On interesting

Cultivating a point of view, finding ideas, understanding what Interesting is.

Constraint + format = creative forward motion (inspired by Russell's On Interesting)

Ask for feedback on your attempts, not advice on your ideas.

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.

The power of pattern recognition: As I read, as I do my work, as I go about my days, the word ekphrasis continues to come up. I read it everywhere: in edits on a piece I’ve written about an artist’s documentaries, in Instagram captions, on podcasts. I’ve certainly encountered it before, probably in college, but I haven’t encountered it since—thi... See more

“When you’re working on a project, you may notice apparent coincidences appearing more often than randomness allows—almost if there is another hand guiding yours in a certain direction.” — Rick Rubin

“The process of making art is the process of becoming a person with agency, with independent thought, a producer of meaning rather than a consumer of meanings that may be at odds with your soul, your destiny, your humanity, so there’s another kind of success in becoming conscious that matters and that is up to you and nobody else and within your re

“If your world is not enchanted, you’re not paying attention.”

Alex Dobrenko • The Bucket Theory of Creativity

"Take a walk at night. Walk so slowly that the bottoms of your feet become ears." Alexandra Horowitz via Russell Davies.

"Nobody reads advertising. People read what interests them and sometimes it's an ad." — Howard Gossage via Russell Davies.

Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:

“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of b