On creativity et al
“You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.”
― Anne Bogart
― Anne Bogart
Anne Bogart Quotes (Author of A Director Prepares)
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.
Packy McCormick • Most Human Wins
“Do you think human creativity matters? Well, most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about poetry, right? They have a life to live and they’re really not that concerned with Allen Ginsberg’s poems or anyone’s poems—until, their father dies; they go to a funeral; you lose a child; someone breaks your heart.
And all of a sudden you’re
... See moreWhat we all unequivocally value, readers and writers, all of us as enjoyers of creativity, is the mind-expanding energy that’s only found in art, in any of its forms, as a means to share the things that make our minds alike and the things that make them different. AI systems can do many things but they can’t — and never will be able to — expand our... See more
How to Survive as a Human Creator in the AI Era
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
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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... See more
And honestly, there’s something about practice for its own sake that... See more
WIBTAL • Learning’s Cool, but Doing Is Better
