🤔 "Peaks" or "Summits" might be more accurate than "Plateaus" actually

6 / 6 I think being aware of the constraints (e.g. time or budget) and choosing the right plateau is important. The audience cares about the final outcome, not the effort spent. On the flip side this means enjoyment is essentially detached from effort:

5 / 6 This principle of plateaus applies to other creative domains like architecture, animation or illustration as well. Example: A rough sketch by a skillful artist can be enjoyed as much as an oil painting.

4 / 6 Quality's Uncanny Valleys: If you don't hit the plateau it will be perceived as off-putting. One might say it lacks polish. A lot of Marvel CGI falls into this category.

3 / 6 The Plateaus of Quality: At every "effort stage" there is a plateau where people perceive something as qualitative. People call this great art direction or style or graphics.

2 / 6 Effort ≠ Quality (but they are related): Putting more effort in doesn't mean the outcome is automatically better, but exceptional quality requires exceptional effort.

A thought I had: Quality comes in plateaus 1 / 6

Why @YouTube Premium will only get more expensive: (When Premium is great for you, it's terrible for YT and vice versa)

The mindset of the two first search results couldn't be further apart 😅

⏳ A few years passed since my last essay: https://t.co/YVBu2aWg6T

#Halo 2's art direction was on another level. It had such beautiful vistas and atmosphere.

ChatGPT writes answers how humans wrote them before SEO made everything terrible

I am writing an essay once again 🙂 This is the key visual:

My take on William Gibson's famous quote: ❝The f̶u̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ dystopia is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.❞

I got the feeling that the more precisely ones tries to define something, the blurrier it becomes: • What’s a sandwich? • What’s a continent? • What‘s a soul? • What‘s life?

Maybe it should be called ❝collatoral damage efficiency❞ to describe a tipping point where something generally good becomes ruthless

Examples for „Enemy of life itself“: • Mono cultures in agriculture • Amazon workers peeing in bottles • Stress induced diseases • Highly processed foods • …

„Friend of costs“ is simple: Brings cost down which makes sth more affordable, increases profits or something in-between

Extreme efficiency is: • The friend of costs • The enemy of life itself

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