Useful ideas for the modern day creative
Stephen King said that he doesn't need to write down the good ideas because they just won’t go away. And similarly, good questions just won't go away. I have one such question for you. It pops into my mind with surprising regularity, and it helps see my situation more clearly.
I walked into a pole yesterday. But just like I did after I hit it, let us take a couple steps backwards and use the event to showcase something that I think more of us could seek...
Nostalgia sneaks up on you. One moment you're having a Thursday, the next your eyes are bleary, and you think of what was and what might never be again.
What if the best way is not the best way at all?
What haunts me is that I see many people who never deal with a particular idiosyncrasy and it defines their life. Not in a good way.
As technology and society march on in lockstep, new problems appear.
A rainbow. A painting. A gaze. Beauty takes many forms.
Reflections on learning more once again.
The Internet is full of luring but irrelevant information. Let's reinforce our own creative goals instead.
What do you imagine when you hear "reality"?
Our lives are much more fragmented, as a fundamental consequence of technology. One thing I have not explored yet is how that influences the artists (or creators) of the Internet.
When I think about Leonardo da Vinci, one word comes to mind: self-stimulation.
A forcing function is any task, activity or event that forces one to take action and produce a result.
Our mind is an interplay of base desires and noble goals.
We're wired for survival. But if near-term survival is close to guaranteed? What then?
Pausing is a uniquely human ability that we should exercise more.
The work of atoms is largely in the past. Now, we work with bits.
Last summer, a friend asked me if I wanted to do a 100km walk in Germany in September.
What do all greats have in common? What makes a true artist?
How mindless copying and automation are destroying the common good of social media feeds
Why do we let trivial matters take up so much of our time?
Convenience creates a subtle kind of tyranny.
Collected thoughts on the topic of environment design
Technology fragments our lives. How do we defragment them?
We're wired to seek novelty. The question is where we get it.
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Thoughts on depth of experience inspired by a 100km walk
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