work & share with the garage door public
exert your taste on the world to live in a reality you’ve consciously created https://t.co/wKR6LMKBRo
Your influences are all worth sharing because they clue people in to who you are and what you do—sometimes even more than your own work…
If you fail to properly attribute work that you share, you not only rob the person who made it, you rob all the people you’ve shared it with…Attribution is all about providing context for what you’re sharing: what
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Writer David Foster Wallace said that he thought good nonfiction was a chance to “watch somebody reasonably bright but also reasonably average pay far closer attention and think at far more length about all sorts of different stuff than most of us have a chance to in our daily lives.” Amateurs fit the same bill: They’re just regular people who get
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Think of everything as work in progress and share it without the pressure of trying to make it perfect
People who read widely and attentively—and then publish the results of their reading—are also arguably performing research as a leisure activity.
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
The big picture is hiding in the details.
Scott Adams
Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them.
When I was a young teenager on tumblr, basically everyone I followed and looked up to adhered to the following archetypes:
A woman who just wanted to buy a bra and ended up becoming an expert on Edwardian corsetry (and, by extension, early 20th century sartorial techniques, the labor struggles of the English garment industry, and all kinds of... See more
A woman who just wanted to buy a bra and ended up becoming an expert on Edwardian corsetry (and, by extension, early 20th century sartorial techniques, the labor struggles of the English garment industry, and all kinds of... See more