Work and productivity
the creative ‘gestation period’ is long, but labor is short.
once the raw material is there, the process is surprisingly easier.
The opposite of communion is also useful to me. When I am with others, when I read books, when I look at Twitter—I feel like a dam filling with water, with potential energy. But it is usually not until I spend a long time alone in my head that it turns into kinetic energy.
Henrik Karlsson • On Having More Interesting Ideas
