Sublime

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

― Henry David Thoreau

The content industry has stumbled into a coordination failure of brobdingnagian proportions. Everyone produces more content because everyone else produces more content, and the Nash equilibrium of this game is a world where infinite noise competes for zero attention.

We are, collectively, a grinding, screaming machine that converts human creativity... See more

Half of Silicon Valley talks about taste now the way sommelier hobbyists talk about terroir: with enormous confidence, zero productive capacity, and the unmistakable pleasure of smelling their own farts. They think having taste means knowing the right references and owning a Noguchi lamp. It doesn't. Taste, real taste, has always been a darkly... See more

GRIMES: I think that’s the huge privilege of an artist. Nothing can hurt you because every bit of pain you’ve lived allows you to make great things.