The Exquisite Corpse - A moodboard

do less have fun be weirder

humans aren’t good at making things from scratch. our true genius, he thinks, lies in the art of taking something and evolving it, responding to it, combining it.

Only dead fish go with the flow.

-David Ogilvy

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. — Epictetus

Collaborators might be the most powerful forcing function for me. I could never tell someone: “Hey, I know what you think I made is great, and I know we said we were going to publish in an hour, but I suddenly realize a better way to do this and I need to redo everything. It’ll only take another 2-3 weeks/months.” Shared stakes prevents a kind of b

It’s hard to write long-form essays without serious, socially-enforced deadlines. The reason my writing group (with Garrett & Yehudis) worked in October, November was because we had shared stakes. We all knew we were publishing on the 1st. Since we were linking to each other, you really can’t miss the train.