art and creation
The thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark
Miles Johnstonx.com“My deepest insecurity is that I have these intuitions about things that I cannot explain to anyone,” Kushner told Rubin as they sat in his garden overlooking the ocean. “Sometimes I see or experience something and it makes sense to me, I fall in love, but I cannot explain why. Like when Thrive invested in Instagram or Spotify or OpenAI. I could... See more
The New World: Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream
"Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn't matter how good or how bad it is. You don't need to set the world on fire with your first try. You just need to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to produce something. There are no artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, or
... See moreSitting down to write in 2025 is its own kind of war with forces of distraction and click-to-buy shit at every turn.
Shakespeare and Jane Austen didn’t have to fight the itch to check Instagram every ten minutes while making their work.
They had oil lamps and real problems like measles or... See more
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