Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
jakeweber.net
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
A talented person can quickly become mediocre when you force them to be someone they aren’t.
“The temptation to save something for a future piece is a signal to use it now”
- paraphrasing Annie Dillard
In the early 1900s, psychoanalytic theorists speculated that people became bored out of unfulfilled unconscious desire. Midcentury existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre, by contrast, saw boredom as a fundamental philosophical crisis, what Schopenhauer once termed "the feeling of the emptiness of life."
Could boredom be curable? - The Boston Globe
At best, what any of us can hope for with our creative work is to organize, clarify or more clearly convey the unnameable that lives within us.