TWN / Issue 14: The Lost Art of Anticipation
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TWN / Issue 14: The Lost Art of Anticipation
Postmodern society has a surfeit of analysts and an impoverishment of artists.
Dee Hock • Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition Volume 2
Buried beneath the surface ambitions of millions of office and knowledge workers around the world are dreams of working on things that are more challenging. This is the inspiration deficit. Almost any path that can be mapped and planned in today’s world has likely been sucked dry of the challenge that people desire.
Paul Millerd • The Great Creator Arbitrage Opportunity | #200 🥳
In a setting where activity provides a proxy for productivity, the introduction of tools like email (and, later, Slack) that make it possible to visibly signal your busyness with minimal effort inevitably led to more and more of the average knowledge worker’s day being dedicated to talking about work, as fast and frantically as possible, through in
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