Creativity
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Creativity
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
youtube.comReally resonated with this talk. Using the art of coding as a basis, Bret talks about his life principle around ideas.
Here are some meditations:
Ideas start small and fragile.
Ideas need to be shaped.
Ideas should be tried as they are being thought.
Ideas need an environment where they can freely grow.
Creators should not be blind to what they are doing.
They should receive feedback from the idea itself.
See its reaction to their action.
Feel like Rick Rubin and Steve Jobs would dig Bret's ideas about ideas.
You’ve been so focused on self-improvement that you’ve forgotten what it feels like to be inspired.
Co-star, from my “year ahead” report.
For creative exploration, anecdotes are powerful, as they often represent outliers or anomalies in data which might be more indicative of new trends, attitudes, or areas of interest, than the averages derived from aggregated data.
-Rory Sutherland on the Rick Rubin podcast
There’s a point in your work/career/journey when you reach an escape velocity of sorts from your peers and the world around you. What you offer to others is just different enough that you become your own category of one: nothing but you will do. Not better, different.
kottke.org • Don’t Be the Best. Be the Only.
Sometimes the process of thinking looks like needless chaos from the outside
But thats what creatives should be doing.
Banging on random objects just to see what it might shake out.
Creatives need to make a mess in order to arrive at clarity.