Collect, Curate, Connect

Curiosity is voracious–the more you know the more you want to know; the more connections you make between the different bits of knowledge; the more ideas you have. Which is why curiosity is really the wellspring of creativity.

Like many other artists, I collect ideas. And every morning at 10am, I get a random text message containing an idea that I’ve saved in the past. Ambiently, it surfaces itself into my life every morning, usually while I’m working out. It’s something to think about.

My collecting took a more formal basis once I figured out content management systems, or figuring out ways to structure my collecting on the web. It seemed natural for it to be online. And public, because it’s online. Before that, it was just folders of things. No structure, no thought. I would put things that resonated with me somewhere, thinking