Molly Simpson
@spagmol
thinker, feeler, third-wheeler
collecting dots here, connecting them there ￬
Molly Simpson
spagmol.substack.com
It’s rare that we are told that it’s okay to fall short, that we actually need to fall short in order to ground ourselves in the world and really appreciate the highs when they do happen. But with karaoke, we can tangibly experience that life lesson. When we are rooting for someone on stage singing a Celine Dion song, and when they sing every note... See more
A Philosophy of Karaoke | The On Being Project
What kinds of advantages do you have as a brand? (Personal or intellectual)
Social = cool by association (signals you are part of a group)
Technical = performance (helps you do something you couldn’t do before)
Experience = a story that people can aspire to (something they can come back to)
Art, AI, and the Courage to Create
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There are two kinds of writing; alive writing and dead writing. Alive writing invokes sensuousness, expansion, and insight. It transforms and enlarges its reader. It is a kind of disclosure; simultaneously immanent and transcendent. Dead writing is passive, sentimental and afraid of telling the truth. It discloses nothing except its own performance. The sentimentality is a front rather than a risk taken. Alive writing is a process wherein you forget it's even writing. Dead writing is a product that is too self conscious for its own good. It is an outcome of not being honest with yourself. It respects neither writer nor reader, instead it presents us with a mirage, having never truly made contact with the real.
for July workshop: maybe there’s something in this around how we often miss this vital part of the creative process because we priorise two of the stages, rather than completing the full cycle? Might not work, but it could also be a relatable feeling for people in the room.
On the first of the month, on the first of the year, a small seed is planted. It becomes very important to tend to that seed, to mark its progress as it grows and climbs. What is it they say about plants, though? You’re meant to speak kindly to them? You shouldn’t shout at your bud, or belittle its existence. You should give it sunlight, and water,
... See moreAs humans, we have a confused relationship with edges, boundaries and limitations, which can be seen as one and the same thing, unified paradoxically by their dividing potential... We seek them even when, as a psychological or relational construct, we recoil from their necessity, and will often find ourselves drawn to and entranced by the water’s... See more
