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• Ta-Nehisi Coates Is an Optimist Now

  "[O]ur politics occurs within the imagination of the citizen. If I don’t believe that black people are human, it really doesn’t matter what you say to me about policy. So the question is: How do we decide who gets to be human and who doesn’t? How do we decide who our heroes are, and who our heroes aren’t? All of that is tied together in the stories we tell ourselves. [...]"

  Stored on: 2019-03-17 20:53

  Tags: #storytelling #law #politics #narrative #black #BlackLivesMatter #citizenship #democrats #democracy #usa

• The Modern Trap of Feeling Obligated to Turn Hobbies Into Hustles

  We don’t have to monetize or optimize or organize our joy. Hobbies don’t have to be imbued with a purpose beyond our own enjoyment of them. They, alone, can be enough.

  Stored on: 2019-03-14 00:04

  Tags: #creativity #work #art #capitalism #business #attention #careers #career

• On Stevie Wonder’s “Living for the City” and the NYC Skyline

  Far more ideology than art, the skyline, as Stevie knew, signifies nothing. This is why you don’t look up. New York is what’s in front of you.

  Stored on: 2019-03-13 14:41

  Tags: #nyc #attention #presence #newyork #music #cities #safety #architecture #language #surveillance

• The Six Main Arcs in Storytelling, as Identified by an A.I. - The Atlantic - Pocket

  “This is an active area of research,” Reagan says, “and there are a lot of hard problems yet to be solved. In addition to the plot, structure, and emotional arc, to write great stories, a computer will need to create characters and dialogue that are compelling and meaningful.”

  Stored on: 2019-03-13 01:19

  Tags: #story #storytelling #AI #computers #narrative #creativity #design #fiction

• “I Felt Like I Was Being Physically Ripped Apart”: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Opens Up About Her New Fame, Trump, and Life in the Bubble | Vanity Fair

  “A lot of days, I don’t want to talk, believe it or not . . . The reality of the situation is that if I don’t define this moment, and if I don’t use my voice, then they will fill the void.”

  Stored on: 2019-03-12 13:49

  Tags: #politics #democrats #nyc #communication #attention #reputation #presence #washington

• “Random Acts of Flyness” Creator Terence Nance On Making Solange’s When I Get Home Film | Pitchfork

  The first jobs I had in film were making music for TV shows, opening theme songs and bumpers. Then I’d compose music for my friends’ short films. Then I would design posters and obviously, I was editing and animating and doing all that stuff. But I didn’t have a business card that said all those things. I was just like, trying to survive.

  Stored on: 2019-03-11 14:09

  Tags: #creativity #business #film #cinema #television #friendship #design #identity

• Meet duendita, a Spiritual Soul Singer Who Worships at the Altar of Self-Love | Pitchfork

  I also think about how being alive is not a consensual experience. Late at night, when things get really weird, I ask my friends, like, “You would tell me if you asked to be born, right? And if you find out that you did ask, let me know as soon as possible, because I want to know if I agreed to this shit.”

  Stored on: 2019-03-10 19:08

  Tags: #identity #music #nyc #creativity #awyeah #presence #religion #spirituality

• The attention economy is dead, but Fortnite might hold the key to an answer - The Verge

  “It’s not that it’s particularly better or worse suited for the attention economy than others, but it does strike a chord with generations, who typically have more time to allocate, which is why it is doing so well in the attention economy,” says Severin. “I believe it’s more a matter of a generationally cultural shift: Fortnite is among the first to build a truly successful business model of selling digital items which don’t give players any progress in the actual game. They are just cosmetic” Twenty years ago, he continued, people defined themselves by the clothes they wore and what they listened to. “Today, consumers’ personal image is in much larger part defined in the virtual world.”

  Stored on: 2019-03-07 11:37

  Tags: #advertising #media #games #business #online #app #economy #attention #culture #identity #relationships

• Fighting for climate action with 'The Uninhabitable Earth' author David Wallace-Wells: podcast and transcript

  I was just emailing with William Gibson, a sci-fi novelist, and I was thinking Oh, I'm just editing at the last minute this little bit in the book about how climate change is gonna make science fiction writers seem even more prophetic going forward. He was like, I hate when people call us prophets. We got everything wrong. We got absolutely everything wrong. Everything but the mood, and I was like, No no no.

  Stored on: 2019-03-06 21:45

  Tags: #climate #nonfiction #fiction #sciencefiction #storytelling #science #books #podcast

• Spirited Media is selling off its local sites and pivoting to consulting » Nieman Journalism Lab

  “Local news scared certain investors outside of the strategic space. They said, ‘we love local journalism, but it just scares the hell out of us,'” Brady said.

  Stored on: 2019-03-06 19:03

  Tags: #journalism #local #location #media #business #entrepreneurs #philadelphia #denver

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