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Andy W
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Intensity as Violist
Poetry by Michelle Burke
Poetry by Michelle Burke
Weekend reading/listening/watching
First, two essays on memory dropped on the same day! - one from @simondlr
"we’re sometimes supposed to forget things"
https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/digital-memories-hoarder-pruner-deleter
First, two essays on memory dropped on the same day! - one from @simondlr
"we’re sometimes supposed to forget things"
https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/digital-memories-hoarder-pruner-deleter
"Merely imitating your heroes is not flattering them. Transforming their work into something of your own is how you flatter them. Adding something to the world that only you can add"
- Austin Kleon
feels like this applies to many things
- Austin Kleon
feels like this applies to many things
"An artist is an anti-social creature in a room doing something by themself"
- Richard Prince
- Richard Prince
i actually like judging a book, movie, record by its cover
the cover can tell you a story in and of itself, draw you in to want to learn more
it's like a cold open to an artist's vision - im all for more of that
what are some elite album covers, one's that tell you a story and would make you give a listen knowing nothing else
this one, for one
the cover can tell you a story in and of itself, draw you in to want to learn more
it's like a cold open to an artist's vision - im all for more of that
what are some elite album covers, one's that tell you a story and would make you give a listen knowing nothing else
this one, for one
This essay is an example of original thinking and very very good writing
It challenges the orthodoxy around consumer subscriptions by defining something called the "trust tax" and the "economic value of trust"
Recommended!
https://getlightswitch.substack.com/p/consumer-subscriptions-are-actually
It challenges the orthodoxy around consumer subscriptions by defining something called the "trust tax" and the "economic value of trust"
Recommended!
https://getlightswitch.substack.com/p/consumer-subscriptions-are-actually
Reuniting on stage with your tribute band is an elite way to reunite
https://youtu.be/Tb_OWQ4-Ivg?si=MCFLJSrnA6_pMF97
https://youtu.be/Tb_OWQ4-Ivg?si=MCFLJSrnA6_pMF97
"I called it re-photography. I didn't know what I was doing"
wonderful, wonderful conversation about art, how it happens, why it happens and how someone jumps into the unknown, the adjacent possible, assuming there is no way it could work
wonderful, wonderful conversation about art, how it happens, why it happens and how someone jumps into the unknown, the adjacent possible, assuming there is no way it could work
"It was electrifying to think about how much more music there was in the world left to hear"
Hua Hsu - Stay True
Hua Hsu - Stay True
Recommended, highly
Harry Law with a very different take that most of what I am seeing
fwiw I have always has a distaste for the word "slop" as I guess I find it elitist, judgmental and ahistorical
This essay put into words why I thought that, better than I could have
https://www.learningfromexamples.com/p/the-slop-must-flow
Harry Law with a very different take that most of what I am seeing
fwiw I have always has a distaste for the word "slop" as I guess I find it elitist, judgmental and ahistorical
This essay put into words why I thought that, better than I could have
https://www.learningfromexamples.com/p/the-slop-must-flow
"You know how to talk wisely, my friend.
Be aware of too much wisdom!"
- Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Be aware of too much wisdom!"
- Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
this is, well, radically innovative
Goole AI co-scientist
collective intelligence in action
https://research.google/blog/accelerating-scientific-breakthroughs-with-an-ai-co-scientist/
Goole AI co-scientist
collective intelligence in action
https://research.google/blog/accelerating-scientific-breakthroughs-with-an-ai-co-scientist/
then that thing happens where you serendipitously hear a lyric and fall in love with music all over again
"I don't think that
I'm as smart as
You think I am"
https://soundcloud.com/amnesie-557964119/mad-iris-name-tag
"I don't think that
I'm as smart as
You think I am"
https://soundcloud.com/amnesie-557964119/mad-iris-name-tag
"Manhattan's architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion"
- Rem Koolhaas
- Rem Koolhaas
"No matter how corny a song can be, no matter how cringe worthy, it could very well be someone’s personal anthem"
Over the past week or so I realized I have been thinking about LLMs incorrectly. I had considered them to be their own "things" that will let us do "stuff"
Instead, LLMs are components of "things" that will "collectively" let us reimagine e stuff
My colleague @mandel wrote about this last November (https://matthewmandel.com/2024/11/20/collaborative-intelligence/ )but I didn't fully grok it until the other day (and then it lit my chaotic curiosity on fire)
Instead, LLMs are components of "things" that will "collectively" let us reimagine e stuff
My colleague @mandel wrote about this last November (https://matthewmandel.com/2024/11/20/collaborative-intelligence/ )but I didn't fully grok it until the other day (and then it lit my chaotic curiosity on fire)
am attracted to "edge" ideas
Meaning, those non-obvious ideas that when you read about make you think yeaaaaaa
Essay recommendation: "Autonomous Science" from Mackenzie at Compound
https://www.mackenziemorehead.com/autonomous-science-part-i-everythings-an-api-away/
Meaning, those non-obvious ideas that when you read about make you think yeaaaaaa
Essay recommendation: "Autonomous Science" from Mackenzie at Compound
https://www.mackenziemorehead.com/autonomous-science-part-i-everythings-an-api-away/
Thought, from Brian Greene, that I have always found compelling: maybe we are alone, and that is a feature, not a bug
poignant, intense, beautiful
so much acting done with so few words
this one lingers long after the credits
so much acting done with so few words
this one lingers long after the credits
i mean ..........
maybe the best to do it, completely on their own terms
electric and aggressive
https://youtu.be/B6nqIbnDGmI?si=kwcAb5J9Z5IJjDEc
maybe the best to do it, completely on their own terms
electric and aggressive
https://youtu.be/B6nqIbnDGmI?si=kwcAb5J9Z5IJjDEc
remarkable
song choice
song performance
i cant wax poetic enough about this performance - a nod to the heads - which brings me almost to tears in its intensity, poignancy
that you can tell - and see! - how nervous timmy is whilst playing, only makes it more affecting
have watched dozens of time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByFMSu9qC5U
song choice
song performance
i cant wax poetic enough about this performance - a nod to the heads - which brings me almost to tears in its intensity, poignancy
that you can tell - and see! - how nervous timmy is whilst playing, only makes it more affecting
have watched dozens of time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByFMSu9qC5U
recommended essay
does the intersection of major technology advancements with boredom = chaos?
https://mhdempsey.substack.com/p/boredom-chaos-and-the-experimental
does the intersection of major technology advancements with boredom = chaos?
https://mhdempsey.substack.com/p/boredom-chaos-and-the-experimental
i went to temple this morning (iykyk)
