project based life
Stop feeling guilty about having multiple hobbies. Society has told you that you're "scattered" or "unfocussed" but being multi-passionate is your creative superpower. Remember: DaVinci had 50+ interests too.
maia strzygowski | Substack
What are you excessively curious about — curious to a degree that would bore most other people? That's what you're looking for.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
If you're the person who has 47 half-finished creative projects and society makes you feel guilty about it:
Those aren't failures. They're experiments. You're not broken. You're researching what makes your soul come alive.
Keep exploring.
Those aren't failures. They're experiments. You're not broken. You're researching what makes your soul come alive.
Keep exploring.
Jonathan Nott (@jonathannott)
Real humans are weird and contradictory. They have random obsessions that don't fit their "brand." They go through phases. They abandon hobbies and pick them back up years later.
They contain multitudes, and those multitudes don't need to have a coherent narrative thread.
They contain multitudes, and those multitudes don't need to have a coherent narrative thread.
Michelle Pellizzon Lipsitz • Home | Substack
Goals are projects that lost their soul to a productivity app. Projects are what happen when your creativity puts on its best outfit and choses violence.
Michelle Pellizzon Lipsitz • Home | Substack

Charismatic and magnetic people are CONFUSING.
They’ve got edges. Beautiful, fascinating, craggy edges that give people something to hold onto. The kind of edges that snag people's attention like a ring catching on a sweater.
They start a podcast about medieval brewing techniques while learning to code so they can personally figure out how to replace... See more
They’ve got edges. Beautiful, fascinating, craggy edges that give people something to hold onto. The kind of edges that snag people's attention like a ring catching on a sweater.
They start a podcast about medieval brewing techniques while learning to code so they can personally figure out how to replace... See more
Michelle Pellizzon Lipsitz • be more confusing, actually
