Creative Process
I’ve finally realized why I’ve never been a fan of focusing just on productivity without focusing on other things as well.
Productivity is a natural outcome that happens when you have a deep purpose. When you have a deep purpose, you naturally come up with clear priorities to work on.
When you have a deep purpose and clear priorities, you become pr
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Act on your highest excitement
Whatever options are available to you at any given moment, choose the option that contains more excitement than the other (even if the excitement is just a little bit more)
To the best of your ability
Act on it to the best of your ability, taking it as far as you can until you can take it
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the deeper you go into any one thing, the more you find everything else quietly waiting there. steve reich discovered this in music: "whatever you pursue, if you really begin to pursue it thoroughly and you really get into many, many aspects of it, it flowers and blooms and begins to get into areas you never would have imagined were possible." what... See more
There’s one way of defeating the inner censor that’s reliable,” he explains. “Just outrun it. If you’re writing 500 words in an hour, there’s just no time for paralysing cogitation.” It doesn’t only apply to writing, though. Virtually any idea, for any kind of useful or worthwhile action to take, proves easier to accomplish, and goes better, when I... See more
“I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.”
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
rich kids being able to do art for a living may be a reflection on their privilege but it seems to me like a reflection on the fact that a human that doesn't have to worry about money will often choose art. everyone is an artist until rent is due. i wish we all had that right
Rich kids have a moral obligation to either make art or make the world better imo.
There’s no use in just joining mckinsey and hoarding more money if you’re set already
