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Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations
To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with what everyone else is doing.
You are your audience - Create work that satisfies your own desires and interests rather than trying to please an imagined mass audience.
Small is more rewarding than big -
When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the
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A large percentage of people’s problems in work, love and life are due to some combination of vagueness and passivity. You don’t know what you want to spend your time on; you don’t know what kind of person you really get along with; you don’t know what kind of clothing looks good to you; you don’t know what you value in a city; you don’t know how... See more
Ava • Why You Should Write More
In order to learn you also need to forget, to make room, to stop seeing something one way so you can start seeing it another way - Mark Lewis
The audience comes last. The audience doesn't know what they want. The audience only knows what's come before. - Rick Rubin
Loneliness isn’t just personal. It’s institutional. It’s fiscal. It’s a bit engineered. It’s purposeful.
Kyla Scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World Is Friction
Loneliness and Money
To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you have to stop mindlessly consuming the Internet and start mindfully curating it.