The creative

normalize calling your corporate gig your side job and your creative projects and writing your main job. it forces you to have a different relationship with work that you do to make rent, and a more serious relationship with the work that actually feeds you.

Voice doesn’t appear fully formed—it reveals itself through use. You don’t think your way into it. You write your way there.

When you stop translating, extraordinary things happen. Your creative, social, and intellectual bandwidth expands dramatically. The cognitive load of constant performance was enormous—every conversation where you were editing rather than expressing depleted resources that could be directed toward creation, insight, genuine connection.

There should be room for societal leniency towards those who want to create and just create

This is what makes Substack different: the shelf-life of a post is looonnng. Good writing gets second chances. Dormant essays can wake up. And it’s often just one share that changes everything.

doing things without needing or wanting validation from other people makes someone interesting.

Rothko didn't paint for people who wanted realistic landscapes. Coltrane didn't compose for ears that preferred simple melodies. They created from their center outward, trusting that specificity would find its own resonance. The result wasn't exclusion but precision—work that spoke directly to the people capable of receiving it.