Guidance
“I have a theory that the moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. I have tried this experiment a thousand times and I have never been disappointed.
The more I look at a thing, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I want to se
... See more“A way of doing something original is by trying something so painstaking that nobody else has ever bothered with it.” – Brian Eno, via Seb Emina’s Read Me newsletter.
Painstaking Bother
If you don’t have the ocean waiting to crush you, or a puma stalking you through the forest, you have to manufacture your own sense of stakes, of generative urgency.
John Updike line, “Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”
Netflix’s ‘Cheer’ Made Monica Aldama a Star. Her Life Has Been Hell Ever Since.
