Writing ideas
Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations
To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with what everyone else is doing.
You are your audience - Create work that satisfies your own desires and interests rather than trying to please an imagined mass audience.
Small is more rewarding than big -
The addictive connection with AI
At the heart of agency lies a willingness to question defaults. To be agentic, you have to treat “how things are supposed to be done” as just one option among many.
Question the defaults
High Agency marriage
My theory why quality is so rare is that it is rare to have people care for their work or allowed to care for their work.
The culture shifted from people doing their craft to fastest way to check the checkbox
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To build quality takes care
Said differently, we try to measure what we value.
But we inevitably end up valuing what we measure.
But we inevitably end up valuing what we measure.
don't start to look towards each other with gratitude anymore and if we don't look towards each other with gratitude how are we going to look towards our
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work with gratitude because there are people embedded in my work there are mentors and like peers embedded in my
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work who some would suggest that I'm in competition with and and so how can... See more
37:21
work with gratitude because there are people embedded in my work there are mentors and like peers embedded in my
37:28
work who some would suggest that I'm in competition with and and so how can... See more