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I think of art as a message in a bottle that I’m sending out there. These are all the things that make me feel vulnerable and human and this is a secret I’m going to whisper into it. And I’m going to send it out into the sea, and hopefully somebody’s going to come back and say, “Me too,” waving from another island.

In order for me to hopefully find ... See more

Yulin Kuang, On getting things done, Creative Independent.

How to focus your message into a reach.

All writing about despair is ultimately insincere. Putting fingers to keys or pen to paper is secretly an act of hope, however faint—hope that someone will read your words, hope that someone will understand. Someone who truly feelsdespair wouldn’t bother to tell anyone about it because they wouldn’t expect it to do anything. All text produced in de... See more

Adam Mastroianni • 28 Slightly Rude Notes on Writing

From Adam Mastroianni’s 28 slightly rude notes on writing

Notes on work:
Working with one’s door closed lets you get more work done per year than if you had an open door, but I have observed repeatedly that later those with the closed doors, while working just as hard as others, seem to work on slightly the wrong problems, while those who have let their door stay open get less work done but tend to work on

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