"...the Next Great Impasse is always just as big and as terrifying as the last one.
"The only solace you can get is knowing that you dealt with the Last Great Impasse."
A late #caturday post. Last weekend we got another cat. It took a few days, but Harley and Walter are friends now.
"At other times, uncertainty reveals itself in less visible increments through loss of clarity, clouded vision, and lack of creative motivation. This subtle and slow evolution can be even more disorienting because we don’t know exactly when we lost sight of our North Star or maybe even where we started...."
"...The truth of a creative life is that uncertainty will come for all of us. In a moment, through the tedium of life or by insidious intent, we’ll arrive in a place of disconnection, doubt, and dare I say it—discontent."
- Hugh Weber
mailchi.mp/thegreatdiscontent/radical-acts-of-resistance-and-exploration-634754
"...creative fields have become dominated and defined by convention and cliché. Distinctiveness has died. In every field we look at, we find that everything looks the same.
"Welcome to the age of average."
"In contrast, on social networks centered around people and feeds, content recommendations made by machine-learning algorithms sourced from users you don’t know feel out of place, incongruous, interruptive, and sleazy. They feel like what they are: desperate attempts to juice engagement based on a machine’s idea of what you want or need. They feel like ads."
nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/04/why-every-app-now-feels-like-tiktok-but-worse.html
