On creativity et al

“You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.”

― Anne Bogart

My theory why quality is so rare is that it is rare to have people care for their work or allowed to care for their work. The culture shifted from people doing their craft to fastest way to check the checkbox https://t.co/v1BWuArhKE... See more

This will be a theme of 2025. Understand what was formerly scarce and is now commoditized. Don’t shrink from it. Play with it. Experiment. See what it can do that you used to have to do. Learn what you can do with it that you couldn’t before.

I think about this a lot: how learning needs to be tied to something real. Not just deadlines but stakes. It doesn’t have to be high pressure, but there has to be a reason to care. Without that, it’s easy to get stuck in a loop of tutorials and practice for the sake of practice.

And honestly, there’s something about practice for its own sake that fe... See more

I get that some people might see this differently. Maybe they’d say tying learning to deadlines or stakes adds too much pressure. And they’re not wrong—pressure can be a lot. But it’s also what makes you show up. It’s what forces you to stop thinking about how to start and actually start. And I don’t think the pressure has to kill the joy. The joy ... See more

The thing about being self-taught is that it often comes with a quiet sense of inferiority. Not because you are inferior, but because you’re convinced there’s something you skipped over—something a structured process would have taught you.