Persoonlijke aantekeningen door Niek de Greef over cultuur, politiek, media en maatschappij. Doorleefde essays over het hedendaagse leven.

Pronoia

Pronoia, just learned about this word.

… a person suffering from paranoia feels that persons or entities are conspiring against them, a person experiencing pronoia feels that the world around them conspires to do them good.

Happy suffering.

Kevin Kelly: eight uncopyable values

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.

Save time

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).

How to change a habit

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.