Whenever I speak with anyone new to a medium and insecure about their work, I think about this passage from David Byrne's "How Music Works," about how capitalism devalues amateur expression to encourage consumption. pic.twitter.com/B5fr3jNMS5— Kevin Snow (@bravemule) March 6, 2019

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Living like a fancy millennial was wonderful, until it wasn’t.

“In this future, certain objects, like the snow shovel, might be represented by their own canonical version—the only one Amazon actually ever shows you. Everyone will see their own best choice, though, so it will be canonical just to you.”