May 2013
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“A ‘boring person’ is just someone lacking the courage to be sufficiently weird...”
– Alain De Botton (via isay)
May 10th
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May 9th
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True play is experimentation.  →
A repost but worth re-watching. 
May 5th
“There will never be a good time to write. It will never be easier. If you...”
– I had a great idea… - Annie Lamott, read it.
May 1st
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April 2013
5 posts
“If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in...”
– Alec Soth on creating a career in photography, and how he pays the rent today. Read our full interview here. (via americanphoto)
Apr 30th
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“It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost...”
– Tom Waits
Apr 24th
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“The significant story possesses more awareness than the writer writing it. The...”
– Joy Williams on Why Writers Write | Brain Pickings
Apr 21st
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Apr 20th
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March 2013
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Seth's Blog: The worst feedback is indifference →
Read it
Mar 23rd
“Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months....”
– Tom Waits (via thepinesaredancing)
Mar 12th
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“You don’t just head down to the career center at your community college and fill...”
– Permission to Suck
Mar 10th
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Perform Better in Your Field by Paying Attention... →
Mar 3rd
February 2013
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Feb 28th
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Feb 20th
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January 2013
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“Craftsmanship means caring about what you create. It means you measure twice and...”
– Craftsmanship and My Father  - MacSparky
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Jan 13th
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“Laziness is the enemy of craftsmanship.”
– Finishing Is The Hard Part an essay by yours truly. 
Jan 3rd
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December 2012
5 posts
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Digging Deeper: Finding Your Creativity Through... →
by David Lynch
Dec 19th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 13th
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“He said the Navajo saw mistakes as moments in time. And since you can’t change...”
– A mistake is a moment in time by Jason Fried of 37signals
Dec 4th
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Dec 2nd
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November 2012
11 posts
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Nov 26th
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Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing
Write Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down. Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the kind of thing that this is. Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always...
Nov 23rd
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Nov 17th
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Some thoughts and musings about making things for... →
Nov 17th
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Nov 14th
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Nov 14th
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Nov 13th
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What I Mean When I Say Fuck the Fear
When I was a kid, I used to read a lot of music magazines: Cream, Rolling Stone, gossip rags, really. But there was one interview with Eric Clapton–a sentence actually–that utterly confounded me. The guitarist said that every day he woke up and wondered what he would get the blues about. Why would someone as famous as Eric Clapton actively try to find something to depress him? I couldn’t figure...
Nov 11th
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Nov 11th
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Nov 4th
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“A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next. We can try...”
– Pema Chodron, Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
Nov 3rd
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October 2012
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WatchWatch
This is me. I’m afraid to show it to you but I would be a hypocrite if I didn’t. In 1983, I competed in the International Juggler’s Association, Junior Competition. I was 15 and awkward, a sophomore in high school. I didn’t have a lot of friends but I had a passion. That summer I practiced three hours a day in my front yard, in the Texas heat, to prepare. I came in fourth and soon after...
Oct 31st
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“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing...”
– Calvin Coolidge
Oct 29th
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“A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next. We can try...”
– Pema Chödrön, Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
Oct 29th
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“I am not an asset; I am a human being. I am not a painting hung on a wall; I am...”
– Joe Eszterhas Letters of Note: I am a human being. 
Oct 25th
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Oct 21st
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Oct 21st
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“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet (via brainpickings.org)
Oct 13th
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“Greatness always comes from someone with a finely honed craft, a craft honed to...”
– Dalton Caldwell, Oh, the Places You’ll Go
Oct 13th
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“If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has...”
–  John Steinbeck
Oct 11th
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Kirby Ferguson: Embrace the remix "Copy,... →
Oct 9th
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Oct 8th
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“It Always Seems Impossible Until it’s All Done.”
– – Nelson Mandela
Oct 4th
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How to Break Through Your Creative Block: Strategies from 90 of Today’s Most Exciting Creators via brainpickings.com
Oct 2nd
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