Creative advice

I attempt to think as little as possible."

Everything about the book is mortifying, and it totally set me free.

Picture the benefits of achieving a goal; contrast that image with the main obstacle; and devise a tactic to overcome it.

“We're in crisis, i wonder what we could do? Definitely not something new, let's try the old thing harder!”

dull not to

You aren't a static thing. You change a lot over time. For me it's been really important to say 'show up for the person you are that day'.

I remember telling my grandmother about our isolation, and she said, “Have regular parties at your house.” She told me what to do, and we did it, and she was right. God, I owe a lot to my grandmother.

“So maybe my wish for you is not that Harvard becomes the last thing people know about you, but instead that Harvard becomes the least important thing people know about you.”

“Can it not perhaps give you more joy remaining a hobby?”

“A better question for any creative person is: what activities do you want to pursue? What kinds of understanding will that create?”

“I wanna make beautiful things even if nobody cares”

I made it. I watched the edit, I made sure it was great. But the data is not my job. The data trap, in my opinion, can suppress creativity.

“The slowness was not a tax on the real work; the slowness was the real work. It was how the work got good.”

Step 1) Become obsessed with a meaningful goal.

I wake up and I don't touch the internet.

engineered for convenience, compulsion and stimulation, not for nourishment.

Why, how, and when weird wins - and what you can practically do as an agency, brand or just human to win weird too.

Anything that relieves something of its ordinariness is magic.

Hope is a practice. It means that you commit to act on behalf of the things you love, regardless of the probability of success.

“I think that extra labor is more of a gift; it’s the extra essence behind it.”

“Objects do reveal what we believe in ... but they reveal systems and power also.”