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Making art is not selfish; it’s for the rest of us. If you don’t do your thing you are cheating us.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
When you give up autonomy of goals (i.e., cede agency over deciding what’s worth doing/caring about and why) you can generally expect to get a lot more work. There is always a lot of demand for people who will do what they’re told within a sharply bounded scope, no questions asked. And you will tend to take the work, because you will start to measure your life by the numbers that get driven up by sheer quantity of work—dollars, fawning testimonials, awards. And you will find yourself getting overworked and exhausted.
The Art of Gig, Volume 1
Venkatesh Rao, Grace Witherell, and Jenna Dixon
Assumptions were dangerous but necessary. The important thing was to update them when the world changed, avoid cognitive lock-in.
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