Reminders for myself
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How do you get from starting small to doing something great? By making successive versions. Great things are almost always made in successive versions. You start with something small and evolve it, and the final version is both cleverer and more ambitious than anything you could have planned.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
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This is a very cool thing to do. I want to take a look at her themes closely.
“Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard.”
William Zinsser, On Writing Well
The Americans were always nervous, telling me I wasn’t shooting sufficient coverage. I took my assistant aside and asked, “What do they mean by coverage? I have insurance coverage for my car, but coverage when making a film?” They want me to get a range of intermediate shots, close-ups and reverse angles, all for safety’s sake. But I have always fi... See more
Henrik Karlsson • On Agency
Fucking Werner Herzog
Reality is shy—it only reveals itself to those who, like honest scientists, do not wish it to be something else.
Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
That’s one purpose of my research: to be an additive medium through which I can contribute to the graph of human knowledge my humble little node which draws from many others before me, and from which maybe someone in the future can draw upon as they create theirs.