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If you want to do great work you have to interface with others—learn what they have figured out, find collaborators who can extend your vision, and other support. The trick is doing this without losing yourself. What solitude gives you is an opportunity to study what personal curiosity feels like in its undiluted form, free from the interference of... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
Avoiding feedback also doesn’t mean complete social isolation. A small research lab or a mission-driven startup can approximate a single mind and explore freely. But it does mean taking your own ideas seriously enough to see them through, even if others disagree. Even self-doubt as a form of feedback needs to be carefully regulated.
Leber • The Feedback Tradeoff
“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.”
— Bob Dylan
Decade Volcanoes
en.wikipedia.orgInstead of job descriptions, I wish companies would post a list of problems they want to solve and then you could apply to solve them.
Carly Valancysubstack.com“Have you tried doing less on the problem?” is an underrated strategy to get unstuck. Most people try to do more.
when Rick Rubin said the audience comes last and art must be your diary on display otherwise it’s not art it’s just commerce …… I felt that
sigh swoonx.comOne more thing about the ideology of Silicon Valley is that it is also this hyper-masculine worldview, which is another reason why I think they align so much with Trump and why that is such a seductive political system for them.
The term “alpha” is [not just] this financial extra. [I asked] one of the entrepreneurs I talked to, why would they leave
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