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was chatting with @TheAlexYao abt scenes, cities, Jane Jacobs, import replacements – and he casually brought up that fact that The Beatles started as a cover band. Which is a fact I'm familiar with re: remixing, but I never thought to make this connection https://t.co/NH0grky4eV
Sony started out as a radio repair shop before they started making Walkmen and Playstations there's a Sic Parvis Magna (greatness from small beginnings) riff here, but there's also something more specific and powerful to be grasped IMO https://t.co/EN7EAFuEfW
Sony's story begins with Masaru Ibuka [1908–1997]. He graduated from Waseda in 1993, worked in movie film processing, then served in the Navy as a researcher during WW2. After WW2, he started a radio repair shop in the bombed out Shirokiya Department Store in Nihonbashi, Tokyo https://t.co/vppPIzBu0Z
Idk if Rosenfelder is quoting Jacobs directly when he says "This is how every developed nation started [...] there is no other way." no. other. way. *everything* is a remix remixers accumulate knowledge and power you get to originality by first being derivative No Other Way https://t.co/QOYeAunyaa
Newton was making copies of other people's work, tinkering with other people's stuff, just like the Beatles did, just like Sony did no other way!!! (unless you are somehow more exceptional than both Newton and The Beatles I guess) https://t.co/Hvxhmk4WKv
newton would copy stuff over and over. sarah dry, who wrote a book about this, said that the dudes who inherited newton's papers might've been disappointed that he spent so much time making copies fools!! everything is a remix! all learning begins with imitation! https://t.co/3HrZ6o3PTM
the iphone was a remix of the walkman and the polaroid camera. and they had to make the ipod first no other way https://t.co/orQTJ1SZH8
you can count the apples on a tree but you can't count the trees in an apple you cannot know the full impact of your silly note-taking, your piddling, your messing around, your derivative doodling etc fuck around and find out https://t.co/kDbbawJY44
I think a lot about how Feynman got his Nobel Prize from “piddling around with wobbly plates”. I’m always looking for wobbly plates to piddle with. And of course the point isn’t to get the Prize, but to enjoy the piddling https://t.co/FQNTZdChsN
