creativity
“Do you think human creativity matters? Well, most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about poetry, right? They have a life to live and they’re really not that concerned with Allen Ginsberg’s poems or anyone’s poems—until, their father dies; they go to a funeral; you lose a child; someone breaks your heart.
And all of a sudden you’re
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Dr. Felix S. Grenwood • Algorithms of Mediocrity — william
I'd come to think our brains needed help transforming from trash compactors into microscopes, and that's where art comes in: a way to fight our instincts to truncate and elide, and, in so doing, to notice more, appreciate more, empathize more. Which is all to say, to experience more. If our lives are the set of experiences that we collect, then art
... See moreBianca Bosker • Get the Picture
Work backwards from the emotion you're trying to create in the reader. Then let the structure follow.
The price we pay for dreaming is the possibility of drowning; the price we pay for not dreaming is the surety of coasting through life in a stupor of autopilot, landlocked in the givens of our time, place, and culture. The dreamer, then, is the only one fully awake to life — that bright technology of the possible the universe invented to prevail
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But along the way, we lost something. The actual work we were producing.... See more
Jenny Wen • Jenny Wen — Don't trust the (design) process
“I don't say no because I'm so busy.
I say no because I don't want to be busy.”
Courtney Carver

quality has no discernable metric
-miter