Notes on creativity

A writing example: when I look back in my notes I realize so much of what I write about today I was ruminating about 2-3 years ago. I always knew what I was going to say. I just didn’t have the tools, I didn’t have the maturity, I didn’t have the language or sensitivity to beauty to recognize what that was. So much of what I learned was latent,... See more

AI Will Replace Knowledge, Not Wisdom

He believes AI will devalue surface-level knowledge and experience — and that the human edge will lie in intuition, imagination, and insight .

"Uncertainty is wisdom in motion," said Maggie Jackson

When we shift creativity from the margins to the center of our definition of a good life, we don’t just spark more innovation — we create the conditions for a more connected, joyful, and just world.

I am relentless about releasing work into the world.

I think one of the curses of being a human creative is that you can’t see what you want to improve until you press publish, and let yourself be seen. Release, release, release. This is the only way you learn. The power is not in the success of the piece — the power is in the releasing.

Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbirdand A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had. And that is herself, her

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