đ§ craft
Increasingly, the work that stand out will be more raw and incomplete (because â by definition â new ideas havenât been optimized becauseâŚthey are new).
Eno explains:
"[On one end, you have] auto-tune that perfectly puts music into tuneâŚwhich is sort of flawless and faultless. [In contrast, the other side] is clumsy, awkward, crude and unfinished... See more
Eno explains:
"[On one end, you have] auto-tune that perfectly puts music into tuneâŚwhich is sort of flawless and faultless. [In contrast, the other side] is clumsy, awkward, crude and unfinished... See more
Creativity, Tinker likes to say, is a function of the âlibrary in your head.â âWhen you sit down to create somethingâŚwhat you create is a culmination of everything youâve seen and done previous to that point.â What you pour out is a culmination of everything youâve filled up on previous to that point.
Funnily enough, the only way to produce our best work is to take the requisite time away from it. It is only through a still and relaxed mind where we can think clearly and make the most of our talents and abilities.
Lawrence Yeo ⢠The Omnipresence of Work - More To That
In our society, the spaces for adults to play are mostly constrained, for example, to sports, or going to the pub. And opportunities to live a life of imagination are reserved for exceptionally privileged people, like designers, actors, artists and film directors. This lack of imagination in our lives is an existential risk for society and... See more
Medium ⢠Rewilding the Imagination
Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.... See more
David Foster Wallace,
Nix đ ⢠carry yourself lightly
Here are some other techniques people use to access and maintain the zone:
- Introducing a long delay between when you do the work and when it is shown to the world. Annie Ernaux writes about this in A Simple Passion, a memoir about how she becomes obsessed in a banal way with a man who is having an affair with herâthe thought that others will read
Substack ⢠Notes | Substack
What we are trying to do influences what becomes salient to us. If you are looking for a friend in a crowd, faces become salient to you, faces that would have otherwise passed you by. If you are making videos, you will notice patterns in the videos you watch. If youâre not, you can watch a thousand videos and have them pass through your head
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loving the process
Natalie Audelo and ⢠150 cards
Cameraperson by Kirsten Johnson
AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF WHAT THE CAMERAPERSON ENABLES For the cameraperson: âAccess and a reason to stay in worlds not of oneâs own âPermission to behave, ask, do in ways that are transgressive/ outside social norms âComplete distraction from oneâs own life âThe creation of evidence of experience âThe chance to be
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