Haley Helmold
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Haley Helmold
To take it a bit further, he teased out those traits saying that both artists and entrepreneurs...
“...Want to express themselves.
Want to do something differently.
Want to create something better than what’s ever been done before.
They are disruptive.
They live in the theater of risk.
They want to change the world...”
“...Want to express themselves.
Want to do something differently.
Want to create something better than what’s ever been done before.
They are disruptive.
They live in the theater of risk.
They want to change the world...”
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Entrepreneur
The fundamental message of marketing must change from "we want your money" to "we share your interests".
Jeff Jarvis • WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO
For those of us struggling and aching to say something different, to be distinctly our own, to reject the stifling rationality of the world around us in favor of the symbolic, the creative, and the divine, creating a world is our path.
Yancey Strickler • Worldbuilding is creative resilience
I think we adults have a similar innate drive to create, and that drive can be supported or stifled by the environment. And, I think that instead of creating environments where we are creative by default , we live in a world where we are distracted by default .
Casey Rosengren • Creative by Default
most importantly: labor is not renewable. once you spend labor, you cannot get it back. energy, when given in alignment, can be generative. energy invested in the right places can create more energy.
Kening Zhu • honoring your creative energy in business — kening zhu
In other words, to produce work and build an audience in the digital context is a dynamic choreography, and to succeed depends on the degree to which your mindset is emergent: Adaptable, responsive, and always in the process of becoming something new.
Christina Rosalie • 5 Ways To Cultivate An Emergent Mindset
- Be quiet, work hard, and stay healthy. It’s not ambition or skill that is going to set you apart but sanity.
21 career advice that matter
Another good read: Ted Chiang on why Ai isn’t going to make great art, for The New Yorker . I rather liked this analogy:
As the linguist Emily M. Bender has noted, teachers don’t ask students to write essays because the world needs more student essays. The point of writing essays is to strengthen students’ critical-thinking skills; in the same way... See more
Meanwhile #213
like DUH do people really see more value in output that is instant or automated than years of actually developed skills