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AI takes something and sands the edges down, so it makes the blob average. And that could be very useful in a lot of ways. But if you really want to do something brand new and really insightful and speak from a personal angle, that’s not going to come from AI fully. It only ever create what’s been fed into it. It doesn’t create anything new, it creates a weird amalgam of stuff that’s been poured into it.

They’re kind of parents, these toys, they’re there to serve the kids and to help them grow up. And that’s difficult in a lot of ways as being a parent. My wife said, “From the moment they’re born, our job is to prepare them, to leave us to go be successful in the world.” And that’s really difficult.

I feel like that’s our job as human beings is to open our eyes and our hearts to the way other people see things without being preachy. Obviously we don’t want that in the movies. We don’t want it to feel like you’re going to school or getting a message. You’re there to have fun, you’re there to be entertained, but what better way, and this is the power of animation.

Somewhere along the line, the American Dream became to live alone, surrounded by all of this, rather than living in connection with other people.

Digital marketing is a fundamental threat to human flourishing, cognitive autonomy, and democratic governance.

Digital marketing is capitalism at its most predatory—a system where deliberately amplifying society's worst impulses becomes a rational business strategy.

The economic model and the foundational worldview of digital marketing operate on the premise that human consciousness exists primarily as a resource to be mined, refined, and sold.

But with Swift there was the internet, which, as it has done to most things, scaled this kind of community engagement up to extreme new levels.

Swift recognized a “blue ocean”—what the strategy gurus W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne call a completely untapped market

what researchers call her doxa—the unwritten norms and behaviors that draw fans to an artist

She has, rather brilliantly, convinced the public that her past and present coexist right now…