We don’t abandon the old because it’s obsolete or inefficient, it only goes away when its cultural roots dry up| Hot Takes
You should have have your shields up when viewing anything online - from both new and traditional media| www.hottakes.space
Are you using them consciously or not?| www.hottakes.space
Modernity has demoralized most of our peers in ways they can't see| www.hottakes.space
You will always be boring if you can't make your own choices| www.hottakes.space
Our freedom to share links with our own digital communities has in many places already been taken from us. Bleaker: most say nothing about this.| www.hottakes.space
As a creative individual, surviving Earth where banality and spectacle reign could drive you mad, finding rebellion might be your only chance| www.hottakes.space
Are you shipping work that compounds to a better future for yourself and the world? Today is a great day to start...| www.hottakes.space
When we decided to make an art form part of a corporate machine optimized for averages, the soul of pop music was destroyed in the process.| www.hottakes.space
There's a group of people who badly want a perfectly pristine internet that always conforms to their beliefs (they will never be happy)| www.hottakes.space
Another update on the state of social - Bluesky and the return of BBS-era website tribalism| Hot Takes
Your life is only bad if you can't commit to things, and we have a crisis of commitment in modernity| www.hottakes.space
It is the rare person in modernity who can balance the two. But if you want to leave a lasting impact (as opposed to just having fleeting, low-value attention) you have to.| www.hottakes.space
Some are genuinely well meaning, most are shilling fear to sell newsletters, consulting services or get attention. It's just human nature...| www.hottakes.space
Many are worried about AI taking inspiration from their ideas. It couldn't be more misguided. The internet is a copy-paste machine - being copied is the goal...| www.hottakes.space
People hate that the professional managerial class is neutering everything into a soulless blandscape| Hot Takes
Fully outsourcing your writing to AI is a slow erosion of personal agency and autonomy| Hot Takes
I don't really care about material rarity so don't collect pricey things or buy expensive watches, but you might - if only because you evolved to| www.hottakes.space
Some is actually important for society to function, but diminishing returns are real, and we don't know the line| Hot Takes
American Eagle is advertising jeans ...and nothing else| Hot Takes
Life is too short, and anyway you actually control this one| www.hottakes.space
Police accountability is important, but few talk about the other side of the trade| www.hottakes.space
If you still think 'follower count' is meaningful indicator of anything, we badly must rehabilitate you| www.hottakes.space
Many legacy trades are overpriced, influencers are unserious, and AI bros are building fake prestige| www.hottakes.space
If you don't feel rich here, you probably never will| www.hottakes.space
Also happy July 4th week to all - congrats, you made it halfway through the year| www.hottakes.space
Learning is great, just don't get too far ahead of your actual abilities| Hot Takes
Two recent pieces of research come to the same conclusion, as does common sense| Hot Takes
We're at a weird point in history, where people immediately write off ideas simply because a person (or group) they don't like said them. It's silly and childish...| www.hottakes.space
These apps are refined sugars and seed oils for the mind, causing a comparable type of mental sickness as those have on the body| www.hottakes.space
If you don't decide this, the world will for you (and it won't end well)| www.hottakes.space
And the world and music biz will be better for it: corporately-manufactured stars are a blight on culture, creativity and possibly themselves| www.hottakes.space
Since everything seems to be controversial now, some perspective to keep you sane| Hot Takes
They might dress differently but all think the same, and demand the most adherence| www.hottakes.space
Let's explore what happened on issues media pros and marketers should pay attention to| www.hottakes.space
Desire for ever-increasing material wealth or followers is mid, nurturing craft, discipline and relationships offers true enlightenment| www.hottakes.space
It's not the office that make you unhappy, it's having a long commute ...research shows this, and it's been true long before the pandemic| www.hottakes.space
The left is clueless, the right must reject the trolls and grifters| www.hottakes.space
If you cull friends in the name of efficiency or ideological purity, the problem is you| www.hottakes.space
The far left is just as religious as the far right, just expressed differently| www.hottakes.space
There's a cottage industry of creators and audiences watching others torch their potential on empty, solipsistic games (or sleeping with 1,000 people)| www.hottakes.space
The internet used to surface cool and creative things, now it mostly doesn't| www.hottakes.space
Without proper leadership, the world devolves into a significantly worse place| www.hottakes.space
In the 90s and early 2000s, I was not just a forum geek, I also ran my own communities. Much has changed since, but also remained the same...| www.hottakes.space
DEI was simply Marxism in corporate buzzwords: it never accomplished what it advertised and merely divided the country| www.hottakes.space
We have strayed very far from how we evolved to live, but it's fixable| www.hottakes.space
Let's discuss a favorite meme of the FOMO crowd| www.hottakes.space
Sharing from personal experience - I'm not classically trained and have written 10 albums, software makes it possible. And, no AI is required (might even ruin the fun).| www.hottakes.space
Today’s post is far more personal than usual. I am writing it in the hopes sharing my story helps someone.| www.hottakes.space
"it's an older post, but it checks out"| www.hottakes.space
Millennials were lied to by well-meaning people who deeply misunderstand reality| www.hottakes.space
To actually be healthy, you can't just exercise or take ozempic, you have to consciously remove toxins from your diet| www.hottakes.space
People are spending a stunning 68 full days a year on their mobile devices. If you're feeling burned out, it's near-guaranteed the problem is your phone.| www.hottakes.space
Are you chasing your dream or someone else's?| www.hottakes.space
Many people, save for perhaps artists, lack the transcendent in their lives, which is precisely the reason they're depressed, anxious and lack direction| www.hottakes.space
Anyone who posts silly lists like "15 AI tools you can't miss" is truly the one who is lost| www.hottakes.space
Let's put the future of creative fields into the hands of individuals who don't even know what creativity is ...what could go wrong| www.hottakes.space
There are pathological levels of optimization in modernity, much of it makes no sense, and the last few percent isn't even worth it. You're a human, not an insect...| www.hottakes.space
Many - from media upstarts to shockingly the New York Times - all seem to badly want to invest in the low quality 'subprime market' attention bubble. It couldn't be dumber.| www.hottakes.space
Today's tribal zealotry demands people pick a side ...resisting is a superpower| www.hottakes.space
You are the only one stopping yourself from doing anything differently, and good news - you are also the one in control| www.hottakes.space
I did this over the weekend and it seemed like a good benchmark for fitness. I posted about it, some disagreed, so let's discuss why they're wrong...| www.hottakes.space
Religions nailed marketing before anyone else in modernity, so let's talk about it| www.hottakes.space
In a world of infinite choice, why destroy your soul with factory-manufactured poison?| www.hottakes.space
Finding joy despite being trapped in a bureaucratic dystopia| www.hottakes.space
You wouldn't eat instant mac & cheese for every meal, this would make your body very sick. So, why do the musical equivalent to your mind?| www.hottakes.space
One movie has all the hallmarks of modern/lazy storytelling - including the now-clichéd anti-tech stance - presenting a perfect ex of Hollywood's vacuous state| www.hottakes.space
The Borg present a great metaphor for warning against creeping authoritarian socialism on the far left| www.hottakes.space
A simple concept to cure any digital FOMO you might have in modern times| www.hottakes.space
Much work is needed if we hope for the world of atoms to improve once again, and along with it our optimism and vitality| www.hottakes.space
A simple mental model to bring joy: the less context something has or the more that context is faked, the less you should care about it| www.hottakes.space
Maybe AI eventually lets us escape Earth and live forever, but in the near-term it will create two tiers of knowledge-economy worker| www.hottakes.space
Everything is getting blander: creative sectors like music and movies are a shell of themselves, entertainment championed and art mocked. But no one is forcing you to join the circus...| www.hottakes.space
"Influencer Influenza" has crept over the marketing (and social media) world. People are obsessed with the notion of influence. But what if they're all going about it wrong?| www.hottakes.space
It's unstated, but no one cares you drive a BMW or wear a Rolex here. It's great you enjoy them. We care about your ideas and contributions.| www.hottakes.space
In creative fields, managers and organizations more concerned with process than results will ultimately optimize themselves down to nothing| www.hottakes.space
