Kelli

This is what trips many people up because they are only used to doing one specialized task within a business as an employee.

When you’re working, there’s so much self-loathing. Everyone feels like their stuff is awful. When I was at CalArts I was studying painting—I’m a terrible painter—but I remember there’s a stage of a painting that just looks like a mess and then all of a sudden it becomes a painting. Movies are like that too. Magically it starts to take shape. Now I

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The room holds us, but sometimes, that’s not why we stay. We actually stay because we don’t yet know how to live without its framing.

Maybe you’re on a mission to collect more grandiose moments. That’s fair. But what does a moment really mean to you? Is it a glimpse of time colliding with attention, or the awkward pause between telling a story and realizing you’ve exaggerated details no one cares about

Pushing against resistance feels meaningful, even satisfying, because it means you’re moving towards something that didn’t exist for you before. And so you reach the reward, and it’s novel and it’s different, and just for a moment it’s magic.

I guess my motto is that in the beginning you might not know why you have an affinity for something, but you should run after it anyway.

The third stage of culture in the zettabyte age, after the hipster and the nerd, is the zombie. If the hipster represents cultural taste as sorting algorithm, and the nerd represents cultural taste determined by sorting algorithm, the zombie is the point at which we stop consuming culture-commodities altogether and start directly consuming the... See more