Do you post or do you RELEASE?
Separate creation and release. When you’ve finished a work, wait a while before you release it to the world. By then, you’re on to something new. The public comments won’t affect you, since they will be about your past work.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
“I know a lot of people who make things who don’t stand proudly by their stuff, I don’t know if they’re too cool or they don’t want to look thirsty, but they’ll put a song out once on their stories — and that’s it.
You went through something. You figured something out in a structured format. You recorded it. Not just one take. Parts and parts.
“I know a lot of people who make things who don’t stand proudly by their stuff,” Tyler says. “I don’t know if they’re too cool or they don’t want to look thirsty, but they’ll put a song out once on their stories — and that’s it.... See more
"You went through something. You figured something out in a structured format. You recorded it. Not just one take. Parts
Rethinking the unbearable weight of self-promotion
I am so, deeply, truly uninterested in reaction (which is why I don’t read the comments on my public Instagram account). But I am so curious about response: the mysterious sacred moments when we are compelled into action (often unwitnessed by others) or invited into new ways of thinking.
It’s the difference between seeing a painting through a galler... See more
It’s the difference between seeing a painting through a galler... See more