the start of an idea
starting well, the beginning of a project, that kind of stuff
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the start of an idea
It also aligned the computer with something that is often inspiring to many people and artists: nature. If I can find the sublime in microchips and SD cards in the same way that I find the sublime in mountains and waterfalls, I begin to look at my computer not as a tool but as a landscape. And when I look at it as a landscape it feels good because... See more
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Making things is hard and I feel like that’s the most useful thing to say about it. You have to try to be consistent, you have to practice constantly, you have to read, and you can’t make yourself be interested in topics you aren’t interested in. And you have to accept that it’s always going to be challenging. My friend said this about her work,... See more
Ava • Making Things Is Hard
the middle of things, not the beginning
“I knew I was getting somewhere when I began losing interest in the beginnings and the ends of things.”
-Sarah Manguso
"In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts."
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Ppl usually don’t know what they want until someone shows them or until theI encounter it in the world for the very first time. That's why the greatest role of an entrepreneur is shaper of desires. 💯
More generally, it’s not beginnings and ends that count, but middles. Things and thoughts advance or grow out from the middle, and that’s where you have to get to work, that’s where everything unfolds.
– Gilles Deleuze, On Leibniz
