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- Borrow ideas shamelessly. A blog post, a doodle, a conversation—treat them as creative ingredients.
- Add your perspective. What’s your unique take? How can you connect this idea to something else?
- Keep a swipe file. This could be a digital folder, a notebook, or even a Pinterest board filled with things that inspire you.
Jenn • How to Build a Personal Knowledge System That Fuels Your Creativity
Curate inspiration every day. Find apps, sites, and publications where you can brows through steams of inspiration, and save anything you like into niche buckets of interests. You'll get more creative, and you'll start to see ideas and make connections you hadn't considered before.
Marty Bell • WePresent | Marty Bell’s 10 tips for a more fulfilling (and fun) life
Of course, there are major ethical issues to work out—leaps forward in technology often walk a fine line between deeply-impactful and dystopian. Among the questions we need to figure out:
- Who is responsible for AI’s mistakes?
- Who is the creator of an AI work? Is it the AI? The developers? The person who wrote the prompt? The people whose work was
Rex Woodbury • AI in 2023: The Application Layer Has Arrived
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youtu.beconvenience culture is killing our creative impulses
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And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns… that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn’t have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale… that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorient myself.
-Bob Dylan
"Running one mile has more in common with running a marathon than sitting at home.
Investing $100 has more in common with being a millionaire than being broke.
Writing one sentence has more in common with writing a book than never writing one.
It always feels small in the beginning and the big goals seem far away. It's easy to talk yourself out of the
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