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I don’t want to replace my TV

At this point I have a 13-year-old 38″ LCD TV that doesn’t have good picture quality compared to what you can purchase now. It’s small and the the bezels are “huge”, yet after reading this article from Ars Technica about TVs tracking you for ads I really have no interest in purchasing a new TV. Seems it will be hard to purchase a dumb box that simply displays the HDMI signal I send it.

Time-management is ruining lives

This article by Oliver Burkeman looks at how managing all our time means we have no free time for anything. I like his analogy of being able to go fast in the single direction that was once decided upon, but we then have no time to decide that a course change is really what was needed so it’s hard to course correct and easy to keep going down a bad path.

For more from Burkeman here is my review of 4000 Weeks.

Usefulness must justify art

Too often we look to usefulness and service to justify our art—this poster will inspire climate action, this book will help people build better relationships, this movie with these tropes will become a hit, these aesthetic product videos will get us more sales, and so on and so forth. In our current side-hustle, personal brand-driven world, everything is done with some (capitalistic) goal in mind. – Ratkia Deshpande

I very much enjoyed this essay on creating art because we want to. I carry this mindset into my writing and video creation, focusing on what I find fun and not worrying about the audience. Longevity is sticking with what’s currently interesting me instead of chasing money.