👩🏾‍🎨Creativity
It reminds me of writing and how I wake up week after week and get stuck on the blank page again and again. How I always despair that I have no more good ideas and, even if I did, not enough eloquence to convey said ideas. But I love it still. I love how writing brings everything to the surface, how it generates and absorbs my attention. How it
... See morein praise of slowing down
Writing
By writing fiction I have discovered some surprising things: for example that describing memories does not necessarily bring them to life. It can be the opposite: in the process of writing fiction I have overwritten some of my own memories. The act of writing has replaced them with something different, and I’ve effectively lost some of my own
... See moreWriting
Cringe tolerance: The crucial ability for creators to overcome embarrassment and release imperfect work to achieve success.
TRANSCRIPT
Cringe tolerance describes the psychological capacity to act, despite the certainty that others will judge your work as amateurish, naive, or embarrassing. It's the ability to post your first YouTube video knowing it will be awkward, to launch your website despite its obvious design flaws, to share your writing before it reaches professional
... See more"Everyone is in some way trying to be the same. Stay off of that. Develop yourself so you have your own voice. So that it's you they are looking for, not X. Develop a style, a way of working." — Mark Ruffalo
If you're small, you're in a position where it's to your advantage to be weird—you can have a point of view that the big tech companies never could. In the world of chairs—you're not going to build a cheaper chair than Ikea. Why not build something they couldn't—like a more interesting one
(Not Boring) Software Inc. • No More Boring Apps | (Not Boring) Software
Could you argue that anything that can be done well or beautifully that there is an art to it? What is art?
Art: the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
It doesn’t have to be
... See moreI’ve been sick or on my period for the better part of the past month so I’ve spent a ton of time on the couch. I’ve been working full time as per usual, and I’ve also been doomscrolling more than I’d like to admit…
When I pause to reflect - or when I’m too busy to be on my phone - I realize how much I love this little... See more
instagram.comQuality, not quantity, should be the guiding principle in our creative work. There should be a minimum bar of craftsmanship for what we put out into the world. One that gives us a sense of pride.
We should measure success by the quality of our work, not by the number of tasks completed.
We should measure success by the quality of our work, not by the number of tasks completed.