Agency
Everything in our world is there because someone decided it needed to exist. We all have things we know need to exist. What stops us from making them exist?
Agency
The objective severity of our histories may be of little importance when compared to the subjective hold they appear to have on us.
To paraphrase physician and author Gabor Maté, we are not what happened to us but what happened inside of us as a result of what happened to us. https://t.co/RhbUWBtYCv
This is one of the greatest displays of the creative process I’ve seen.
It perfectly illustrates something many of my favorite artists have described.
When you go to the studio, Mayer was asked, what do you do to generate ideas?
“Well, I don’t always do it,” he... See more
Billy Oppenheimerx.comCreativity demands agency
omakase software
in a world where anyone can build anything, most won’t. if previous consumer behaviour tells us anything, it’s that we value convenience and and others’ taste way more than we think. even in systems designed for flexibility like notion, people buy templates
to be able to... See more
bencex.com
Sam Altman: "A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are.
People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt,… Show more
@visakanv Advanced topics in any domain are alluring for beginners as means to prevent action
Shawn Nirappiltwitter.comI think about this a lot. Maybe I shouldn't ha
the first time you do something that everyone in your social environment tells you is a bad idea, and it turns out you were right, is more psychoactive than any drug
Visakan Veerasamyx.comIt's tempting, sometimes, to idealize the trope of the "lazy genius."
I decline to do so. There is a great deal of tedious maintenance work someone needs to do to keep the world running, and an inability to consistently do so is not praiseworthy.
Some smart, low-conscientiousness people... See more
TracingWoodgrainstwitter.comWell written thread on discipline / tenacity / sticktoitiveness
The “scrub” believes that by learning to play the game the proper way, they will come out on top in the long run—that exploiting cheapness is shortsighted and doesn’t build skill.
Scrubs play for an imaginary version of “mastery”, while top players Play to Win.