“The way that we work out bigger ideas about how we feel about ourselves, about the world, about politics, about power really does play out in a pop culture sense” @hunteryharris on making the case for pop culture
Open Tab: Hunter Harris
00:00 Pop culture and personal reflections
00:44 Nitehawk Theater and young Hunter
03:41 From NYMag to independence
08:59 Embracing uncertainty and career shifts
10:13 Profiling celebreties
12:43 Balancing personal voice in writing
17:04 Concerns about
I've been thinking a lot about this Old Rope post since it was published a couple months ago. Some of the greatest growth stories have been taking mundane things & improving the aesthetics / user experience.
substack.com/home/post/p-19…
When I said this, all the Chinamaxxers jumped down my throat, but it's true...Chinese urbanism is boring. You live in a gated tower block and you drive to the mall.
Another hot take by the same friend:
"I really dislike China's urban development compared to TW or Japan. They're getting rid of all the walkable pedestrian neighborhoods and replacing them with giant gated copy & paste apartment complexes."
I agree 🤷🏻♂️ Take Shenzhen and the
The media has changed a *lot* in 25 years but one thing that's still true today is that the media with the most electoral influence is the outlets popular with people who don't care much about politics (this is why Rogan and Fallon matter a lot).
slowboring.com/p/what-i-learn…
AI is not just a tool, @LMSacasas argues: "it is an environment which envelops the user and works on us from the inside out while we naively think that we remain unchanged by our use... What is most urgently at issue is our perception"
Is lack of third spaces turning us into egomaniacs? Cultural strategist Molly Barth: "Without any real substance to tie our meaning to, self-optimization and hyper-individualism have quickly become our guiding light"
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