The New Stack of Entertainment, Tensions of the AI Age, & Navigating Cambrian Explosions

Last night at dinner talking about subculture stuff and I bring up my standard boring/reductive Q about “how punk skate hip hop etc had monoculture to rebel against, so what now?,” and a brilliant friend answered straight up, “AI will be mainstream monoculture-esque, and is at its core boring and average and uncreative, and that is what people will... See more

So much of humanity has been all about "HOW to do" something (aka skill development). Our educational system, product onboardings - and entire categories of products, were all about teaching us how. Now it feels like we're entering an era of humanity all about "WHAT to do" (as ideation, writing and application development and deployment all collap... See more

I spend 90% of my time thinking about stories and narratives, and like so many other things, narrative formation is getting decentralized. This is my attempt to figure out what’s happening and where it’s heading.Crafting and telling stories is part of what makes humans humans. Stories let us coordinate across time and space. Stories are undeniably ... See more

The rise of immersive experiences will mainstream 3D creation.