Alex Burns

Time is the most undervalued ingredient in creativity. It’s not a luxury. It’s a necessity. Only proper time allows for proper exploration. Proper exploration will result in better insight, concepts and results. The more time you allow for creative work, ironically the faster you are likely to reach a breakthrough.

Forty hour work weeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes—train and sprint, then rest and reassess.

Whenever you can in life, optimize for independence rather than pay. If you have independence and you’re accountable on your output, as opposed to your input—that’s the dream.

Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.

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Specific knowledge is knowledge you cannot be trained for. If society can train you, it can train someone else and replace you.

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Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.

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Building specific knowledge will

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Make art, and while everyone is deciding what they think of it, make more art.” — Andy Warhol

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

— Herman Hesse, Siddhartha