The Melt by Jason Diamond

The Melt by Jason Diamond

We're In the Middle of The Great Flattening

Creating can be hard, but it shouldn't feel impossible.

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Jason Diamond
Feb 10, 2026
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I know this guy we’ll call Jack. He moved out to Los Angeles during the 2010s after ten years of working in the NYC hospitality industry. Around that time, all kinds of people I knew who could begrudgingly be put under the label of “creative types” made the same move throughout the decade, supposedly because there was a whole new gold rush happening out…

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