SIX at 6: Mundane Excellence, Comfortable Torture, a Dividing Line, the Reality of Creativity, Charlie Brown and Snoopy, and Paul Graham
Billy Oppenheimerbillyoppenheimer.com
SIX at 6: Mundane Excellence, Comfortable Torture, a Dividing Line, the Reality of Creativity, Charlie Brown and Snoopy, and Paul Graham
Themundanityofexcellence
academics.hamilton.eduJuly 2023
If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it.
Partly my goal was to create a guide that could be used by someone working in any field. But I was also curious about the shape of the intersection. And one thing this exercise sh... See more
If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it.
Partly my goal was to create a guide that could be used by someone working in any field. But I was also curious about the shape of the intersection. And one thing this exercise sh... See more
How to Do Great Work
My entire philosophy of how I organize myself as a working painter can be summed up by something George Carlin said: “Just keep movin’ straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place.”
You hear a lot in art school about how painters must continue to “grow” and “evolve”—but I think those are such bullshit words. There is gre... See more
You hear a lot in art school about how painters must continue to “grow” and “evolve”—but I think those are such bullshit words. There is gre... See more