Good to hear. And not really. I acknowledge the narcisistic aspect, but wouldn’t consider it a struggle. I’d like to think that this was just my own subjective experience and not necessarily applicable in the same way to others.
Seems to me like you did learn something. That you were not a steel-willed journyman prone to epiphanies. I know it may sound silly, but there is some true value to that. Who’s to say those experiences didn’t speed up something you may orherwise would have spent even more time and resources on pursuing.
Disclaimer: I of course do not know you or anything about you except for your comment.
Psilocybin, MDMA and Salvia divinorum have had a profound effect on my life and the person I am today. Of course it’s impossible to say who I would be, had I not tried these.
Has it been for the better? Maybe. For the worse? Maybe.
I do know that they are experiences I would not want to be without. They taught me a great desl about myself and helped shape my perception of the inner and outer world surrounding me. Am I smarter and more enlightened, probably not. May be I even shaved off an IQ point or two in the proces.
But having my reality altered, even totally disintegrated (salvia) certainly paved the way for acceptance of other states of mind that people may exist in. This is very valuable to me, as it helped break down a black and white coccon I see many people live in (some break free by orher means, some never escape it).
To me, it was bungee jumping for the mind but from the comfort of my own home. It certainly has helped me take on and be comfortable with opposing viewpoints, being very tolerant in general and able to reach further into the corners of my mind.
It’s been decades since those first jumps, but the effects will last me a lifetime.
This!
I’m still suprised people behave like owning an iPhone is some kind of government mandate.
Unhappy? Choose differently!
Don’t like Apple, buy a pear.
It’s like listening to offroaders complaining their Mercedes Maybach gets stuck in the mud.
“a great deal of fancy equipment — from drones, gimbals, dollies, industrial set lighting, and other recording accessories — is still required to make iPhone footage look this good.”
But that’s just a standard requirement to make stuff look that good.
Slap a cheap lens on an Alexa and light like an amateur and you will get a subpar video-result with the only redeeming factor being the sensor.
And sure, the sensor (or medium) does matter, but production design and good lighting can be used to make almost any camera look great. I don’t think thhere’s anything wrong with that.
Steven Soderberg shot a movie some years ago on an earlier iphone. Some of the shots were truly terrific because of attention to the above.
You can copy or emulate a lot of high-end/cinematic/filmic looks quite affordably.
For light you need output + size of light source, easily attainable on a budget.
Good audio solutions also exist for reasonable $$.
What you pay the most for when using expensive equpiment is more features related to interconmectedness and lifting some of the work in post-production, and durability. But it does not nescessarily translate to better images than what can be achieved by even bedroom-indie filmmakers
Hardly, and I do think that headline smells of a high school jock attitude.
I know art nerds, science nerds, business nerds, music nerds, all kinds of nerds. I see it as badge of devotion, focus and skill in an area. If you’re a grown-up.
I remember the old Ted talk with Kahneman, and while it may be fuzzy how wealth and happines scale ttogether, I do subscribe to the opposite, that “lack of money buys you misery”
Well you took the time to comment on your feelings towards his art, so there’s that. I would argue you are proving his point. It is not meaningless enough that you just scrolled past it without mention.
We have had “hit factories” for quite some time now, suggesting at least there is some kind of musical output that helps the process of wow-ness upon first listen.
Sure, that formula does not always work on the moving targets of changing times and tastes, but i would argue that we actually do have a somewhat defined framework of that absolute sound (which has been around for some decades now). It’s calles pop music, now a genre unto itself. Yeah, you may not WOW every living human on earth every time with great accuracy, but we have McDonalized music enough to small-wow millions at a time on a first listen basis, just by virtue of being made using quite narrow musical frameworks using rythm, scales, chord progressions, arrangement etc
True, wonkiness level is high. Still impressive compared to not having this emerging tech a year ago. It will get better of course.
But wate of computer power? No, not at all. You are missing the novel creative aspect of this. This level of wonkiness is absolutely perfect for music video producers, and I am betting it will not take long before we see videos in this “style”. Some time ago there was a short trend of data moshing videos. They were certainly trippy and stood out, albeit short lived.
Digital artefacts as a way of creative expression can work great, and will too in this case.
You are not wrong. And in the spirit of doing commute commenting, nuances tend to fall by the wayside.
It could of course also be = and not exlusively ≠. More context and discussion to pin down similarities and difference is case by case.
Maybe does not equal nescessity. Pf course you do do not need to get high to achieve success. Depending on your specific personality and ambition it may help loosen or untie mental “knots”. I do not endorse it as a general rule.
I am but an internet stranger surfing on evaporating bytes.
Let adversity be the fuel to to you fire. Don’t let a random person like tell you it’s not gonna happen. Prove me wrong.
Learn programming (if that is what you want to be the best at. There are of course many diciplines out there where you could be no.1)
Think and reflect. Maybe try a hallucinagen at some point (that won’t make you smarter and carries its own risk, but best case scenario it will open the doors to new mental pathways for you to think and reflect internally and externally)
Learn. As much as you can. Apply that knowledge to as many things as you can. If your toolbox only has a screwdriver and nails, how do yo solve for that? Get a screwdriver, modify the hammer or create a solution to put between the screwdriver and nails? This also leads back to the think and reflect part (and is not exclusively entrepreneurial in spirit, it applies to most aspects of work and life)
Be nice and humble. You won’t get far on raw talent alone. You need people to support and challenge you.
Focus, dedication, determination. The movie Whiplash in many ways explores what it means and takes to become “the best”. Watch it.
Fuck the mission. Fuck the culture.
You are doing nothing but shoveling money into founders, investors and shareholders pockets.
I am not saying you should not work hard and aim for achievements, heck, even help the world get a little better (in some cases).
But don’t kid yourself. Sure, culture and mission is needed in a company. But they are not for your benefit.
Be the lemming, if that suits you.
If you own or have a finacial stake in the company sure, grind-to-win applies to you.
For everyone else sorry, but you are a special kind of retarded to trade your actual life (you only have one, remember) for the benefit of others who couldn’t care less about you.
It’s actually possible to do great work at 40 hrs or less per week. If you need more, you’re not doing it right.