Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
This passage from Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From, which is discussing Darwin’s use of keeping a commonplace book (a practice I have always loved myself) as a vital part of where his most important ideas came from, just jumped off the page at me:
“The great minds of the period —Milton, Bacon, Locke were zealous believers in the
... See morediscern the vital few from the trivial many.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Premise
A premise is the specific, defensible assertion you make about your space, pulled from your personal perspective, which informs your choices and reputation.
It's something you assert is or should be true.
It's the big idea driving a project or an entire platform or brand. There's a problem. It frustrates you, but you have a specific vision
... See moreThe noted neurologist and author Oliver Sacks had this to say about originality, in his essay “Prodigies” from the book An Anthropologist on Mars: Creativity, as usually understood, entails not only a “what,” a talent, but a “who”—strong personal characteristics, a strong identity, personal sensibility, a personal style, which flow into the talent,
... See moreHaruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation: The master storyteller on writing and creativity
He once said, “You must first be the change you want to see in this World.”
James Altucher • Choose Yourself!
IMPRESSIVE STORYTELLERS
Neal Ford
I like Neal’s casual style.
He doesn’t mind saying “but” or “and” a lot, just like people do in a normal conversation. Easy to listen to.
His short video stories are great.
I learned about him first through his story, “There Is No Tiger” via Go Fast Don’t Die who made a t-shirt about that story.
Dave Chappelle
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