The reason taste and aesthetics are important is they are a sublimated form of INSTINCT, your biological life force, the spark that separates you from machine
The year is 2029
The S&P 500 is up 842% year-over-year
98.3% of excess returns are attributable to seven leading AI companies, collectively referred to by analysts by the MOLLUSK acronym: MoltBook, OpenClaw, LobsterNet, Lamprey Labs, Urchin, ShellStream, and KrillStack
I must, on the morning coffee-surge of exultation & omnipotence, begin my novel this summer & sweat it out like a school-year - rough draft done by Christmas. 2/4/58
No one talks about this, but the secret to creative excellence is having 8 projects with concurrent deadlines and overlapping meetings and being in a constant state of panic
Jung said you can cure a psychotic patient if you can make him creative. In other words, if what is destroying him from within can be brought forth in writing or painting or some other form, then he can be cured. What we try to do is to help people bring forth the Self.~von Franz
Yearly reminder that Bret Victor has a frequently updated catalog of some of the very best material relevant to computation / user interface design over here: https://t.co/StdQcIl92q