Alex Dobrenko

For Maisel, one of the fundamental reasons people in creative roles are more likely to be affected by anxiety is because they’re constantly being forced to make choices. “Choosing provokes anxiety,” he says. “Most professions don’t demand that you have to make one choice after another, which provokes anxiety. Going into the unknown—even if we’re... See more

A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

My point is not that I alone am TRULY GREAT (although that’s obviously the subtext of most of what I write). I just mean that some of us have much, much more to say than just what is absolutely necessary, and when we walk around believing that we should shut the fuck up most of the time, we’re playing by the rules of people who either 1) don’t have... See more

There’s a lot of young man’s anger in that show that’s kind of disguised as absurdity or silliness,” he says. “I don’t always want to do that. Or if I did do that all the time, it would be awful. It’d just be, like, Fuck this guy .”