Thomas
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Thomas
Social media intensify this kind of communication without community. You cannot forge a public sphere out of influencers and followers. Digital communities have the form of commodities; ultimately, they are commodities.
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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh
Here is an alternative way of looking at the mind. Imagine that your mind is a kind of radiant sheath that surrounds your physical body. It extends from every cell of your body and it permeates your body. Perhaps this ‘mental body’ extends far out into the room in which you are currently sitting. From this alternative view, you are living inside
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“I don’t remember ever being forced to accept compromises, but I have willingly accepted constraints.”
— Charles Eames
The creative power of constraints
We are so focused on evaluating our social networks and broadcast platforms from a distribution perspective that we often forget to analyze the other side of the two-sided content marketplace: creation. But our current internet culture is as much driven by frictionless distribution as it is by frictionless creation.