Jessica

Love this from Yancey Strickler:

An artist is a self-employed self-expressor.

A creator is a self-employed commercial expressor.

During an interview following an anniversary fashion show, Ralph Lauren told me that the best advice he could give to a fellow creative is that you’ve got to find a way to be inspired by your life.

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I think about it all the time. And am really coming around to the idea that winters in New York are like a sensory deprivat... See more

When you live abroad, you experience family life in vacation-mode snapshots while everyone else lives their normal routine. Your visits home become these condensed periods of trying to catch up on months or years of daily life you've missed. It's a different kind of loss—subtle but constant.

You don’t need a vacation — you need 6 months of ambitious underemployment, of relaxed discipline, of productive exploration, of intentional meandering, ... of hard leisure.

One of the first things she has you realize is whether your business is mission-driven, product-driven, or customer-driven. It became really evident that we are mission-driven, and from there, everything started falling into place.

the creative process typically involves three steps:

1. Collecting: Gathering interesting ideas


2. Connecting: Drawing connections and organizing materials


3. Creating: Producing something new

When you are your weirdest, truest self with people and they respond to it and show you their weird true selves, they become your people. You’re bound in a different way.

Remember, the creative act is all about long term progression. The only way to improve is through the consistent completion, and release of work. So learn what you can from your current project, click publish, and then start again.

Talking about love is one of the grand traditions of being alive: what it means to fall in and out of it, how to keep it, how to grieve it, how to live for ourselves and toward another .1