Victoria Rooke
@victoriatwig
Victoria Rooke
About 1:1 conversation as « Co-creation intimately between two minds » versus the different task of conversation in a group.
The Death of Cool
itscharlibb.substack.com
Our appetite for life is so big that living just one life doesn’t always feel like enough. We want to know what other people’s lives are like, and we want other people to live some of our lives, too.
This life gives you nothing
When your goal is not only to present ideas but to make them palatable and digestible for a distracted audience, the boundaries of the intellectualism start to blur. Ideas are no longer for discussion, they are for consumption.
The death of the public intellectual - the digital meadow -substack
Fitting in is the biggest threat to belonging. True belonging requires us to be who we are. Trying to fit in is betraying yourself. - Brene Brown
DOACEO podcast
To me, the key to keeping taste is to be true to yourself. While I recognize that that sentiment would be more appropriate on a wine mom’s wall hanging, it is surprisingly hard. When no one cares about you and you make objects for the simple joy of creation, you’re under no pressure to conform your taste to anyone. When your audience grows—when... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
The individual and
The below quote by William S. Burroughs is only becoming more relevant with time:
'What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.'
'What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.'
substack.com • Home | Substack
AI and
There’s a magical number of people that are meant to enjoy or experience something…the second you cross that threshold it becomes a pumpkin…greed scaled it to a point where it [Vice] mutated and no longer ressembled what made it special in the first place.
Vice is Broke, Eddie Huang 2024
Documentary for Mubi
« We are writing our story from the beginning from that moment in time. Tranquility comes with anonymity, the ability to write our story every time we meet someone new. When you are known you loose the ability to rewrite or tell from a different perspective, you are owned by the word. » Trevor Noah
https://open.spotify.com/episode/01bkWcFMXRCqISUzHP
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