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The people who need what only you can create will find it whether they can comment or not. They’ll carry your work with them in their hearts and share it with friends who need it, too. Let your vulnerability give them permission to face their own demons.

This susceptibility creates a feedback loop: surface-level appreciation leads to surface-level creation, reinforcing superficial engagement. The result is a flattening aesthetic experience, where beauty becomes increasingly standardized and shallow.

You know that feeling you get when an idea just resonates, but you’re not quite sure why? Intuition is one term for it. My friend Peter Pelberg calls these pings , and he has built a practice around collecting pings and recognizing patterns over time. Whatever it’s called—collect it and let it go

Urban photographers should spend a day in the countryside, and landscape photographers should explore city centres. The contrast alone will sharpen your eye.

Write a tarot haiku! Draw three cards, and write a line for each in the haiku style (7 syllables for the first line, 5 syllables for the second line, and another 7 syllables for the final line).

Don’t have a tarot deck at home? Use this free tarot tool to pick your three cards.

Here’s my response to the exercise, which I did as a morning warmup. The... See more

‘objective’, detailed description can invite a keener subjective response in the reader than a gushing description of a character’s emotions. So, a description of a coffin — its tarnished brass handles, the gloss of the black paint, the flowers that have slipped — is enough for us to respond with our own sentiment, our own recollection of grief. We... See more