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Tim Barden

Tim Barden

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Feb 21, 2025

Rewriting the Script: How Creators Can Take Control of Entertainment’s Future

The Challenge: Why Sustaining a Creative Career is So Difficult

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Tim Barden

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Apr 7, 2023

Joe, there are so many elements in this debate, and your essay does a great job exploring most.

One: The massive gap between supply/demand for talent. For every role cast, director hired, etc. thousands fought for that position…

Tim Barden

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May 11, 2022

Why Intellectual Superiority is an Oxymoron

Intellect — “the faculty of reasoning and understanding objectively, especially with regard to abstract or academic matters.” The Oxford…

Why Intellectual Superiority is an Oxymoron

Tim Barden

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May 1, 2022

This might make sense if there was a concurrent shift in our oversimplified attitude toward higher…

The past several decades have proven that it's no longer true that every college degree represents a prudent investment. If it did, there…

Tim Barden

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Feb 17, 2022

The Death of the American Dream

Lessons from Dr Zhivago.

The Death of the American Dream

Tim Barden

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Jan 8, 2022

A main catalyst for this phenomena is the impact of technology advances on the supply/demand curve…

As machine labour, automation, AI, IOT etc. represent viable, less expensive, more reliable alternatives to humans in a given industry or…

Tim Barden

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Nov 27, 2021

- According to the National Center for Education Studies, US degree granting post-secondary…

- Although roughly 70% percent of high school students continue on to college, the graduation rate is 46% (Hanson, Melanie. “College…

Tim Barden

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Nov 16, 2021

Your third point is overly optimistic I fear.

The economic and social impact of technology is not arithmetic, it's close to logarithmic. Human labour will increasingly fall short. As to…

Tim Barden

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Nov 6, 2021

Fabulous!

This is exactly the kind of thoughtful problem-solving that humanity's political leadership has to embrace and explore. Otherwise conflict…

Tim Barden

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Sep 1, 2021

I’m an Actor. Why Can’t I Get Cast?

Hint — It’s because you’re playing their game not yours.

I’m an Actor. Why Can’t I Get Cast?

Tim Barden

Tim Barden

Independent. Heterodox. Passionate about the arts, society and technology. IT Professional turned Arts Professional.

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