Craft

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

— André Gide, 1925

curation is the gateway drug from consumption into creation

David Lynch: “Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”

"Ask yourself what other people seem weirdly bad at" really like this framing of talent by @sashachapin ! https://t.co/l3RFnovRs3

fast forward a year from now. your life is the best it's ever been, entirely as a result of your own choices. what choices did you make now and in the coming months that created that reality for you?

Find a way to connect every project to something much bigger: a higher order value, a truth, a courageous goal, or a larger question. Then, if your efforts start to lag or feel mundane, return to that larger ideal that inspired you in the first place. It works.

It's tempting, sometimes, to idealize the trope of the "lazy genius." I decline to do so. There is a great deal of tedious maintenance work someone needs to do to keep the world running, and an inability to consistently do so is not praiseworthy. Some smart, low-conscientiousness people manage to flourish without discipline, making careers out o... See more