Sterling Proffer
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Sterling Proffer
The industrial economy laid claim to our bodies. The knowledge economy laid claim to our minds. Now the creative economy is laying claim to our souls. Like the farmer with the proverbial pig, we use everything except the squeal. The squeal is when we realize what’s happening to us.
William Deresiewicz • The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech
Using A.I., Hollywood Agency and Tech Start-Up Aim to Protect Artists
nytimes.com
“There Has to Be a Line”: Substack’s Founders Dive Headfirst Into the Culture Wars
Joe Pompeovanityfair.com
There is such urgency in the multitude of crises we face, it can make it hard to remember that in fact it is urgency thinking (urgent constant unsustainable growth) that got us to this point, and that our potential success lies in doing deep, slow, intentional work.
Adrienne Maree Brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, 0)
Stop optimizing for a CAC:LTV ratio of 1:3
elenaverna.substack.com
Emergent properties are linked to another highly promising feature: flexibility. Earlier generations of ai systems were good for only one purpose, often a pretty specific one. The new models can be reassigned from one type of problem to another with relative ease by means of fine tuning. It is a measure of the importance of this trait that, within... See more
Huge “foundation models” are turbo-charging AI progress
In the past thirty years what it means to be an artist has dramatically changed.
Before the internet, being an artist meant operating in a very specific area where the gatekeepers, critics, and ways of doing things were well-structured and defined. You as the artist plugged into this system if invited (most artists... See more
instagram.comTo understand your adjacent users, it is helpful to understand the attributes of who is successful today and why they are successful. The reason this is helpful is that your adjacent user is different on one or more of these attributes (but not all). These attributes create vectors of expansion.