On 9/7/26
Daily Letter
Artist · Inspiration & Quotes × Design & Objects
Fear is the cheapest seat in the house, I’d like to see you living in better conditions
Everyone’s terrified, convinced the studios don’t need artists anymore. It’s the artist that doesn’t need the studios.
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.
The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.
Public · Design & Objects
You don’t hate journos enough
A must read
https://open.substack.com/pub/edwest/p/doomscrolling-ourselves-to-death?r=36pad&utm_medium=ios
The translated from Chinese instead of simplified Chinese is the real insight here, he’s talking directly to Taiwan
Money, Work & Power
Giving my clankers the day off for Labor Day
Memes & Culture
Hiphop would be full blown corporate CIA drug dealer gang poison music if it wasn’t for Ye
Misc
It's not winter that defeats you. It is your insistence on summer
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralized nation tells demoralized stories to itself.