work & share with the garage door public
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
But the reason you’re not cool is because you’re trying to be cool.
First imitate, then intuit
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
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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The whole waiting until we get over the frictional ickiness that we have with offering something to the world or not having the perfect words for it – that was definitely a block for me. But it's just delaying the delivery of our gifts and our potential to the world. Like, you are good to go. You are ready. There won’t be a perfect moment or... See more
Alex Dobrenko • Get over your ick and do the thing
Isabel Unravaled
This is why I feel like people who are less cerebral and less aware of all of the ways in which they are imperfect, they just blast past everyone else. Because they're just doing things. And they get better so much quicker. So I think that's a message I want to give to the world. You're good to go. Just start doing things.
Isabel Unraveled
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
The big picture is hiding in the details.
Scott Adams