Gerhard Richter, Two Candles, 1982

Raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies are the main reason I have trust issues.

what an ending !

Short-form media is for curiosity and discovery, long-form media is for exploration and longevity

this is so sick

sphere is lit

Artists: A critic’s job is to notice things and then say what they notice.

'For me, VC is more about what to ignore than anything else' - Fred Wilson

Frank Sinatra performing in Monte Carlo, 1958.

Jay-Z (from Decoded) on types of language:

'Poets and hustlers play with language, because for them simple clarity can mean failure. They bend language, improvise, and invent new ways of speaking the truth'

On reading old books:

'If you study Shakespeare, you can figure out how to build consumer products' - Rabois

it's fucking absurd that a case of you isn't the national anthem of canada

21 yo here

'The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything'

“There’s nothing more threatening than a girl with a guitar”

A moving statement of purpose which became a melancholy valediction, The Minutemen’s “History Lesson Part 2” is one part Proustian-reminisce and one part punk-rock pep talk. If three corndogs from San Pedro can change the world then at least I should try. I miss D. Boon every day

thousands of us are about to head to las vegas to see our favorite band play for 4 nights, almost 3 hours each night

and we have no idea what they are going to do

'I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything.'

~ Jack Kerouac

When you’re stuck, ask yourself: what’s the simplest, worst version of this I can whip out in 15 minutes?

• Free-flow shitty first draft of a blog post
• 5-slide presentation with no design flourish
• Messy project mindmap in your notebook

Put a timer on and give it a try :)

'I do not think the new cool thing will be unimaginably better

It will be different'

- Zvi Mowshowitz

I think it was The Shape of Jazz to Come (the 5th or 6th jazz album I heard) that taught me that if you just give it a few listens, music that doesn’t sound right at first might sound amazing when you take the time to absorb it