[BIFFS vol. 1] Rest does not require artifacts

Time’s gift is experience. Experience sharpens the craft. It acts as a prediction machine, and a pattern recognizer. It cuts through the extraneous. It moves decisively. It supercharges intuition. It’s a long-range antennae for spotting opportunity and potential. It broadens the intellectual and emotional palette from which to draw from. It provide... See more

Creative endeavors are inspiring because the scope of the problem often feels bigger than your capacity to solve it. But because you find that problem so worthwhile, you’re willing to put in the effort required to provide the best solution possible. Through this process, you become a more capable person, which allows you to address more worthwhile ... See more

I’m thinking about how the only way to get better at making things is to make things, and to let the thinking happen inside the work – where you can judge a thing based on how it feels – instead of outside the work.

We’re made so uneasy by the experience of allowing reality to unfold at its own speed that when we’re faced with a problem, it feels better to race toward a resolution—any resolution, really, so long as we can tell ourselves we’re “dealing with” the situation, thereby maintaining the feeling of being in control. So we snap at our partners, rather t... See more