The Bucket Theory of Creativity

For example, here are some Sublime collections from my library and the community more broadly:

• dreaming of a better internet


• all that we cannot know


• lil sites doing cool things


• but are the machines really learning tho? (which I created when adding this highlight to my library)


• we laugh so we do not cry


• What is art for


• nice things people have said about m

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As L. M. Sacasas recently wrote, “If your world is not enchanted, you’re not paying attention.”

“If your world is not enchanted, you’re not paying attention.”

Forget the myth of the 'Eureka!' moment, and allow me to suggest another way: the bucket theory of creativity.

Buckets are little homes for the things you want to explore deeper.

Maybe you’ll write or draw or build about them one day, but that’s not really the point.

All you gotta do is make some buckets.

Because making buckets creates a magnetic fo... See more