Warp Threads For My Life
You don’t find clarity by choosing a topic—you find it by chasing the thing that won’t leave you alone.
Topics feel like boxes — tidy, labeled, stackable.
Curiosity feels like a spark — unpredictable, alive, worth following.
I don’t start with “what to write about.”
I start with what’s tugging at me.
A sentence I can’t shake.
A question that hums under
Paying attention and listening. Looking for connections and relationships in the outside world. Searching for beauty. Seeking stories. Noticing what you find interesting, what makes you lean forward. And knowing all of this is available to use next time you sit down to work, where the raw data gets put into form.
There is no telling where that
... See moreRick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
We call it a belief system because it's more than a collection of values. It's how we see the world and what is missing.
Make stuff you use every day—it makes for a better life.
Make it better—do less if you need to.
Nothing is finished—everything can be rethought.
Think small—make one small part of the world as it should be.
Slow down—put in the time &
Being a creative means embracing the urge to put more of yourself—your identity, personality, and unique way of seeing—into the world, whether it be the way you make your breakfast in the morning or your trick for getting through your morning commute, or the themes that keep coming up among the thousands of photos in your camera roll. When we... See more
Spencer Chang • field notes on being a creative [pt. 1]
‘Wonder requires a person not to forget themselves but to feel themselves so acutely that their connectedness to every created thing comes into focus. In sacred awe, we are a part of the story.’ - CA Riley
Steph Soussloff • Tweet
There are so many more people we haven’t met yet, ideas we’ve never imagined, philosophical framings that we have yet to stumble upon. Part of our lifework is to find them. Not only through carefully planned research projects, but also by way of random discoveries—those moments we didn’t see coming, and didn’t know we were looking for.
why wandering matters
Follow curiosities down deep rabbit holes and emerge with unique ideas. Partake in vivid and varied adventures to build up a set of experiences that is unique to you. Run away from the areas in which you are average and towards those where you might be special.
Packy McCormick • Differentiation
