Kyle McDonald @kcimc
artist working with code [email protected] kylemcdonald.net paayme paxaayt Joined July 2010-
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This Saturday! A Generative Art, Architecture, and Engineering Workshop @cooperunion with @AaronHertzmann , Kyle McDonald @kcimc , @RLukeDuBois , @golan Levin, Claire Hentschker @ntschk organized by Benjamin Aranda @ArandaLasch and Sam Keene @AbidesKeene
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@kcimc I’m not trying to debate it I just want to make the point that I don’t think it’s so binary but that it’s all a giant continuum of choices and that even things you don’t consider as “selling out” someone else might, etc. making art is hard and being a creative independent…
@kcimc You don’t attribute workshops, speaking opportunities etc to any of that work? Again I think this is better discussed not on Twitter but I personally think those activities have a very direct relationship to jobs and opportunities.
@kcimc I find this thread sort of jarring. Life is full of compromises and also I think there are a lot of places where positive choices - community building, open source etc lead to positive financial outcomes. Hard to discuss in tweet form tbh but happy to talk more.
Some of the best ppl in life never get a thank you for being so wonderful but their example def shapes countless others like a while loop set always to true. Life should not be measured by how much property/currency gained but how many lives changed for the positive.
not only is there is no personal benefit to operating this way, people who live with fewer restrictions are more rewarded. so why do i do this at all? is it because it’s what i need to do to live with myself? or just because it’s The Right Thing?
Kyle is real. This is something I spend a lot of time thinking about, and I hope my choices turn out to be worth it.
for everyone who never “sold out”, who never took an opportunity for themselves knowing that it would harm someone else, who tried to avoid becoming a hypocrite, would you do it again? is the satisfaction of knowing you lived your values worth the difficulty?
@kcimc Hm I took a business leadership test a few years back that scored me highest on integrity, especially in my “creative mode”. Does this put me at a disadvantage? Maybe versus a mafia boss, but a mafia boss tends to get murdered so I choose servant leadership.
@kcimc Maybe I’m just lucky but I do get joy from helping other people. I hope others can experience this joy because it’s really nice and special to feel it
@telefontelaviv @kcimc Why does this have to be about death though?
@kcimc You want to at least enjoy the presence of those around you. If I had to make a decision whether to ‘sell out’ or not I think I’d have to start with thinking about the social circles it would put me in, are these the kind of people I want to spend my time with?
@kcimc I do think there is a longer term fulfillment that transcends immediate gain when you can look back and say "I did my best to do what seemed right as often as I could" - but there's also a risk there of getting attached to feeling morally superior as a reward for that.
@kcimc I tend not to abstract intentions into "values" because the world is too complex for that IMO, but my version of living with integrity is more like a kind of radical acceptance of what I'm capable of, what effect I'd like to have, and what resources I have available to me.
@kcimc I think that my adoption of that philosophical view, plus my past experience of growing up in the South around many people more conservative than me, led me to self-justify some degree of compromise with other people’s views. But there’s definitely boundaries where I draw a line.
@kcimc I have “sold out” a little bit, and I think what is missing in your analysis is the sense of falseness I carry in those parts of my life. The “reward” does not feel like I imagined because the person who did the imagining was changed by the choice.
@kcimc Many years from now, when you’re dying, you wouldn’t be able to say to yourself “thank goodness I made all this money.” You will be able to say, however, “thankfully I’m checking out with my word and morality still intact.” xx
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