Authenticity
Through both the album itself and her content around it, Charli has been honest and candid about where she’s at. It’s a refreshingly honest contribution amidst a category clogged with insincerity. She’s holding the insecurity of being who she is, online, in the world, in these parties along with the rush of just being a person getting lit with her
... See morefrom How to Build Brand Energy by Grace Gordon
Keely Adler added 21d ago
- make decisions using our own creative values, not “industry standards.” We design our work and worlds from our best intentions, not our worst fears.
from We're already in creative groups, they're just not yet self-aware by Yancey Strickler
sari added 4mo ago
- “It seems to me,” the puppeteer Jim Henson (The Muppets, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, etc.) said, “that each of us expressing our own originality is the essence of our art and professionalism.” Don’t hide it. Embrace it. Express it. Manifest it through your discipline. Say it out loud
andrea added 5mo ago
- Compulsion. I think about that word a lot. I believe that all of us, carelessly walking about planet earth, are intrinsically compelled to do something . It’s in our nature, in the shape of our soul. To excel, to truly be the best, I think it’s crucial to spend time thinking about what that is. Because if you do something other than that, you’re no... See more
from How David Perell Uses ChatGPT as a Creative Partner by Dan Shipper
andrea added 5mo ago
- There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is ... See more
andrea added 6mo ago
- What I want to say most is that I am not an improved or better version of myself than I was a year ago because that is no longer a goal — but I am a truer version, a closer-in version, a more expansive and open version, a less clinging-to-certainty version, and that, to me, counts for a lot more than seeking to endlessly upgrade myself.
andrea added 7mo ago
the goal is not to optimize yourself, it’s to get closer to yourself
- “[On one end, you have] auto-tune that perfectly puts music into tune…which is sort of flawless and faultless. [In contrast, the other side] is clumsy, awkward, crude and unfinished things that we all actually like in the right context.
The reason we like the Velvet Underground is not for their gloss. It's for their roughness. For the feeling we ha... See moreandrea added 7mo ago
Brian Eno on why we’re drawn to the new and authentic
- To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishmentfrom Tweet by Dylano | Essayful
rob hardy added 8mo ago
- Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
— Albert Camusfrom Tweet by Dylano | Essayful
rob hardy added 8mo ago