Why self-care, hygge, and domestic cozy are everywhere in marketing - Vox
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/1/15/21063670/hygge-self-care-domestic-cozy-marketing-brands-haus
「“Instagram, Tinder, kale salads, and Urban Outfitters are premium mediocre. Minecraft, YouTube, cooking at home, and knitting are domestic cozy,” he writes. “Premium mediocrity expends enormous energy preserving the illusion of normalcy. Domestic cozy slouches into the weirdness and simply ignores it.”
Obviously, these are rather abstract concepts and precarious ways of describing entire generations made up of millions of people, but as a way to understand marketing, they can be useful. If twee and hipster culture was a backlash to the bling and brand names of the aughts, domestic cozy is a rejection of the aspirational lifestyle aesthetic and the monetization of every hour of the day.」
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/1/15/21063670/hygge-self-care-domestic-cozy-marketing-brands-haus
「“Instagram, Tinder, kale salads, and Urban Outfitters are premium mediocre. Minecraft, YouTube, cooking at home, and knitting are domestic cozy,” he writes. “Premium mediocrity expends enormous energy preserving the illusion of normalcy. Domestic cozy slouches into the weirdness and simply ignores it.”
Obviously, these are rather abstract concepts and precarious ways of describing entire generations made up of millions of people, but as a way to understand marketing, they can be useful. If twee and hipster culture was a backlash to the bling and brand names of the aughts, domestic cozy is a rejection of the aspirational lifestyle aesthetic and the monetization of every hour of the day.」
Vox
Why are so many brands pivoting to coziness?
Marketers have always used beautiful domestic spaces in advertisements. Now even shoes and liquor are supposed to make us feel safe and warm.
Stratechery by Ben Thompson – On the business, strategy, and impact of technology.
https://stratechery.com/
"One of the more pernicious mistruths surrounding the debate about TikTok is that this will potentially lead to the splintering of the Internet; this completely erases the history of China’s Great Firewall, started 23 years ago, which effectively cut China off from most Western services. That the U.S. may finally respond in kind is a reflection of reality, not the creation of a new one."
https://stratechery.com/
"One of the more pernicious mistruths surrounding the debate about TikTok is that this will potentially lead to the splintering of the Internet; this completely erases the history of China’s Great Firewall, started 23 years ago, which effectively cut China off from most Western services. That the U.S. may finally respond in kind is a reflection of reality, not the creation of a new one."
Stratechery by Ben Thompson
On the business, strategy, and impact of technology.
Forwarded from 《一天世界》博客 (Lawrence Li)
A long, long time ago
I can still remember how that internet used to make me smile
But August makes me shiver
With every app I’d have delivered
Bad news on state dot government
I couldn’t reach Pompeo’s statement
I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his five new lines
But something touched me deep inside
The day the internet died
https://www.state.gov/announcing-the-expansion-of-the-clean-network-to-safeguard-americas-assets/
I can still remember how that internet used to make me smile
But August makes me shiver
With every app I’d have delivered
Bad news on state dot government
I couldn’t reach Pompeo’s statement
I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his five new lines
But something touched me deep inside
The day the internet died
https://www.state.gov/announcing-the-expansion-of-the-clean-network-to-safeguard-americas-assets/
Forwarded from Λ-Reading ♡
资讯摘要✂：
「acoolyou： 电子书下载网站 https://bit.ly/33uZxhD 每天限制10次下载，大部分格式是epub 」
「acoolyou： 电子书下载网站 https://bit.ly/33uZxhD 每天限制10次下载，大部分格式是epub 」
不鳥萬如一給看理想錄的一段 2020 新年祝福
文/ 李如一
......
...对我来说，「持续精进」是永远的期待。不过如果要说新一年有什么具体的愿望的话，那就是进一步减少使用亚马逊网站。
我并不讨厌亚马逊。在进入一个陌生领域的时候，它是非常有用的工具，我自己也获益甚多。但是，一个多样性的市场是更健康的市场。在有选择的情况下，我希望自己能够牺牲速度和便捷，尽可能支持中小规模的书店、唱片店以及百货店。
20年前，实验音乐和实验艺术几乎是我人生的全部，应该说，这些东西是帮助你活在未来的一种工具。或许正因为这样，当时的我从来没有具体想过未来，更别提某个具体的时间点（比如2020年）会是什么样子。
20年后的今天，有比以前多得多的人在谈论「实验」，在谈论「跳出舒适圈」，在谈论「不要让自己的作品被既有的某个类型给框住」，在谈论「疯狂」，谈论「危险」，谈论「野心」——没错，也在谈论「未来」。但「实验」两个字在音乐和艺术里已经基本失去了意义，我已经很难找到什么作品能让人产生「生活在未来」的感受。
我曾经认为，在艺术里流失的未来感可以从技术里找回，但最终我和很多人一样，发现技术让我们失去的，远多于让我们得到的。
The future was here, but no longer here. 我不认为2020年我们能把它找回来，但终究一定可以。每个人都无法预测未来，但都能相信自己的行为正在塑造未来。对我而言，压缩像亚马逊这样一个给我带来巨大方便的网站的使用时间，就是塑造未来的一种方式。
文/ 李如一
......
...对我来说，「持续精进」是永远的期待。不过如果要说新一年有什么具体的愿望的话，那就是进一步减少使用亚马逊网站。
我并不讨厌亚马逊。在进入一个陌生领域的时候，它是非常有用的工具，我自己也获益甚多。但是，一个多样性的市场是更健康的市场。在有选择的情况下，我希望自己能够牺牲速度和便捷，尽可能支持中小规模的书店、唱片店以及百货店。
20年前，实验音乐和实验艺术几乎是我人生的全部，应该说，这些东西是帮助你活在未来的一种工具。或许正因为这样，当时的我从来没有具体想过未来，更别提某个具体的时间点（比如2020年）会是什么样子。
20年后的今天，有比以前多得多的人在谈论「实验」，在谈论「跳出舒适圈」，在谈论「不要让自己的作品被既有的某个类型给框住」，在谈论「疯狂」，谈论「危险」，谈论「野心」——没错，也在谈论「未来」。但「实验」两个字在音乐和艺术里已经基本失去了意义，我已经很难找到什么作品能让人产生「生活在未来」的感受。
我曾经认为，在艺术里流失的未来感可以从技术里找回，但最终我和很多人一样，发现技术让我们失去的，远多于让我们得到的。
The future was here, but no longer here. 我不认为2020年我们能把它找回来，但终究一定可以。每个人都无法预测未来，但都能相信自己的行为正在塑造未来。对我而言，压缩像亚马逊这样一个给我带来巨大方便的网站的使用时间，就是塑造未来的一种方式。
Forwarded from Winnowing Words (waterzeong)
推荐两个我特别遗憾自己小时候没有的英语学习工具。一个是 ludwig.guru 这个网站，你搜索想查的单词，它给你主流刊物中的包含该单词或短语的例句。写文章不知道自己这么讲对不对的时候，可以去搜搜看该表达是否常用。在 ludwig.guru 网站出现之前，我一般用 Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) 这个网站，但 COCA 的界面没有 ludwig 方便实用。
工具二是韦氏字典的 Word of the Day 播客。播客每天花几分钟介绍一个常见但初学者很可能不认识的英文单词，包括它的释义以及历史。我觉得最有价值的部分，是主持人会念几个英文刊物中包含该单词的句子，告诉你这个词应该怎么用。更厉害的是，如果这个词特别书面、特别不礼貌、经常做讽刺意义使用、经常做比喻意义使用，主持人也会告诉你。
可能你已经看出来了，我觉得提供实际使用语境、介绍单词隐含意义的资源才有价值。我小时候背单词用的纸质书、手机应用，经常只写一个中文翻译。但单词只有在情境下才有意义——smart、clever、sharp、bright、intelligent、brainy 都翻译成“聪明”，但它们的使用场景、隐含意义却不太一样。相近词汇间的微妙差别，一句中文有时也不能完全解释清楚。只有你读过很多包含该单词的句子（且句子都来自知名刊物），你才能体会到单词和它的近义词之间的区别。
以上是平时学习的资源。如果你想短期内大量背单词，我记得我小时候用的是 vocabulary.com，它用来测试你是否记住单词的题目，也是给一个句子、让你选哪个单词适合放在空白处。我不知道还有什么更新的资源，欢迎大家互相推荐～
https://wikidiff.com/
https://ludwig.guru/
https://www.english-corpora.org/bnc/
https://www.thesaurus.com/
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day
工具二是韦氏字典的 Word of the Day 播客。播客每天花几分钟介绍一个常见但初学者很可能不认识的英文单词，包括它的释义以及历史。我觉得最有价值的部分，是主持人会念几个英文刊物中包含该单词的句子，告诉你这个词应该怎么用。更厉害的是，如果这个词特别书面、特别不礼貌、经常做讽刺意义使用、经常做比喻意义使用，主持人也会告诉你。
可能你已经看出来了，我觉得提供实际使用语境、介绍单词隐含意义的资源才有价值。我小时候背单词用的纸质书、手机应用，经常只写一个中文翻译。但单词只有在情境下才有意义——smart、clever、sharp、bright、intelligent、brainy 都翻译成“聪明”，但它们的使用场景、隐含意义却不太一样。相近词汇间的微妙差别，一句中文有时也不能完全解释清楚。只有你读过很多包含该单词的句子（且句子都来自知名刊物），你才能体会到单词和它的近义词之间的区别。
以上是平时学习的资源。如果你想短期内大量背单词，我记得我小时候用的是 vocabulary.com，它用来测试你是否记住单词的题目，也是给一个句子、让你选哪个单词适合放在空白处。我不知道还有什么更新的资源，欢迎大家互相推荐～
附：https://www.linguee.com/https://wikidiff.com/
https://ludwig.guru/
https://www.english-corpora.org/bnc/
https://www.thesaurus.com/
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day
GPT-3 Will Accelerate The Privatization of Internet Communities - Napkin Math
https://napkinmath.substack.com/p/gpt-3-will-accelerate-the-privatization
https://napkinmath.substack.com/p/gpt-3-will-accelerate-the-privatization
every.to
GPT-3 Will Accelerate The Privatization of Internet Communities
A new predictive language model spells the end of the digital commons
#125: Tears in Rain - Kneeling Bus
https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-the-suboptimal-city
"One of my favorite McLuhanisms is a 1964 observation about the rise of the automobile: “The horse has lost its role in transportation but has made a strong comeback in entertainment.” It’s a perfect expression of how obsolescence doesn’t necessarily mean total disappearance, as we sometimes expect it will in the moment, but instead just narrows the space in which the outmoded technology operates."
" Danny Hillis once defined technology as “everything that doesn’t work yet,” prompting the following corollary from Kevin Kelly: “Successful inventions disappear from our awareness. Electric motors were once technology—they were new and did not work well. As they evolved, they seemed to disappear, even though they proliferated and were embedded by the scores into our homes and offices. They work perfectly, silently, unminded, so they no longer register as ‘technology.’” Taking this idea one step further, the afterlife of an obsolete technology is the phase when it finds a more modest purpose and finally reenters our field of awareness (now we say “horses” whenever we drive past some horses). "
https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-the-suboptimal-city
"One of my favorite McLuhanisms is a 1964 observation about the rise of the automobile: “The horse has lost its role in transportation but has made a strong comeback in entertainment.” It’s a perfect expression of how obsolescence doesn’t necessarily mean total disappearance, as we sometimes expect it will in the moment, but instead just narrows the space in which the outmoded technology operates."
" Danny Hillis once defined technology as “everything that doesn’t work yet,” prompting the following corollary from Kevin Kelly: “Successful inventions disappear from our awareness. Electric motors were once technology—they were new and did not work well. As they evolved, they seemed to disappear, even though they proliferated and were embedded by the scores into our homes and offices. They work perfectly, silently, unminded, so they no longer register as ‘technology.’” Taking this idea one step further, the afterlife of an obsolete technology is the phase when it finds a more modest purpose and finally reenters our field of awareness (now we say “horses” whenever we drive past some horses). "
Substack
In Praise of the Suboptimal City
JANE JACOBS & URBAN DIVERSITY The Death and Life of Great American Cities, written by Jane Jacobs in 1961, is still the bible of urban planning, probably to a fault (here’s a great essay about that). In one of the book’s most influential sections, Jacobs…
https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cDovL3BlcmVsbC5saWJzeW4uY29tL3Jzcw&ep=14&episode=NTU1NzY0MDZlNGIwMmU0Njc5MTA1ZGMyOjU4MTRlNmE5NmI4ZjViMGU1OWFlZDE4MTo1YTUyY2EyOTY1MmRlYTQ2ZGJlYTYyZDE
"Why the awe for the Second Law? The Second Law defines the ultimate purpose of life, mind, and human striving: to deploy energy and information to fight back the tide of entropy and carve out refuges of beneficial order. An underappreciation of the inherent tendency toward disorder, and a failure to appreciate the precious niches of order we carve out, are a major source of human folly."
"Why the awe for the Second Law? The Second Law defines the ultimate purpose of life, mind, and human striving: to deploy energy and information to fight back the tide of entropy and carve out refuges of beneficial order. An underappreciation of the inherent tendency toward disorder, and a failure to appreciate the precious niches of order we carve out, are a major source of human folly."
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North Star Podcast - Eugene Wei: Compress to Impress
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Today’s guest is Eugene Wei, who's spent his career working at some of the world’s best technology companies including Amazon, Hulu, and Facebook. He joined Amazon in 1997 after graduating from Stanford and it was at Amazon…
Today’s guest is Eugene Wei, who's spent his career working at some of the world’s best technology companies including Amazon, Hulu, and Facebook. He joined Amazon in 1997 after graduating from Stanford and it was at Amazon…
Compress to impress — Remains of the Day
https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2017/5/11/jpeg-your-ideas
https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2017/5/11/jpeg-your-ideas
Remains of the Day
Compress to impress — Remains of the Day
One of the funniest and most implausible things in movies is the grand speech by the general, usually the film's protagonist, in front of thousands of soldiers in the moments just before a critical battle. Examples abound, and the punch lines lodge in the…
"The Future of Art Festivals" organized by International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong) and M.A. in Cultural Management Programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Details as follow:
Date: 23/8/2020
Time:3.00pm – 4.30pm
Venue: Online Seminar via ZOOM (Meeting link and password will be provided after registration)
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=567871
For details, please see the poster below or visit IATC (HK) website: http://www.iatc.com.hk/doc/106388
Details as follow:
Date: 23/8/2020
Time:3.00pm – 4.30pm
Venue: Online Seminar via ZOOM (Meeting link and password will be provided after registration)
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=567871
For details, please see the poster below or visit IATC (HK) website: http://www.iatc.com.hk/doc/106388
www.iatc.com.hk
IATC | 國際演藝評論家協會（香港分會）
國際演藝評論家協會（香港分會）的使命，是承襲母會的精神，讓藝術工作者與藝評者能聚首觀摩，互相學習；促進藝術水平的提昇。The mission of The International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong) is to inherit the spirit of the association, to allow artists and art critics to gather, observe and learn from each other…
Marc Andreessen
「The roadmap to getting luck on our side」
- Luck and the entrepreneur, part 1: The four kinds of luck
https://pmarchive.com/luck_and_the_entrepreneur.html
「The roadmap to getting luck on our side」
- Luck and the entrepreneur, part 1: The four kinds of luck
https://pmarchive.com/luck_and_the_entrepreneur.html