Spotlight on Grimes
Grimes, a musician, artist, singer, songwriter, producer, and director, was interviewed on April 29th by Lex Fridman. Grimes discussed life, history, technology, music consciousness, and the role of AI in the future of humanity.
Much of what she shared relates to the experience of newcomers entering web3. So for those who don't have time to listen to the full interview (attached below and very worthwhile!) here are some highlights:
In order to build creative muscle, it takes a lot of failure.
When you’re being creative, you’re throwing paint at the wall..and a lot of it is tolerance for failure and humiliation.
Tolerance to failure is a super essential skill that should be taught.
Grimes talked about being a mother and spending her energy raising her child - viewing this as under compensated, essential work.
Programming a child requires as much time and importance as society values programming a computer.
She shared that she felt guilty taking time away from her creative work to take care of her children. She expressed that her personal priorities have shifted and she cares less about working and more about her children - which she has been taught isn’t feminist - but goes on to encourage that "feminist" needs to be redefined so that women can prioritize what they deem important.
Grimes proposed a profound feminist idea- to create a “Motherhood DAO” that could harness the power of crypto/web3 to compensate mothers for the essential and under-appreciated job of raising children.
Here’s a video we created (with her voice and her song) inspired by the interview:
Grimes also shared quotes that inspired her:
“Don’t kill what you hate, save what you love”, Star Wars, Ep. 8
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller, an American architect & futurist
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.” Terence McKenna, an ethnobotanist
Here is a link to the full interview: