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“if you think, “i don’t like it but someone else will,” you are not making art for yourself. you’ve found yourself in the business of commerce, which is fine; it just may not be art. there’s no bright line between the two. the more formulaic your creation is, the more it hugs the shore of what’s been popular, the less like art it’s likely to be”
— Oct 16, 2024 01:59PM
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“because there’s an endless amount of data available to us and we have a limited bandwidth to conserve, we might consider carefully curating the quality of what we allow in.
the objective is not to learn to mimic greatness, but to calibrate our internal meter for greatness. so we can better make thousands of choices that might ultimately lead to our own great work.”
— Oct 15, 2024 01:33PM
the objective is not to learn to mimic greatness, but to calibrate our internal meter for greatness. so we can better make thousands of choices that might ultimately lead to our own great work.”