There’s something deeply special about choosing the space for thought and iteration. As someone who’s done live painting, I see similarities with other single session art (live streaming, timelapse): as art creation with a performative aspect. It’s proper art, but not the method for breakthroughs.

If you are in any creative or copyright dependent org of any kind, NOW is the time to speak up. You have until March 15 11:59 pm EST to send a note to the WhiteHouse on why we need to follow our current laws.

We all lose if tech’s deranged agenda passes.

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Heh! Yeah, I’m doing a little tailoring per platform. More business wrapper there, more whole-person here.

Subtext: finally decided it’s time to cancel my Spotify sub (discomfort about system effects for musicians), and plan my data migration project (spite).

Just one drop in the user bucket, but it’s their practices that caused me to put ample thought into what I want and how to achieve it elsewhere.

Social pressure may be the final straw for many, but don't underestimate the erosion power of users' discomfort from how they are treated...and the fiery momentum that can build and self-replicate from sheer spite.

If you want to write heroes in the year 2025, you have to decide what they stand for, and then stand for it. The mealy-mouthed, offend-no-one approach no longer works. People respond to the Walter Whites bc you can put truth in their mouths. So put truth in the mouths of the good guys.

The next era will probably be AI-derived assets, and it’s too early to fully understand what feel that will impart.

It caught on in the late 2010’s and has stuck…probably because it replaces the clunky purple-people shorthand for diversity (the previous era of illustration), is significantly lower cost to create, and gives devs something fun to do with the toolkit they have.

Improved!