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hmmmmm going into my own head off on a tangent from this… cool thing about thinking more + better as you get older is that old experiences start to make more sense when viewed through new and different lenses
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Some people are soooo averse to any talk of distribution at all that they instantly assume I must be dangerously indifferent to product. Sometimes it takes me years to persuade people that I’m not who they assume I must be
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if you seriously care about product then you have to care about product dev then you have to care about distribution, or at least respect it enough to see that it’s what gives you the resources you need to keep playing. the field is littered with corpses of the honourable dead
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and my frustration with the honorable dead is that while they might think that they died for noble reasons, they also fucking died and it means they can’t help with the fight anymore. very convenient, being dead. nobody can ask anything of you. they can only scream at your grave
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the big lesson of survivor bias is that you should optimize for being a survivor
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it’s more radical to keep playing for decades, than to make a couple of grand gestures and then give up
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This is why - I’m totally serious - it’s important to have proper documentation and handover protocols. I’ve seen local music and political and journalism scenes repeatedly stuck in the same small sad loops because nobody has the foresight Play the 100 year game twitter.com/SSteinLubrano/…
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I’m so mad at everybody who ever talked a bunch of bold, daring shit about all the good they were going to do, and then fucking gave up when the going got tough. cowards
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