The Craft
- But how do you keep talented people happy and creative?
“What we can do is construct an environment that nurtures trusting and respectful relationships and unleashes everyone’s creativity. If we get that right, the result is a vibrant community where talented people are loyal to one another and their collective work, everyone feels that they are par
... See morefrom Human resources by Austin Kleon
David Pennington added 1mo ago
- I don’t think we’ve ever needed genuine works of art — imaginative creations that press us to see the world in larger or at least different ways than our standard everyday media-navigation categories allow — more than we do now. But our current resources are few, because of the ways the major art-related organizations have lost any discernible sens... See more
from art for humanity’s sake – The Homebound Symphony by ayjay
David Pennington added 3mo ago
When it comes to art/ literature, airing on the side of the older typically seems to do us better. But the idea of criticism and gatekeeping is keeping some of the best ideas in a box.
Just because it doesn’ twork with your mentality doesn’t mean it’s not the lifesaver someone else is looking for.
- Stories don’t sell, they invite and inspire.
from The Universal Reminders – D.T. Pennington
David Pennington added 6mo ago
- A book where you can enter "sport" and end up with "a diversion of the field" -- this is in fact the opposite of what I'd known a dictionary to be. This is a book that transmutes plain words into language that's finer and more vivid and sometimes more rare.
from You’re probably using the wrong dictionary by James Somers
David Pennington added 6mo ago
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