Barbara
"How to clarify a concept you can't articulate:
1. Change mediums. Draw it. Photograph it. Sing it.
2. Change levels. Explain what is one level up (bigger picture) or one level down (finer details).
3. Change fields. What would this concept look like in different fields?"(James Clear newsletter)
- Your brain works best when you are not instructing it on what to do. A lot of creative work is really just sitting around
from Daniel Vassallo on Applied Antifragility – Visión Periférica Podcast • Podcast Notes by Daniel Vassallo
- What are you being paid for? - The confidence that I have in my taste. And my ability to express what I feel, has proven helpful for artist. I feel the same applies to design most of the times. A so called good eye, taste, good ideas / direction goes a long way. https://t.co/ixNWQomsju- I think a lot about how we don’t have anything in software in the category of luxury.
- Slowing down allows you to disconnect from the frenzied pace buzzing around you so you can begin moving at your own pace. The moments we choose to live in fast-forward motion then become a conscious choice rather than an involuntary action.
from Doing Things Slowly
Art is the experience of what you’ve felt inside.
- When we look at the evolution of creativity, one story that can be told is that it was a concept designed to extricate divine procreative power from women and give it to men.
from A brief history of creativity (and power) by Elan Ullendorff
creation | ideas | inspiration
creatrix
By recognizing the higher-level consequences nature optimizes for, I've come to see that people who overweigh the first-order consequences of their decisions and ignore the effects of second- and subsequent-order consequences rarely reach their goals. This is because first-order consequences often have opposite desirabilities from second-order cons
... See moresecondary effect — longevity thinking
- Focus is a force multiplier on work.
Almost everyone I’ve ever met would be well-served by spending more time thinking about what to focus on. It is much more important to work on the right thing than it is to work many hours. Most people waste most of their time on stuff that doesn’t matter.
Once you have figured out what to do, be unstoppable about... See morefrom How to Be Successful by Sam Altman
