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We are all imposters
Adulthood is basically just waking up and doing one’s best impersonation of a “grown-up.”
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Everything comes with an expiration date… even ideas
There’s a reason most novels, business startups, and innovative creative ventures suffer quiet deaths of abandonment.
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Anecdotal evidence matters more than you think…
In a world awash with “big data,” should a lack of objective measurements render individual observations irrelevant?
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The opposite of a good idea…
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What stories have you invented for yourself?
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What creativity can teach us about moving forward
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Drinking, conspiracies and social media
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Free speech, fair weather values, and productive procrastination
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Sports subsidies, the 'new right' and the idea of happiness
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Distraction is necessary for creativity
A little divergent sidetracking now and again might be every bit as important to the creative process as actually doing the bloody work.
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Incuriosity in the age of ‘AI’
AI isn’t the problem. The utter lack of curiosity among the people using it is the real worry.
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From the archives: F-ck the whole business
Profanity isn’t merely ornamental. It instead serves an incalculably important role in our self-expression…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for a creative dystopia
There’s an apocalypse coming for the creative world, and it’s being brought to us by the uninspiring mind of Mark Zuckerberg.
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Professional freaks, and the worlds they ruin
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”
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From the archives: Punk Rock Politics
Nothing makes me feel more punk rock than the utter rage I feel each year while being bullied by bureaucratic revenuers for an ever-larger slice of my…
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‘And then’ is no way to tell a story
We should think about what we need to do to make our goals become a natural consequence of our daily actions.
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