Florian

I miss browsing the library shelves. Childhood, summer afternoons always seemed on the verge of melting away until saved by the fans in the library. I would close my eyes, count down random numbers while moving down the aisle, brushing my fingers along the spines of books, until they led me to the one I would take home. I flipped to random pages, j... See more

Sometimes maybe it’s best, in art and writing, to be as dumb as possible, follow the joy, because at the very least that's real. And there, you’ve taken the first step towards the truth.

Creativity arises from making new connections—contemplate unexpected things together. Don’t wait for moments of inspiration to strike. Creativity is a muscle; exercise it. There’s a logic to creativity: find what works for you, break it down, and you have a process that can serve you forever. Unstructured freedom is the enemy of true creative achie

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We grab, we collect, we possess, until we realize that possessing doesn’t actually mean owning nor internalizing

I call this media’s “drug future”: a wire to your head that drips dopamine, co-opts your mind, and steals your life.

For those of us who are not geniuses, it may be tempting to outsource some portion of our creativity to the AI, so we can get past the fact of our non-geniousness, but those barriers and climbing them is the work of creativity. The goal isn’t to become a genius. It’s to do the work.

Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.