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🐀🏢 I don’t ever want to work at a big company again

or How this country mouse is done with the rat race — I don’t want to sit in an expensive office or at an ergonomic desk trying to look busy between very specific hours of the day. I don’t want someone analyzing my timesheets every week, and comparing them to my salary and how much I’ve contributed to sales. I don’t want…

Business

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🐀🏢 I don’t ever want to work at a big company again

Business

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Create or be created

or how fishing parables are…limited — I get to do the easy part: giving people advice on how to be more creative. “Just do it this way,” I’ll tell them. “Think of it like a metaphor. Look at it through this lens.” 🎣 “Give a person a fish, and they’ll eat for a day. Teach a…

Creativity

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Creativity

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How To Read Game Of Thrones

or how to read George R. R. Martin’s staggering, cumbersome epic without getting traumatized by the torture, rape, incest, and murder, thwarted by the medieval language, lost in his vast, invented world of strangely named cities and surrounding geography, muddled by the epic history and mythology, confused by the excessive…

Game Of Thrones

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Game Of Thrones

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Let your ideas die

ADB-160405#173 — I had an idea and now it is gone. Fuck it. If I spent every moment lamenting lost thoughts I’d be a professional mourner, a dream widower. If you love something, let it go. Set it free. Let it die. Or whatever. Honestly, I don’t run an idea zoo here…

Creativity

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Creativity

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·1 day ago

Influence and effluent

ADB-230205#480 — Since The Creative Act was published, I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasters interview record-producer Rick Rubin. At some point, in one of the interviews, he says something like this: Success is finishing a creation and then sharing it with the world. Everything that happens after that is luck. …

Influencers

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Influencers

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Influence and effluent

ADB-230205#480

Since The Creative Act was published, I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasters interview record-producer Rick Rubin. At some point, in one of the interviews, he says something like this:

Success is finishing a creation and then sharing it with the world. Everything that happens after that is luck.

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·1 day ago

blink and you’ll miss it all

ADB-230204#479 — I just finished Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock. It is a near-future story about a massive, roguish plot to fight climate change, and the physical and political fallout that occurs (in the entertaining style of a Hollywood blockbuster). At the same time as finishing the book, near its cliff-hanger ending, something…

Mortality

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Mortality

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·2 days ago

capable

ADB-230203#478 — What you don’t understand is that before this moment I wasn’t capable of this

Poetry

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Poetry

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capable

ADB-230203#478

What you don’t understand
is that before this moment
I wasn’t capable
of this

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·2 days ago

Your Precious

ADB-230202#477 — Ideas are an infinite resource — There’s no need to be so precious about what’s ‘yours’

Ideas

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Ideas

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Your Precious

ADB-230202#477

Ideas are an infinite resource —
There’s no need to be so precious
about what’s ‘yours’

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·2 days ago

False Deadlines and Timing Tomatoes or “how i look at the snow and marvel”

ADB-230201#476 — Coming up with something to say, something to do, something to be, in a journal entry of spontaneous expressions of art, photography, technology, and self-reflection isn’t always easy. Isn’t ever easy? Will I be drawing for half the day, or trying to write the right prompt in a text-to-image algorithm…

Procrastination

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False Deadlines and Timing Tomatoes or “how i look at the snow and marvel”

Procrastination

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·6 days ago

The Doubt: A Meditation

ADB-230131#475 — The Doubt I might have changed my middle name to Doubt because some days I’m brimming with the fears that what I do will all be soon found out to be an effort far beneath my peers and yet within this confidence of drought — this self-effacing inner hall of mirrors — …

Doubt

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