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“Energy management beats time management.”
― Katherine Morgan Schafler
If you want to sell music, you must love those songs. If you want to succeed in journalism, you must love those newspapers. If you want to succeed in movies, you must love the cinema.
But this kind of love is rare nowadays. I often see record labels promote new artists for all sorts of gimmicky reasons—even labels I once trusted such as Deutsche Gr... See more
But this kind of love is rare nowadays. I often see record labels promote new artists for all sorts of gimmicky reasons—even labels I once trusted such as Deutsche Gr... See more
Creativity requires connecting the dots, and connecting the dots requires allowing time for my subconscious to consolidate my ideas and make associations. This means that, from time to time, I need to just stare out the window and do nothing.
This doesn’t feel productive, even though it is.
This doesn’t feel productive, even though it is.
Ozan Varol • You’re doing better than you think. Here’s why. - Ozan Varol
Downtime at an agency is inevitable. And a great time to look sideways and discover the types of things that will assist in the future. But when any time spent not working or booking work translates directly to lowering your earning potential, it can be hard to make that time. Especially if you insist on doing all of it during the hours your family
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To come up with new ideas, you have to have space to be messy, to procrastinate, and to let your mind wander and free-associate. But there needs to be a balance. You eventually need to channel it into something concrete, or you won’t produce anything.
Dasha Nekrasova • Jon Rafman and Dasha Nekrasova on the Horror We Call Life
I BELIEVE “WHAT EFFECT DO YOU WANT TO HAVE ON PEOPLE” IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS WE SHOULD ASK WHEN WE ARE MAKING SOMETHING.
Human curation is great, for as long as these custodians of culture aren’t completely insulated, which, no different than algorithms, results in a homogeneous culture.