everything i read in february 2025

When you believe the work before you is the single piece that will forever define you, it’s difficult to let it go. The urge for perfection is overwhelming. It’s too much. We are frozen, and sometimes end up convincing ourselves that discarding the entire work is the only way to move forward. The only art the world gets to enjoy is from creators wh

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Your influences are all worth sharing because they clue people in to who you are and what you do—sometimes even more than your own work…

If you fail to properly attribute work that you share, you not only rob the person who made it, you rob all the people you’ve shared it with…Attribution is all about providing context for what you’re sharing: what

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Writer David Foster Wallace said that he thought good nonfiction was a chance to “watch somebody reasonably bright but also reasonably average pay far closer attention and think at far more length about all sorts of different stuff than most of us have a chance to in our daily lives.” Amateurs fit the same bill: They’re just regular people who get

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