Creator Ethos
Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations
To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with what everyone else is doing.
You are your audience - Create work that satisfies your own desires and interests rather than trying to please an imagined mass audience.
Small is more rewarding than big - V
Some may worry about whether powerful new neural-network models for generating text and images will replace workers and artists. But this can be true only if beauty and creativity are measurable by one-dimensional metrics, if art and human endeavors are static forms whose rules and objectives do not change, if we reject the possibility of meaning a... See more
Nameless Feeling
if we want to be good founders and good technologists, I think one moral responsibility you have is the realization that whatever you build will affect people in unintended consequences.
How might you educate those leaders? How can you be the best steward of technology, but also be the best utilizer of technology?
How might you educate those leaders? How can you be the best steward of technology, but also be the best utilizer of technology?
On the Enduring Relevance of Marshall McLuhan
Posting can be fun, entertaining, and even enlightening. But when we want to share a creative act we went deep into the void to create, we owe our work more than a post. We owe it a RELEASE.
A RELEASE is a richer and deeper expression of an idea. A release is not just the work, it’s anticipating the work. There’s an invitation to become part of it i... See more
A RELEASE is a richer and deeper expression of an idea. A release is not just the work, it’s anticipating the work. There’s an invitation to become part of it i... See more
Yancey Strickler • Do you post or do you RELEASE?
Promotional Principles for Creative People
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