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