conversational creativity
creativity is but an unfolding conversation
conversational creativity
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
your heart knows when a story is True in some very deep way. there's some phenomena i call "slop sickness" where you get this horrible churning feeling in your stomach from reading a story that isn't resonant, when a company is stealing the soul of another. you can feel it
Will Manidis • Tweet
A conversation’s trajectory shapes not just what is said, but what becomes possible to say, in turn.
A Philosophy of Conversation
Although many have tried many times, it is not really possible to command scenius into being. Every start up company, or university would like their offices to be an example of scenius. The number of cities in the world hoping to recreate the scenius of Silicon Valley is endless, but very few have achieved anything close. Innumerable art scenes
... See moreKevin Kelly • Scenius, or Communal Genius
the hero's journey sometimes gets formulated as "you must go into the unknown, & bring something back"
I think there's a second, overlooked way: "you must go into the unknown - & bring others with you."
some people never 'come back' - they discover somewhere new & stay there
I think there's a second, overlooked way: "you must go into the unknown - & bring others with you."
some people never 'come back' - they discover somewhere new & stay there
Rudra Dakini • Tweet
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
-John Steinbeck
It’s not that I know how to do this. It’s that my soul is guiding me through this.
—life mantra
—life mantra
McCall Erickson on Substack
