Tejas Gawande
@tejas
Co-founder, Chronicle. Product geek.
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“Everything I do is just personal taste and it’s what [my book The Creative Act] is about. Really, for [people and artists] to trust in themselves. Make something that speaks to themselves. And hopefully someone else will like it. But you can’t second-guess your own taste for what someone else is going to like. It won’t be good. We’re not smart eno... See more
Write For Yourself
Trust your taste. Do what’s personal to you, take it as far you can go.
It's important to recognize we're in the lineage of art movements...I'm sure...you're trying to challenge yourself to invent something new. Try to be so avant-garde, that has zero [connection to the past]. That's impossible...We exist off the backs of many other things in iterations before us. So once you think about us as a collective, you then re... See more
Trung Phan • 9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh
Build on the work of a mentor (dead or alive). Odd are, these mentors did the same.
The right way is the hard way
Daniel McGinn • Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian, Innovator, Micromanager
Where are you losing by trying to save? Where are you taking the cheap path rather than embracing the expensive?
Ask yourself these questions, make the necessary change, and start falling in love with the hard way.
- I paid attention to things I liked to do, and found ways to do more of that. I made it easy for interesting people
Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
Recipe for doing the work you like
“Strategy salons” or “nerd clubs” can be powerful tools for generating ideas and fostering innovation. Use your nerd club as a safe space to explore half-formed ideas. Limit it to a few engaged individuals who genuinely want to participate. Set ground rules for discussions, like using “yes, and” to build on ideas and leaving negative feedback aside... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • Thinking like a gardener not a builder, organizing teams like slime mold, the adjacent possible, and other unconve…
Nerd club as a safe space to explore half-formed ideas
Cultivate optimistic delusion. Ref: Sam Altman
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. – Robert Hughes
In a pre-AI world, you needed to define the rules of the game you were playing—to think from first principles and apply them to your circumstances. In a post-AI world, you need to build and use models that recognize underlying patterns—patterns that can’t be reduced to simple rules.
Consider building software. Pre-AI, you needed to define exactly wh... See more
Consider building software. Pre-AI, you needed to define exactly wh... See more
Dan Shipper • Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines
Rules vs. patterns