Make It Yourself
Making sense of the existential dread I feel from the sudden rise of ChatGPT and resolving the conflict between affordances and the humanity of doing difficult things.
Topic: “creativity”
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Patterns: Familiar, comfortable, and meaningful
Patterns are important for creating meaning. Thoughtfully breaking patterns creates richness in writing, design, and life.
Playground for the Mind
Why you should keep a journal and how to get started.
The Practicing Artist
11 Principles for Crafting your Life as a Work of Art
The Watterson "Rules"
Four simple rules to guide your creative endeavors as drawn from the career of Bill Watterson, the creator of _Calvin and Hobbes_.
Don't Hack Your Life to Death
Instead, use these three questions to create sustainable learning systems.
On the Imperfect Start
Just get going with what you have right now.
Enlivening Your Creative Practice
Five actions you can take to get closer to mastery of your art
On Creative Practice, Part 2: Structure, Just Enough
How systems create structure, which produces habits, so you can be your most creative self.
On Creative Practice, Part 1: Overcoming Fear
Beating fear as the first step toward building a creative practice.