean Whitney • Figma’s Early Days—How Patience & Discipline Fostered a Killer Product
