Creativity
Fight Your Inner Critic With… Humility
The creative paradox is having to both consider the audience we make things for and also not think about them too much. Humility is how we resolve it.
Creativity
Creativity
The Creative Paradox—4 phases of enjoying the act of creating
When I create, I feel both incredibly alive and seriously at risk. That’s the creative paradox: the enjoyment and risk present at every layer of creating.
Human nature
Judging a movie by its book is like judging kids by their parents
It’s simply not fair to either side “Movies aren’t as good as books.” Might as well say: “Kids aren’t as good as their parents.” That one comes from the other doesn’t justify judging both on the same scale. As media, books and movies are as different
Communication
“Have I anything to say that hasn’t been said?”
A story about how I became free of this question It’s also a story of how one of the most powerful things anyone ever said to me came out of my mouth. It was a piece of advice I gave a friend, except I’m the one who’s
Human nature
I want my (unborn) kids to create, not just consume.
Here’s why — and my ideas for how. I taught myself to code as a kid. It was only in QBasic (this was in the late 90s and although Windows existed, MS-DOS and floppy disks were still a thing), but it was an amazing experience nonetheless. I’d been lucky