Join 📚 Jim's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Jim's read, .
Digital media has done away with the very thing that created our sense of history: imperfect memory. The process of creating a historical narrative (or any story, for that matter) involves discarding an enormous amount of information. It’s like chipping away at a big block of marble until you’re left with a captivating statue. Forgetting is a feature, not a bug. It makes us feel like we’re moving forward through time, rather than standing still or running in circles.
How Digital Media Distorts Our Sense of Time
aaronzlewis.com
Diabelli was a composer and publisher who invited 51 composers to contribute one variation each on a waltz theme he wrote. The list includes Schubert, the 11-year-old Franz Liszt, Mozart’s son — and Beethoven. Everybody but Beethoven did exactly what Diabelli asked: they wrote one variation. Beethoven wrote 33.
What Can Musical Variations Teach Us About Creativity?
nytimes.com
Exactly, fictitious capital operates by pulling imagined future surplus value into the present. And because global capital currently struggles to find high growth returns in traditional manufacturing, it floods into these grandiose narratives. The narrative literally is the product that sustains the financial architecture.
An Interesting Experiment With LLMs
jjn1
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise