Patricia
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Patricia
Creativity: “I can’t get new ideas staring at a blank page. Creativity, for me, requires motion. When you go on a walk, you can turn your world into an idea-generating sensorium, and ideas will spring up from the most unlikely sources. There is one thing that’s absolutely certain about creativity: It’s an active process, not a passive one. The best... See more
Ryan Hawk • Episode #464: Polina Pompliano – Profiles Of The World’s Greatest Performers, Makers vs. Managers, & Building Trust Through Consistency
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
I share this sentiment (from Cristobal Valenzuela, founder of RunwayML), on AI and creativity:
... See moreThe most significant gap in AI research and art does not lie within the models themselves but rather in the approach to art. I have noticed a tendency to oversimplify the creative act. In a research setting, the goal is to control and measure variables,
Lack of courage sabotages more people than lack of ability. Don't beat yourself before you start.
Tweets From Shane Parrish · @ShaneAParrish • Tweet
@patrick_oshag I think with so much data and algorithmic-everything, the value of hand curation will continue to increase. 1,000 movies the computer suggests are not as compelling as 1 movie from a person I trust.
I think there must be an analytical corollary to this, but I'm not yet sure what
Simon Sarrisx.comFew understand the degree of rule-breaking required, because new ideas seem much more conservative once they succeed. They seem perfectly reasonable once you're using the new model of the world they brought with them. But they didn't at the time