conversational creativity

creativity is but an unfolding conversation

“If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.”

— Mooji

Alex Levy • Tweet

i will destroy old patterns by falling in love with unfamiliarity

꩜ • Tweet

"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

Conversation isn’t the exchange of finished ideas but the collective creation of understanding that neither party could have reached alone.

A Philosophy of Conversation

Agnes Callard • Tweet

A good conversation is an act of joint exploration. Somebody floats a half-formed idea. Somebody else seizes on the nub of the idea, plays with it, offers her own perspective based on her own memories, and floats it back so the other person can respond. A good conversation sparks you to have thoughts you never had before. A good conversation starts

David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

Astronaut Scott Kelly on intelligence:

“The smartest person in the room, I’ve learned, is usually the person who knows how to tap into the intelligence of every person in the room.”

orph • Tweet

the most transformative dialogues often feature exploration rather than predetermined outcomes. We don’t know what we want, and we use conversation to get closer to articulating our desire. Some conversations are infinite, like games for their own sake.