Thought provoking
“Nothing happened,” he said to me. Except everything happened, I explained to him. In a singular moment, his entire life changed. So, too, did the lives of the sixty people who now worked for him, plus their families, plus the people doing business with him. A moment of frustration and inspiration in a traffic jam had come to define his life.
Matthew Dicks • Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand
Little things don’t have big signs on them
At sixteen, Mike Nichols’s girlfriend’s parents gave him tickets to a Broadway play that turned out to redirect the course of his life. In college, a chance interaction with a cafeteria busboy led to him attending weekly improv workshops, where he soaked up practices and principles of creativity and collabo
THE CREATIVE HABIT by TWYLA THARP
Chapter 5
before you can think out of the box,
you have to start with a box
Everyone has his or her own organizational system. Mine is a box, the kind you can buy at Office Depot for transferring files.
I start every dance with a box. I write the project name on the box, and as the piece progresses I fill it up wi
... See moreSide projects as the key to the good life By Marty Bell • 31 Jul 2025
When I was 13, I created a chat room for teenagers to talk about art and photography (the tagline was, if I remember, “The future of art but we don’t give a fuck”). I think that was the first self-made project I put out into the world, and it taught me one of the most important le
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