Do you post or do you RELEASE?
Content is king and context is queen. Understanding where a work comes from and what universe it exists within is what makes something special and valuable. Releasing establishes the context that lets the work be properly seen.
Yancey Strickler • Article
Separate creation and release. When you’ve finished a work, wait a while before you release it to the world. By then, you’re on to something new. The public comments won’t affect you, since they will be about your past work.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Thinking of a project as a label means thinking in “Releases”. Releasing work into the public and letting it go.
Yancey Strickler • 36. Re-bundling the creator economy + labels in web3 w/ Yancey Strickler
Severin Matusek added
Part of the process of letting go is releasing any thoughts of how you or your piece will be received. When making art, the audience comes last. Let’s not consider how a piece will be received or our release strategy until the work is finished and we love it.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Every release is a chance to find the people who connect with our ideas, and for us to better express the essence of what our project is about.
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
Keely Adler added
a place where the grand compulsion of archiving, from wherever it might arrive, can and will be attuned to — and, crucially, shared.
Alara added
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