Getting back in touch with the creative doesn't ask for long journeys, big changes, large investments, or ten thousand hours, it is done with the simplest of means in little time. Anything will do. Find something (or someone) nearby, that sparks interest and remove distance. This can be done several ways. By stepping closer. By allowing it to come

"A soft rain begins to fall and we walk on as the street closes in around us, like a bird quieting for the night. And then, there it is: the shop we call the Time Warp Toy Store. Enter and it is 1983. He-Man reigns supreme. Barbie has crimped hair and dangerously sharp shoulder pads. I pick up a puzzle, on the side of the box a stamp reads: Made in

What Context will I want to stumble upon this later?

If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.

1. Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a goo

NON NEGOTIABLES

1. Of the place

2. Less is more

3. Vibrant collaboration

4. No repeat ingredients

5. Consolidation + speed

6. Confidence + competence

7. In + out service

8. Pursuit of excellence

9. Details matter

10. Know your shit!

11. FOCUS

12. Service

13. Time

14. Not about you

15. Perfect means perfect

16. No excuses

17. Respect tradition

18. Push boundaries

19. Clean as you go

20. Break down boxes

21. Shirts perfectly pressed

22. Personal hyg

38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later.

More of our information will become written and curated by AI whose data provenance is unknown.

We heritage may be lost as pages die and never reach search indexes of language models

https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

"How to clarify a concept you can't articulate:
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1. Change mediums. Draw it. Photograph it. Sing it.
2. Change levels. Explain what is one level up (bigger picture) or one level down (finer details).
3. Change fields. What would this concept look like in different fields?"

(James Clear newsletter)

Entertainment gives you exactly what you want. But the artist doesn't operate like that. The artist makes demands on you. That's the essence of that artistic experience." - Ted Gioa.

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"it's ironic that the world always asks for everything new and original and at the same time rejects anything that does not follow common patterns or rules"

because to some people it looks like a big empty space with nothing in it, but for us, it’s a really important place filled with wildlife and lovely, wonderful communities, and we wanted to protect them.’ She’d appealed to the critical difference between ‘space’ and ‘place’ – one a malleable territory largely Irreplaceable: The fight to save our wi