Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
jakeweber.net
/// 100 QUESTIONS /// to gain clarity via Alex Morris:
Why are we doing this?
Ask that of yourself and the team with regularity.
What’s the simplest explanation?
What reaction should all the creative achieve?
What’s your most controversial opinion?
What little frictions exist that might bleed out the work if allowed to compound?
Are you solving a
work and
many people, including this person, carry the attitudes and habits they pick up at their first job around for quite a long time
Culture matters
"If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that." - Stephen King
Questions like “what are you compulsive about?” can sometimes reveal the other person’s elephant. Or: “Where have you experienced a moment of ignition, when you saw some older person doing an activity and you intuited that they were wired the same way you were, and you said to yourself ‘I want to be that’?” Or: “How would your spouse/sibling/parent... See more
Graham Duncan Blog • What’s going on here, with this human?
"Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation." - Ray Bradbury
Zen in the Art of Writing
I try to conduct references with an eye to quirky forms of excellence.