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An inspiration engine for ideas
Artistic identity, the difficulty of staying true to yourself while allowing evolution, reinvention, and avoiding self-made prisons.
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It's funny, I think there are two steps or two levels to it. Being you is one of the hardest things ever. But then I find there's something that people often don't speak about enough and that is being comfortable allowing you to change is the second hardest thing.
Being comfortable allowing you to change so so like when you're an artist when you're
... See moreone of my psychology professor’s greatest hits: the closer someone is to you, the more you treat them as you treat yourself. it’s as though they eventually enter the sphere of your inner world.
we have to stop being cruel to ourselves or we will be cruel to others, in time. i don’t make the rules and i don’t obey them... See more
girlsubstack.com
On the occasion of the luminary Audre Lorde’s birthday, read excerpts of dialogue from the documentary film, “A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde” (Third World Newsreel, 1995), by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson, featuring the voices of Lorde, Sonia Sanchez, Sapphire, and others from our Summer 1996 issue. The reflections... See more
bombmaginstagram.com
One reason working with ideas is difficult is that not many people know what an idea is - even if they use the word every day.
Another reason is that there are so many competing types of idea.
When it comes to advertising and brands, there are at least these kinds of ideas. And it makes... See more
Mark Pollardsubstack.com
Why most popular writing advice is shallow copywriting, overlooking literary craft, diversity of style, and true mastery.
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It's almost like a joke in that way. You know, you need there to be some surprise for it to feel fresh. And then for me personally, I like hugely care about just the quality of the words. And that's hard to be too prescriptive about, I think, because I more or less disagree with a lot of writing advice.
And so I don't know if you can really put a
... See moreSomeone needs to have the point of view and the audacity to communicate it, over and over, for a long time. That’s what other people will be attracted to. The magic is you.