The Wisdom Wall
5 quotable lessons, heuristics and mental models. Every one is playable at the moment it was said. No fortune cookies allowed.
“Universal appeal is almost taboo. If everybody likes you, you're probably doing something wrong or you're just average.”
“I was extremely naive to the fame aspect of it. Like there is no fame, like YouTube fame, like internet fame.”
“I had a lecture that I used to give called Perfection Erases Humanity, and it was largely directed at CGI when it was exploding a dozen years ago, which is that we can now make everything perfect. Everything perfect. And in that perfection, there's no sign of the human hand, and therefore our relationship with it…”
“10 years ago, if you weren't one of those people at the top, you really couldn't. There was no middle class. And we're seeing now a middle class of celebrity, of influencer, of creator.”
“All anybody wants is the selfie. Number one, don't ever wait for them to ask. The minute they're approaching, give me your phone with a smile. And then like they're diffused and they're ready to go. And then number two, I always take the picture.”