WIKIPEDIA (feat. Rick Rubin)

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia Wikipedia's purpose is to benefit readers By presenting information on all branches of knowledge It consists of content Whose articles also have numerous links To guide readers to more information Since its creation on January 15, 2001 It has grown into the world's largest reference website Attracting over a billion visitors monthly Wikipedia currently has more than 62 million articles In more than 300 languages including 6,752,844 articles in English With 122,614 active contributors in the past month Wikipedia differs from printed references in important ways It is continually created and updated and encyclopedic articles on new events Appear within minutes rather than months or years Because anyone can improve Wikipedia It has become more comprehensive than any other encyclopedia Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet Is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge Let's listen to Wikipedia Something I say in the book is that the audience comes last And I believe that I'm not making it for them I'm making it for me And it turns out that when you make something truly for yourself you're doing the best thing you possibly can for the audience So much of why, if you go to the movies So many big movies are just not good It's because they're not being made by a person who cares about it They're being made by people who are trying to make something That they think someone else is going to like And that's not how art works That's something else. It's not art That's commerce So if we're making art It's almost like a diary entry So could I be concerned that someone else might not like my diary entry It doesn't make sense It has nothing to do with them My diary entry has nothing to do with anyone else So everything we make as artists are essentially diary entries Written by: i1, Kenny Obinna Umeh, Frederick Jay Rubin