conversational creativity

When drawing, the trick is to spend more time looking at the thing you are trying to draw than at your picture. This is true for writing, too.

It’s not that I know how to do this. It’s that my soul is guiding me through this.

—life mantra

And this is why I put “ayy lmao” in my meme about the heart of philosophy. Laughter is the divine thing that transmutes stupid bullshit into something real. It cracks up the edifice of polite fictions and tedious prattle and gets to the heart of things. And fun, I think, always has a spirit of laughter about it, even if you’re doing it quietly with... See more

The good thing about conversations is that you realize how little you know.

The worst thing about conversations is that you realize how little you know.

starting to suspect having a good conversation and feeling connected is not primarily eye contact or asking a lot of questions or not talking about yourself or whatever, or even curiosity, but some yet more fundamental thing that drives all of it like ... joie de vivre??

i get the sense the core thing is actually quite simple, and all the indicators... See more