3-2-1: On cheat codes, love as a creative force, and how to make something great
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3-2-1: On cheat codes, love as a creative force, and how to make something great
how can I be less calculative with my work?
I shoudl do this because it will get me this or help me with that?
How can i just make something just because I want to? and then figure out if and how it fits into the world?
I tend to be drawn to personal friendships that are also creative. That’s just the most fun. The people who I connect with the most are people who when we sit down and have dinner we end up talking about this cool idea, and all the sudden it’s technically work. But it’s a project, so just going out to lunch with a friend is like, “Oh, there’s a coo... See more
Vernon Chatman on Staying True to Your Stupid Ideas
Here are some other techniques people use to access and maintain the zone:
- Introducing a long delay between when you do the work and when it is shown to the world. Annie Ernaux writes about this in A Simple Passion, a memoir about how she becomes obsessed in a banal way with a man who is having an affair with her—the thought that others will read th