feat(web): flatten frontmatter — drop slug, flat tags/cats, auto-bump updatedDate [skip ci]
diff --git a/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md b/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md index f6d5273..c02e5d7 100644 --- a/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md @@ -1,19 +1,18 @@ --- title: "Going against the grain" -slug: going-against-the-grain pubDate: 2023-12-15T17:00:00.000Z updatedDate: 2026-04-05T14:40:01.000Z draft: false excerpt: "In December 2023, SLIST threw an industrial techno event in SoHo. The conventional wisdom said this was a ridiculous idea. Hard techno belongs in Brooklyn. SoHo is for bottle service … Read more" categories: - - { name: Values, slug: values } + - Values tags: - - { name: curation, slug: curation } - - { name: format-opinion, slug: format-opinion } - - { name: growth, slug: growth } - - { name: nyc, slug: nyc } - - { name: tone-reflective, slug: tone-reflective } - - { name: venues, slug: venues } + - curation + - format-opinion + - growth + - nyc + - tone-reflective + - venues featured: src: https://cdn.slist.net/posts/going-against-the-grain/cover.pngDiff truncated (32 lines total). View full commit on GitHub →
content: rewrite image URLs from slist.net/wp-content to cdn.slist.net/posts/<slug>/
diff --git a/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md b/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md index 556ce7c..f6d5273 100644 --- a/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ tags: - { name: tone-reflective, slug: tone-reflective } - { name: venues, slug: venues } featured: - src: https://slist.net/wp-content/uploads/ai_69d26908267626.58293697.png + src: https://cdn.slist.net/posts/going-against-the-grain/cover.png alt: "Footprints going against the direction of the crowd on industrial concrete floor" legacy_wp_id: 15903 ---fix(web): point upload URLs at slist.net (cdn.slist.net not wired up yet)
diff --git a/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md b/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md index 4c35d16..556ce7c 100644 --- a/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ tags: - { name: tone-reflective, slug: tone-reflective } - { name: venues, slug: venues } featured: - src: https://cdn.slist.net/ai_69d26908267626.58293697.png + src: https://slist.net/wp-content/uploads/ai_69d26908267626.58293697.png alt: "Footprints going against the direction of the crowd on industrial concrete floor" legacy_wp_id: 15903 ---feat(web): visually mirror slist.net blog (index + single post)
diff --git a/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md b/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md index 1d6ca0c..4c35d16 100644 --- a/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md @@ -4,6 +4,19 @@ slug: going-against-the-grain pubDate: 2023-12-15T17:00:00.000Z updatedDate: 2026-04-05T14:40:01.000Z draft: false +excerpt: "In December 2023, SLIST threw an industrial techno event in SoHo. The conventional wisdom said this was a ridiculous idea. Hard techno belongs in Brooklyn. SoHo is for bottle service … Read more" +categories: + - { name: Values, slug: values } +tags: + - { name: curation, slug: curation } + - { name: format-opinion, slug: format-opinion } + - { name: growth, slug: growth } + - { name: nyc, slug: nyc } + - { name: tone-reflective, slug: tone-reflective } + - { name: venues, slug: venues } +featured: + src: https://cdn.slist.net/ai_69d26908267626.58293697.png + alt: "Footprints going against the direction of the crowd on industrial concrete floor" legacy_wp_id: 15903 --- In December 2023, SLIST threw an industrial techno event in SoHo. The conventional wisdom said this was a ridiculous idea. Hard techno belongs in Brooklyn. SoHo is for bottle service and fashion people. An industrial rave in a Manhattan neighborhood known for shopping and art galleries would be a guaranteed failure.feat(web): full posts+pages sync, browseable UI, curated pages allowlist
diff --git a/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md b/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1d6ca0c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2023/going-against-the-grain/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +title: "Going against the grain" +slug: going-against-the-grain +pubDate: 2023-12-15T17:00:00.000Z +updatedDate: 2026-04-05T14:40:01.000Z +draft: false +legacy_wp_id: 15903 +--- +In December 2023, SLIST threw an industrial techno event in SoHo. The conventional wisdom said this was a ridiculous idea. Hard techno belongs in Brooklyn. SoHo is for bottle service and fashion people. An industrial rave in a Manhattan neighborhood known for shopping and art galleries would be a guaranteed failure. + +It sold out. Then the next one sold out. Then the next one. Ten events followed over six months, each one building on the last. Other promoters — larger ones, better funded ones — watched this happen and started booking their own hard techno events in Manhattan. SLIST had not just thrown a successful party. It had opened a market that nobody believed existed. + +* * * + +The pattern is consistent. Someone says a thing cannot be done. SLIST does the thing. The thing works. The people who said it could not be done either pretend they never said it or start doing it themselves. This has happened enough times that the skepticism itself has become a reliable signal. If the scene consensus says it will fail, it is probably worth trying. + +Before the SoHo expansion, SLIST was rejected by Basement, the Brooklyn venue that had positioned itself as the gatekeeper of the underground. The rejection was personal. It landed during a period of accumulated grief and frustration. The response was not to try harder to get in. The response was to build something that made the approval irrelevant. Within months, SLIST was running events that drew bigger crowds than the venues that had rejected it. The rejection was not a setback. It was a directional signal. + +The Mexico City chapter follows the same arc. Two people refused to put the founder on their guest list. The response was to build a guest list so large and so well-curated that it became the most valuable access point in the city. The people who withheld access created the motivation to build a system that made their access worthless. Spite as ignition, infrastructure as result. + +* * * + +Going against the grain is not contrarianism for its own sake. It is a philosophical position rooted in a specific observation: the experts are often wrong. The facts that everyone takes for granted because an authority repeated them are frequently just conventions that nobody has bothered to test. The rave scene is particularly susceptible to this because it runs on social consensus. If enough promoters agree that something will not work, nobody tries it, and the consensus becomes self-fulfilling prophecy. +Diff truncated (42 lines total). View full commit on GitHub →
