conversational creativity
creativity is but an unfolding conversation
conversational creativity
"Artifacts of humanity" in creative work — in the form of dust, mistakes, and deliberate strokes that flex human engagement — will showcase the human labor spent making a creation. Such artifacts of humanity, alongside Content Credentials that factually articulate how a piece of work was made, will add meaning and scarcity to the work in the eyes... See more
Scott Belsky • The Law of Displacement Speed & Leveraging Artifacts of Humanity
I believe that at the heart of everyone’s body of work there is a Defining Question: an unanswerable, deep-seated question that we hold subconsciously from the time it is seeded in our youth.
I also believe that alongside that question is an ache. Our exploration of our Defining Question is our attempt to soothe the... See more
When you stop reading, you stop writing.
When you stop writing, you stop thinking.
When you stop thinking, you stop feeling.
When you stop feeling, you stop believing.
When you stop believing, you stop building.
When you stop building, you stop bettering.
When you stop bettering, you stop caring.
When you stop caring, you stop living.
When you stop writing, you stop thinking.
When you stop thinking, you stop feeling.
When you stop feeling, you stop believing.
When you stop believing, you stop building.
When you stop building, you stop bettering.
When you stop bettering, you stop caring.
When you stop caring, you stop living.
Tom White • When You Stop Living
13 Creative Commandments:
1. Talent is an important differentiator, but talent needs to put in the hours to excel.
2. Question everything. Question what is good, what is bad, why you like or don't like something. It's more important than ever in an algorithmic industry to play by your own rules.
3. Stand by the work that you make. Do not place
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I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about the subject, always the conventional wisdom. It’s only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea.
... See moreWilliam Deresiewicz • Solitude and Leadership
Great works are unsettling, disorienting, they confound our expectations. In this definition, it’s almost impossible for a great work to be considered ‘refined’ at the time of its creation, because its elements are alien, they have not yet had time to have been weighed and evaluated.
Visakan Veerasamy • on scaffolding
No one ever begins anything, except by grace. To sin means to think that one can begin something oneself. We never start anything; we always respond.
— René Girard
— René Girard