Authenticity
What does it mean for something to be 'authentic'?
Keely Adler and
Authenticity
make decisions using our own creative values, not “industry standards.” We design our work and worlds from our best intentions, not our worst fears.
Yancey Strickler • We're Already in Creative Groups, They're Just Not Yet Self-Aware
That’s my big learning of the year: understanding the way someone’s interior life translates to what they make. When I first started writing this Substack, I was possessed by the sense that I had to figure out “how to do it.” Which other Substacks do I like, which other Substacks are popular, what do they write about, how do they make it work. It’s... See more
Ava • What We Talk About When We Talk About Taste
‘Do not try to be the best. Be the only.’ It helps me believe in a positive-sum world—where my success does not hinge on the failure of others, and I am not in a rat-race.” — Nishant Jain
Caroline Cala Donofrio • The Best Advice I've Ever Heard
Confessional art can be beautiful, and it can be terrible; either way, to love it only as a representation of what we already know is to deny it, and ourselves, a much richer complexity. Pop music is where fantasies are played out, turned into mansions and lived in, where five hundred people can tumble out of a clown car and every dream comes true.
... See more
