We live in a culture of answers. Everywhere you turn there is someone with a piece of advice, the offer of a life-changing tip of something that you should be doing, the presentation of a clear and precise path forward. Sometimes on social media I feel like we’ve all turned ourselves into water-down self help book authors—every single post put... See more

Maybe this is born out of our age of convenience, in which listicle-driven reading makes us start to crave even the most complex of ideas to be broken down into small, digestible components. Why sit with something if you can just read a summary and move on? Let’s be honest, I’m sure we’ve all scanned a headline and assumed we read the piece.

That place where there is no one answer, a place that requires sitting with something for an extended period of time. Because that’s the place where creativity thrives.