I just launched Lazarus Archive last week
For years, I’ve been passionately archiving stunning historic art in my spare time, hunting down treasures from estate sales, libraries, and thrift stores.
When the normal script stops working you get a world where the people who end up winning are either very disagreeable, have psychopathic risk tolerance, or are literally autistic.
would be very interesting to still have lobsters this size around today. where's little jimmy? oh he got too close to the beach and was dragged away by a lobster. very tragic. but such is life in new england.
We have built machinery that can produce, on demand, any image the human mind can conceive. We can summon a photograph of a thing that has never existed, and we can do it a thousand times before lunch. And what does the artistic young person want, with all this miraculous apparatus at his/her disposal?
They want the carbon copy. They wants the mistakes included. They want the Department of the Navy's interoffice memorandum from the autumn of 1947. The more tarnished the better. We've started digging for novelty..... in 1947.
Designers are hyped for the UFO files the way people used to be hyped for new music. Eighty-year-old typewritten pages feel like a wellspring now. I don't know what that says about our culture but I know it's important
having the conviction to work on a project for an entire year, experiment, fail and get right back up again is extremely hard. It’s also probably the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done with my life. @harrybthomas encouraged me to follow my own dream. never looked back since.
@hardeep_gambhir I've been working on startups since I was 15, you can choose to pursue university for the experience alone. I chose to go to college for the development it provided me. I've left it with life long mentors, best friends and lessons I couldn't of learned outside of it. It's nuanced
say it with me now. experts are fake, smart generalists rule the world, everything is designed by people no smarter than you, and courage is in shorter supply than genius
The fact that we’re bipedal and walk around with our throats and soft vitals exposed shows that we’re by nature altruistic beings that begin each interaction with the assumption of trust, and everything we’ve accomplished from hunting mammoths to going to the moon was possible because of our radical ability to work in teams