Process
Adam Mosseri on Rick Rubin’s Tetragammaton:
... See moreI worry about getting lost in the abstract. If you think far out in some ways, it's empowering because you can be thinking at a bigger scale. But in some ways, you can run the risk of getting lost in the abstract of the philosophical and becoming detached from the work. One of my greatest fears is that I b
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves…
— “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver
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
Like clothes or memes or slang, we try ideas on for a while—put them in shareable graphics, temporarily link them in bio, express them via viral tweet or op-ed, maybe print them on a T-shirt—before putting them aside for something more relevant.
Haley Nahman • #100: New idea trending
