Tejas Gawande
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Co-founder, Chronicle. Product geek.
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Previous eras of creativity have mostly looked a bit like sculpting. A sculptor takes a block of material and carves it, slowly but surely, into shape. Nothing happens without her hand. Even when an assistant is involved, the sculptor pores over the project, because their human input is important at every point of the process. So too with writing, ... See more
Capability Blindness and the Future of Creativity
The age of AI: We used to be sculptors. We're all about to be gardeners.
Natural aptitude x Deep interest
Once again I was struck by one of the miracles of the cognitive process—that the act of writing will summon from the buried past exactly what we need exactly when we need it. Memory and intuition and chance associations will always generate a certain percentage of what any writer writes. The remainder is generated by reason.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
Companionship content is the most durable in its closeness to human experience, to being around people . When we search for a YouTube video to watch, we often want the best companion for the next hour and not the most entertaining content.
- While short-form content edits are meant to be spectacular and attention-grabbing, long-form content tends to b
Anu Atluru • Companionship Content is King
Companionship content is more human. It is like being in a long, stimulating conversation with a group of friends.
Companionship content is long-form content that can be consumed passively — allowing the consumer to be incompletely attentive, and providing a sense of relaxation, comfort, and community.
Companionship content isn’t consumed just for information or entertainment, but as a proxy for having company around, a way to mitigate the awareness of lacking it, or to make an otherwise dull task enjoyable — with a companion.
In a pre-AI world, whether you were building software or teams, or writing books or marketing plans, you needed to strip the problems you were facing down to their bare elements—their essence—and work your way forward from there. In building software, you need to define your core user and the problem you want to solve; in writing books, you need a ... See more
Dan Shipper • Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines
Essences vs. sequences
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.
Great ideas take time
“Inspiration comes on the twenty-fifth attempt, not the first. If you want to make something excellent, don’t wait for a brilliant idea to strike. Create twenty-five of what you need and one will be great. Inspiration reveals itself after you get the average ideas out of the way, not before you take the first step.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On the source of inspiration, the bond between love and grief, and the power of hope
Ideas take time