Philip Soriano
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Philip Soriano
the gap in sentencing is six times greater for men versus women than it is for blacks versus whites.26 Black boys, of course, bear the dual burden of both racism and sexism.
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
Where am I going with design? That's a hard question because none of us has the ability to understand our path until it's over.
On the Shoulders of Giants
The insatiable goals to acquire more, succeed conspicuously, and be as attractive as possible lead us to objectify one another, and even ourselves. When people see themselves as little more than their attractive bodies, jobs, or bank accounts, it brings great suffering…You become a heartless taskmaster to yourself, seeing yourself as nothing more
... See moreArthur C. Brooks • The Satisfaction Trap
“Even if a group of people can agree on how to treat people in the moment, consensus can change at any moment. Today’s virtues can become tomorrow’s vices. Like a sand castle, the tenets of morality can be destroyed by the tide of public opinion.” — David Pernell
Like girls, boys openly express their desire for genuine connections with others, including with boys. They reveal the human capacity for mutual understanding, care, and empathy and demonstrate remarkably astute abilities to read the human world. Yet as they reach middle to late adolescence and as expectations of manhood intensify, they begin to ex... See more
Barriers to entry for his peers, Palley explained, include a sense of ignorance. “We’re used to seeing everything online — click to browse and click to buy — and there is huge transparency and the commercial art world is very opaque and hard to navigate.”
“That doesn’t work for us,” Palley continued. “My generation, we want to see numbers, we want t... See more
“That doesn’t work for us,” Palley continued. “My generation, we want to see numbers, we want t... See more
Where Are Young Art Collectors and Museum Donors?
Where Are Young Art Collectors and Museum Donors?
The art world is concerned about where the next generation of buyers and supporters is going to come from.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/arts/design/young-collectors-museum-donors.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
I often think about how the internet is a collective consciousness for humanity and how the first 30 years of the internet didn’t create products with that context in mind and lost the reverence of that sacredness. The products created didn’t have that aspiration in mind and simply wanted to monetize and grow. Sublime is the first product in a long
... See moreNot using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive. This is what all its functions and features ultimately achieve: cameras deliver ... See more
The science of memory reveals why writing is such an effective way to learn. Putting ideas into your own words forces you to internalize them. Rather than memorizing disparate pieces of information, writing helps you deduce their logic and bring them together into a coherent whole. Moreover, the process of brainstorming, typing, and editing our wor... See more