Inspiration
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Klout is one of the worst ideas ever put online. Klout annoys me for the same reason that search engine optimization annoys me: It’s an enormous amount of effort designed to game an arbitrary and often-changing system. Imagine if all that time went into actually making interesting things, or caring […]
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And that’s what we should be doing. Not worrying about changing the product. The price, the quality, the size, the shape, the name, the distribution. Not changing the facts. But changing the direction they’re viewed from. Bernbach, McCabe, Ally, Wells, Lois, Saatchi, and Webster knew that. And Shakespeare knew that, […]
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Because there’s nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that’s what’s most precious… You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But […]
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From Susan Cain’s The Rise of the New Groupthink: – Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption. And the most spectacularly creative people in many fields are often introverted… – Conversely, brainstorming sessions are one of the worst possible ways to stimulate […]
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From what may be my favorite piece of writing from DFW: The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. – David Foster […]