Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
jakeweber.net
“The best protection is always to be working on hard problems. Writing novels is hard. Reading novels isn’t. Hard means worry: if you’re not worrying that something you’re making will come out badly, or that you won’t be able to understand something you’re studying, then it isn’t hard enough. There has to be suspense”
polymathematics • Article
When something isn’t getting done, it’s because the person a) doesn’t have the time b) doesn’t have the skill or c) has some sort of psychological block. The third case is surprisingly common.
Sam Gerstenzang • Operating Well: What I Learned at Stripe
Rickenbacker 325 V59 1991, Mapleglo
cartervintage.com
John Lennon
The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami (Published 2011)
nytimes.com
The Unruly Genius of Joyce Carol Oates
newyorker.com
"Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation." - Ray Bradbury
Zen in the Art of Writing
So what’s the smallest way to have that kind of experience?
Matt Webb • Protocol Fiction, Desire, and Belief
Matt Webb asks in Protocols, Desire, and Belief in the context of creating belief and desire as illustrated by Stripes insanely simple “seven lines of code” to integrate
