… genius isn’t the result of the great men that Carlyle proposed. Instead, the genius stands atop the shoulders of those that came before, whose small incremental advances led to the genius’ breakthrough.
…
It’s not brilliance, it’s simply progress “obtained naturally and cumulatively as a consequence of hard work, directed by intuition, literature, and a bit of luck.”
Taylor Pearson wrote a great article on the limits and dangers of rationalizing complex phenomena, and the opportunities of illegible ‘fat tail’ margins.
Some other gold nuggets in the article:
Reminder to self. Push this one thing, every day. At least once every day. Do this year after year. Long form, short form, that does not matter. It is the consistency that builds the thing.
From Kevin Kelly’s essay in Change This: Better Than Free, eight things that are better than free, eight uncopyable values. Kelly calls these “generatives”, qualities that must grow through cultivation.
Immediacy
Personalization
Interpretation
Authenticity
Accessibility
Embodiment (music is free, a performance expensive)
Patronage (audiences want to pay creators)
Findability (creators need aggregators, which is why publishers, studios, and labels (psL) will never disappear; not for distribution, but for finding audiences and refine attention).
In short, the money in this networked economy does not follow the path of the copies. rather it follows the path of attention, and attention has its own circuits.
Free after Seth Godin:
Don’t watch television
Don’t go to meetings
Instead:
Look at the blank space beween you and the future.
What is high leverage work.
(versus what crappy task is there only to keep you from doing the real work).
Not mine, but from James Clear:
Start (very) small)
Increase in very small ways – 1% better every step
Break habits into chunks
When you slip, get back on track immediately (don’t let the slippage become a habit). Don’t Miss Twice.
Be patient. Stick to your pace. It is not the last sentence that finished the novel.
To think you have to be two persons (or more) at the same time. And you have to disagree with yourself (make sure the one person thinks up ways to justify the opinion of the second person). You have to tolerate conflict, negotiate, compromise. Adjust your thinking.
More importantly, you must not only question your own opinion, but you have to ignore the public opinion.
(After Jordan Peterson)
Is het tijd is om definitief Facebook en Twitter gedag te zeggen? Beide weigeren om aantoonbaar onjuiste uitspraken van politici te verwijderen uit betaalde content. Het zou gaan om nieuwswaardige feiten, die ze niet willen censureren. Daarmee geven deze bedrijven een aantal belangrijke signalen omtrent hun moraal:
Wat beide organisaties niet lijken te bezeffen is dat politici zo makkelijk liegen op Twitter en Facebook, juist is omdát het laagdrempelige mogelijkheden biedt om leugens onder een groot publiek te verspreiden. En deze laagdrempeligheid geeft Twitter en Facebook de morele verantwoordelijkheid om kaf van koren te scheiden op hun platform.
Wellicht belangrijker voor deze platforms is dat het prioriteren van nieuwswaardigheid boven waarheid ook op al hun goedbedoelende adverteerders op het platform neerslaat.
“Alle content op onze platforms zijn potentiële leugens”, zeggen Facebook en Twitter.
Ik denk dat ze daarmee hun eigen graf graven. Ze leven tenslotte van advertenties. Maar mogelijk komen ze tot bezinning komen en hun suffe beslissing terug draaien.
