On Creativity
it's okay to make things that feel incomplete
ayandastood • Why You Never Finish Creative Projects
Though we yearn for clarity, the universe whispers caution. If you listen closely to those who’ve made it, you’ll find what many of them want most is to return to the unknown. Kurt Cobain said he wished he could’ve stayed forever in the moment right before Nirvana got big. Virgil Abloh believed no piece mattered more than having the freedom to make... See more
Yancey Strickler • What we lose when we start with the ending
Finding stories is a skill - and you need to practice it every day.
And that's the beauty of Homework for Life.
It's simple enough to do even on your busiest days.
Two columns: date and story.
Five minutes, one story, one sentence.
The Evolution and Extinction of Ideas in Culture
The myth of a fully formed, genius-generated idea is debunked. Ideas emerge gradually, colliding and mutating along the way. While some ideas thrive for a time, they can eventually become extinct. Ideas replicate and change rapidly, creating a raucous environment. They infect and spread without concer
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From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.
if you’re serious about your work, you also have to work through your personal issues – you have to be kind, you have to be gracious, and so on – so that your work can really shine.
visakan veerasamy • Are You Serious?
PRINCE's work ethic
youtube.comIf you read all the time what other people have done you will think the way they thought. If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what a lot of creative people do — get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could sligh
... See morepaulgraham.com • Richard Hamming: You and Your Research
I think taste almost can move in two directions. There is that internal sense of what am I feeling when I experience a work of art? What is happening in my own brain, in my soul when I listen to this music?
And then there’s this external idea of it, which is being super self-conscious about what other people are consuming, how they’re consuming it,
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