Creativity
by Forest Linden · updated 4d ago
Creativity
- My information consumption philosophy is simple: (1) It must have a long shelf life. (2) It must have taken considerable effort to create. With these two principles, you can cut out most of the junk from your information diet.
Forest Linden added 4d ago
- Our bias is to always add more. More rules, more procedures, more code, more features, more stuff. Interdependencies proliferate, and gradually strangle us. Systems want to grow and grow, but without pruning, they collapse. Slowly, then spectacularly.
When a piece of trash drifts across the beach, it is our duty to pick it up so the next person can ... See morefrom What Can We Remove? by Steph Ango
Forest Linden added 4d ago
“A friend challenged Dr. Suess to write a children’s book using only 50 unique words. His answer to that test would become the best selling book of his prolific career, Green Eggs and Ham.
Constraints can force us to be more creative by pushing us to do more with less.”
-from Non Obvious Thinking by Rohit Bhargava and Ben DuPont.Forest Linden added 1mo ago
- “The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
—James Baldwinfrom Tweet by Tara Skurtu
Forest Linden added 2mo ago
from Make your Stuff by Austin Kleon:
“it’s not enough to be good. In order to be found, you have to be findable.”
“If you want people to know about what you do and the things you care about, you have to share.”
“Make stuff you love and talk about stuff you love and you’ll attract people who love that kind of stuff. It’s that simple.”
“Teaching people
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- In 1985, Nike held a 24-hour shoe design contest. Nike was struggling. Their stock dropped 50%. They had to lay off people. Adidas, Converse, and Reebok were all selling more shoes. So in a panicked attempt to find creative talent, Nike held a shoe design contest. The winner was a corporate architect named Tinker Hatfield. “Two days after the compe... See more
Forest Linden added 4mo ago
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