Camilo Moreno-Salamanca
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Camilo Moreno-Salamanca
Beauty = Intent + Craft
“Maybe the first step in the a real break with the past should be—in the era of the web and YouPorn—a female story that, while its subject is sex, isn’t aphrodisiac. It’s possible that our true erotic self, to begin to express itself, has need of this beginning.”
The Male Story of Sex, 14 April 2018
Beauty is both subjective and objective.
Example: Lines of code may be beautiful to a SWE but gibberish to someone else
Familiar trends tend to be beautiful…beautiful things are usually associated with fire and water, which have been around us since the beginning of our species.
Man-made beauty has a greater variance of perception because it is not natural
Beauty = Permanence + Purpose
From Interintellect talk
Post-it Notes on Beauty
There is a type of beauty where the beauty is derived from the action.
People think more creative people are more ethical.
Beauty exists in a spectrum.
Beauty becomes more objective the more primal things are (e.g. fire, water).
When something is so new that our brain doesn’t know how to process it, we develop an aversion to it.
Books related to beauty:
-Survival of the prettiest
-The Aesthetic Brain
Derek Thompson on housing
https://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Short-Introduction-Roger-Scruton/dp/0199229759
Books related to beauty