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The Underrated Role Of Intuition In Accomplishment

One day I was perfectly fine, and now, after just a few weeks away, confidence and sureness were gone. Simply put, I had lost my professional intuition. Although that explanation may seem imprecise, intuition is real, and, without it, experts lose their bearings. - Aeon

Los Angeles Firefighters Were An Oscars Highlight

Awards season, a few weeks after the devastating fires, was a good break for them too. But then it was right back to work. - Washington Post (MSN)

Whether You Love Or Hate Daylight Saving Time, Here’s A Reading List For You

Of course, don’t stay up too late reading it; the week after the time change is dangerous for commuters. - The Atlantic

Can We Build Clones To Watch All Of These Clone Movies?

It might be a full-time job for someone to follow the strands of clone movies - and TV shows - in the 21st century. - The New York Times

How Do You Protect Cultural Sovereignty In This Digital Age?

Right now, the global landscape is shifting in ways that could have profound consequences for Canada’s creative industries. The rise of AI, the dominance of U.S. based platforms, and the economic uncertainty fueled by shifting trade policies are all forcing us to rethink how we sustain and protect cultural knowledge in a digital world. - Linked.In

Brand Agencies Are Imploding. Ad Campaigns Are Now Inundation Campaigns

Brands now flood social platforms with constant content, yet the depth and craftsmanship that once defined advertising are being drowned in an ocean of data-driven mediocrity. Information overload. Attention deficits are growing. No longer are we in the Age of Information — we're officially in the Age of Inundation. - Entrepreneur

What It Means To Be A Highly Sensitive Person

What I discovered after many years of studying this innate survival strategy is that high sensitivity means, above all, thinking deeply about everything. - Aeon

The Dangerous Notion Of Free Speech

Freedom of expression undermines authority, which is why it has no place in societies wholly based on the exercise of coercive power. The logic of censorship is the same whether those who are silenced are slaves, indigenous colonial subjects or the inhabitants of Russia and China today. - Literary Review

Against The Encroachment Of AI On Creativity

The Brutalist’s AI touch-up fits the broader culture’s fetishization of perfection and flattening, but image filters and technologies like Auto-Tune consciously draw attention to their artificiality, almost making a virtue of it, which is not at all the case with the film’s deployment of AI. - The Baffler

Our Times Can Be Understood As A New Kind Of Cultural Revolution

Unlike the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, which imposed ideology on their populaces by means of culture and entertainment, America’s current reality is the overturning of the political order by the country’s entertainers. Washington today can be understood only as a product of show business, not of law or policy. - The Atlantic

The New Rationalism Versus The Humanities

In many ways, rationalism is the result of people with STEM educations attempting to tackle questions that had long been the purview of the humanities, guided by a stubbornly autodidactic conviction that definitive answers could be reached through a rigorous application of logic untainted by psychological biases. - The Point

We’ve Gotten Into A Zero-Sum Mindset. It’s Dangerous

This is what’s called zero-sum thinking — the belief that life is a battle over finite rewards where gains for one mean losses for another. And these days, that notion seems to be everywhere. - The New York Times

Thinking About The Impact Of The Sound Of Music As The Classic Turns Sixty

The film, especially its opening, combines “many types of beauty fused into one: photographic, geographic, choreographic, high kitsch and high camp. I’d distrust anyone who professes themselves unmoved by it in any way.” - The Guardian (UK)

Why These Oscars Mean So Much To Brazil

Even though it’s unlikely (as of this writing) that Estou Ainda Aqui, or I’m Still Here, will win best pic or Fernanda Torres Best Actress, Torres imitators line the streets at Carnival, “drink beer, clutch plastic Oscars and deliver the impromptu acceptance speeches.” - The New York Times

Please Stop It With The ‘They Were Due’ Oscars Narrative

“Does it bother me that Saoirse Ronan doesn’t have an Oscar? Yes. ... She should have won for Brooklyn, Lady Bird, Little Women, all three of them, epochal. But I worry more that she’ll win for something less astounding.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

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