No.25
A curated mix of thoughts, discoveries and fresh perspectives to kickstart your day.
Back in No.18, we shared a moment from the conversation between Andrew Huberman and Josh Waitzkin. We said there was more gold in it. We weren’t wrong.
Waitzkin described something he’d observed about Marcelo Garcia, a grappler many consider the greatest pound for pound to ever live.
Most people training jiu-jitsu find a position and hold it. Garcia never held positions. He was always moving. Always in the in-between.
Where most people see one position leading to the next with nothing in between, Garcia had 100 frames, playing in pockets nobody else could see.
It applies beyond the mat. We fixate on the moments — the meeting, the launch, the performance — but the real craft is in the transitions.
The art is in the in-between.
Andy Anderson skating through a sunny Paris. Beautifully shot by Brett Novak, lovely soundtrack — what’s not to like? Eight minutes of craft, movement, and one of the most photogenic cities on earth.
You’re already familiar with enshittification — the process by which platforms lure you in with something good, make you dependent on it, then systematically make it worse. But you might not know who’s been fighting it the hardest.
The Norwegian Consumer Council is a small, government-funded consumer protection body that’s been waging a quietly brilliant creative war against Big Tech for years. They once read numerous app terms and conditions aloud for 32 hours straight — that’s how long it actually takes to read what we all blindly accept. They published a report called “You Can Log Out But You Can Never Leave” documenting how Amazon made cancelling Prime intentionally confusing. Their “Deceived by Design” report was one of the first government-level documents to call out dark patterns.
Their latest move is a four-minute film. It imagines enshittification as a proud career — a man who goes to work every day to make things shittier.
It’s darkly funny and painfully recognisable.
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