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What if the “key to Karma” was always connected to The Tortured Poets Department?

When Taylor Nation posted that they “lost the key” in Vancouver, and later released The Final Show from that same Vancouver tour stop, one detail kept standing out to me: the inclusion of the Tortured Poets Department set.

And despite The Life of a Showgirl already being underway, so much of the imagery and promotional attention still seems to keep circling back toward the TTPD era.

The more I followed the connections, the more interconnected it all started feeling.

I expanded more below:

The Tortured Poets Department

And how authentic expression may be the key to karma

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After revisiting the “321 Backend Fetch Failed” Taylor Swift Easter egg, I started realizing there may have been far more to it than people quickly moved on from.

Shared the full breakdown here:

The Missing Clue

How a Taylor Swift Easter Egg Led Me to Web3

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In trying to understand why so much of modern life feels increasingly fragmented, emotionally charged, and exhausting, I kept running into the same thing: the systems built around the monetization of attention itself.

This eventually turned into a much broader exploration of the attention economy, Web2 platforms, media amplification, and the structures shaping online behavior.

Read more below:

The Attention Economy

And its impact on an individual, collective, and even planetary level

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I recently came across a letter Dorothy Arzner wrote to her film colleagues and students upon retiring from teaching filmmaking at UCLA.

Before teaching, Arzner had already established herself as a pioneering Hollywood director during the early studio era, helping shape many of the storytelling conventions modern cinema still relies on today.

Even though the letter was written in 1965, parts of her perspective still feel remarkably ahead of their time.

Included the full letter and some broader reflections here:

Starlight, by Dorothy Arzner (1965)

On influence, energy, and the stories we tell