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Creative Lives — Creative technologist Mathieu Triay on ‘new’ news, computers and working at the BBC

The Good In Online Advertising For over 10 years I’ve been writing about how shitty, worthless, and dangerous I think most online advertising is. Today I want to talk about the good in online advertising.

Want to make great art? Stop making art The case for doing nothing.

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Beloved Artist Agnes Martin on Our Greatest Obstacle to Happiness and How to Transcend It 
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How Matisse’s Cut-outs Took Over the Illustration World 
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Why climbing the corporate ladder may be the worst path to the top Conventional wisdom suggests that the way to success is to stay in your lane, climbing the corporate ladder and meeting people within your industry or sector.

The death of Don Draper Advertising, once a creative industry, is now a data-driven business reliant on algorithms. The implications are deeply sinister – not only for the consumer but for democracy itself.