Culture
On art, music, and beauty.
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Paleolithic signs: I’d love for us to discover a stone age writing system, but this is not it
Writing is one of humanity’s best inventions. Unlike speech, it allows the transmission of ideas over generations with little degradation. You, in the year 2026,…
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Deep Culture: The truths we hold to be self-evident
There are truths we have can articulate and justify, and then there are the truths we hold to be self-evident. We often struggle to explain…
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Do Composers Die Young? Yes, they have shorter life expectancy
Last February, I asked different AIs (ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek) to investigate if composers have historically died younger than other professions. Two of them couldn’t answer…
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Surprising Optimism: Finally Something Good from Stefan Sagmeister
The man to my right stared at me incredulously. He had the seat next to mine in the back of Cowell Theatre, and I had…
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The Enemy is Abstraction: When keeping it specific is a good idea
When someone explains an idea or a concept to me and I don’t understand, I like to ask, can you give me an example? This…
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Modular Ornament: An idea I’m not pursuing, but why isn’t anyone else?
I sometimes have business ideas that seem like someone should pursue them, but no-one is. In most cases, the reason will be that it’s a…
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