What cynics cannot tolerate - which is why they’ve become a core part of the anti-tech movement - is unresolved ambiguity , particularly at the horizon of our ambition where progress is fuzzy and aspirational.
I work best from a place of zero ego and zero hope. I call this state being “lower than a worm.” A feeling that nothing will ever come of what I’m working on is crucial. A feeling of my smallness in relation to the world. I gotta be below the dirt. I am nothing and nobody. That frees me up. Who cares what a worm thinks, you know?
The monomyth appeals to us because the hero is Special and has a Cosmic Mission that gives him/her unquestionable definite purpose. We have difficult choices about life-paths, which people in the archaic times of myth simply didn't. They had to play the random hand dealt to them. https://t.co/mTuzfneWkq
the ideas already exist
the person who surfaces them at the right moment in the right context with a freshly curated set of words and shapes earns the glory of invention