Creativity
the art of creativity
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Creativity
I don’t know.
The reason I don’t know is because I wouldn’t have thought that there would have been maps on it five years ago. But something comes along, gets really popular, people love it, get used to it, you want it on there. People are inventing things constantly and I think the art of it is balancing what’s on there and what’s not — it’s the editing function.
That right there is the recipe for genuine innovation:
Embrace uncertainty and the fact one doesn’t know the future.
Understand that people are inventing things — and not just technologies, but also use cases — constantly.
Remember that the art comes in editing after the invention, not before.
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Connections.
one, criticizing someone is easy; two, creating something original is very hard; three, but somebody’s got to do it.
Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami
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Creativity, Tinker likes to say, is a function of the “library in your head.” “When you sit down to create something…what you create is a culmination of everything you’ve seen and done previous to that point.” What you pour out is a culmination of everything you’ve filled up on previous to that point.
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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.
The founder of Teenage Engineering opens up to his creative space
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