#xoxofest FC:
This thing that you’ve made, it's from you, and feels like you, but it really isn’t you. It goes out there, and it’s not yours anymore. Your thing becomes our thing.
Will you go alone? Or shall we go together?
@frank_chimero
#xoxofest FC:
If what you make goes anywhere, it’s because other people carried it.
#xoxofest FC:
We need to make sure it is not taboo to talk about the problems of success if we want to be successful.
#xoxofest FC:
Critical:
1. How do we create a cultural awareness that attention doesn’t usually lead to money?
2. How do we produce more equitable platforms where attention does equal proportionate money?
3. How do we build up services that act as a sidekick instead of a tollbooth?
4. How do you honor that audience without letting them have too much power over you?
#xoxofest FC:
…long list of artists who decided to keep their day job to fuel their creative practice.
If your income isn’t tied to your capacity or ability to make a certain kind of work, it means you don't have to take any shit from anybody.
It means you can just make whatever you want to make.
And what’s more indepndent than that?
#xoxofest FC:
How can we be independent together?
What are ways that people can work with each other?
* Employment - work for
* Collaboration - working with
* Community - working beside
None of these three are mutually exclusive.
Each combination produces its own kind of independence.
#xoxofest FC:
independence: control, equity, transparency, freedom
vs: stability, predictability, resources, coherence
Great #xoxofest 2016 closing talk by @frank_chimero.
Took some notes, posting after the fact.
#xoxofest @sarahjeong: ”Targeted advertising is a matter of surveillance. Where there is surveillance, power imbalances will be exploited.”
#xoxofest @sarahjeong: ”The media industry is unwittingly allowing evil [malvertising] to befell their users.”
#xoxofest @sarahjeong “Ads endanger you. [Their] tracking cookies will betray where you’ve been what you’ve looked at”
#xoxofest @sarahjeong confronts journalism vs ad revenue vs ad blockers. and: “Please don’t turn off your adblocker.”
“We can’t all have access to young people’s blood.” @jennschiffer #xoxofest re Peter Thiel & parabiosis #WTF
Learning about this for the first time from a clever satirist, then finding out it’s not an Onion article:
* http://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.html
* http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to-inject-himself-with-young-peoples-blood
* http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/08/peter_thiel_s_desire_to_live_forever_exposes_some_bizarre_and_pricey_clinical.html
How. What.
This seems like the opposite of working on stuff that matters.
The opposite of empowering others.
Of lifting up those less fortunate than yourself.
2. Write about something you have literally no idea about.
Good way to get 500 guys try to explain it to you for free.
#xoxofest: Two simple tricks to satire by @jennschiffer:
1. Write about something you have only a vague idea about.
“Your good ideas might be bad and bad ideas might be good. You won’t know until you build them.” @SimoneGiertz #xoxofest
#xoxofest: “Your ideas may be smarter than you.” @SimoneGiertz
Good start to separating ideas from sense of self.
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