Lu Timlin-Broussard
@nrhtim
Lu Timlin-Broussard
This is a fantastic essay on career/life advice. Fuck following the default path just because it's there. You have the power to figure out what you actually want to do, and can take the agency to go and do it https://t.co/tKmBhYUqSq
13 Creative Commandments:
1. Talent is an important differentiator, but talent needs to put in the hours to excel.
2. Question everything. Question what is good, what is bad, why you like or don't like something. It's more important than ever in an algorithmic industry to play by your own rules.
3. Stand by the work that you make. Do not place
... See moreAnd it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns… that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn’t have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale… that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorient myself.
-Bob Dylan
The value and risk of customizing productivity tools, and the importance of focusing on output over tooling.
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There's a critical threshold there where if you can stay in flow and change something then it becomes worth doing and that's i think a huge like a person in a workshop who might modify a tool while they're building something absolutely and you know woodworkers i'm not a woodworker but i've talked to woodworkers about they call them jigs you can
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Cringe tolerance: The crucial ability for creators to overcome embarrassment and release imperfect work to achieve success.
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Cringe tolerance describes the psychological capacity to act, despite the certainty that others will judge your work as amateurish, naive, or embarrassing. It's the ability to post your first YouTube video knowing it will be awkward, to launch your website despite its obvious design flaws, to share your writing before it reaches professional
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