Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
I perceive value, I confer value, I create value. I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make ‘lists.’ The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest).
... See moreIn just under one generation, we moved from appreciating albums as cohesive works to consuming individual tracks, and then to music becoming reduced to muzak: background noise for gaming, viral videos, or endless scrolling. Disappearing is music as an art in its own right, which commands sustained attention and deep engagement. A song’s success is... See more
Default Friend • No, Culture is Not Stuck
Challenging imposed narratives of doom by using anomalous phenomena and awe to reopen our sense of possibility
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That's the same thing these magical moments, these inklings of awe, reconnections to each other, or the divine, or the everything. That's what they do.
They're like the deja vu that helps Neo recognize a glitch in the Matrix, or when Katniss shoots an arrow at the sky in Hunger Games to reveal it's just a dome.
Despite all evidence to the contrary,
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most people's definition of "trying" is contingent on not taking on any reputational risk, not investing more than two weeks of time, not investing more than 2 months of their salary, and giving up after the second obstacle
the world is free for those who want it
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I believe I am being confronted with this impossible task: making a perfect idea into a perfect creation . What I fail to recognise is that the idea only seems perfect precisely because it has no counterpart in reality .