David Pennington
@davidpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
It’s not the number of hours on the job, but the number of jobs stuffed into those hours….
security can evaporate the moment we stop believing in it.
Kening Zhu • feeling safe in creative work & business — kening zhu
Chuck Arnoldi | Unintentional Artistry: A Surprising Journey
youtube.com“To make art, you have to have just as much doubt as you do confidence.”
What would happen if you did a Zoom call with the people who follow your work? Or if you planned a small dinner with other creative people in your orbit? Say we use the internet as a tool to make the plans, and then we close the laptop and build with the handful of people in front of us - then what? What could we do that we’re avoiding because we’r
... See moreThis is all, unfortunately, a microcosm of the problems we face. We’re up against a system that views and treats hyper short-term profits as more important than our collective future. We’re up against corporations and ways of doing business that would ignite the planet before letting their profits fall – and that’s exactly what they’re doing. We, t... See more
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Roland Allen’s The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper . Allen points out that “people often start diaries in times of upheaval,”
Austin Kleon • Against prognosticating
Two years later, I’m still asked about them. People want to know: Did they stay on the Luddite path? Or were they dragged back into the tech abyss?
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Buying used books is the absolute antithesis of the subscription model that is destroying everything I love.
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It’s ok to wait, and it’s definitely ok to de-wheel from the hamsterism of today’s productivity theatre. In fact, you might need to if you really want to dream up a monster story.