what is art, but God and nature?
what is modern life, but a steady movement away from the spiritual and natural?
unmoored and moving determinedly towards the synthetic and simulational
and so the world shrinks to only the conscious of man, his contraptions and communications
and the art that follows reflects this
it becomes reliant on the referential, overly concerned with it's situation and too aware of it's relativity
Notion "won" because it made the artifacts presentational and collaborative
and because it mostly viewed "thought" as "work", and built compositional frontends for business-oriented purposes
the same reasons the Google/Apple/Microsoft office suites are durable
if "the squeeze" is read to be a venture-backed or bootstrapped effort to commercialize generalized thinking tools
and "the juice" is monetary rewards
luckily, there's still plenty of other reasons to want to build these types of software
works at Quora, whose Series B funding round was led by Thiel
ScaleAI cofounder was Thiel fellow
Y-Combinator when Thiel is a part-time partner
Thiel's Founders Fund leads first funding round, juicing valuation
joins Meta, whose first outside investor was Thiel
