Your Creative Life Needs More Than a Posting Schedule
How to use the internet to support a side project: join conversations, ask for feedback, and find creative input worth making time for.
Creativity
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BUILD LOG
SYSTEMS
Learn to See Your Work as Systems
The cheapest way to understand what LLMs are actually for: stop taking courses, pick one repetitive thing you do every week, and map the trail of little jobs around the part you love. Three worked examples from three very different jobs.
SYSTEMS
I Shelved a Whole Novel to Find Where My Line With AI Is
Hank Green paused three channels this week over how much he had been leaning on ChatGPT. I found my own line the expensive way, by shelving a novel I let five agents write, and it turns out code and prose sit on opposite sides of it.
BUILD LOG
From manuscript to moving characters: in a few hours, for almost nothing
The pipeline to turn your creative work into video just got short enough for a solo builder. Not because the AI got smarter. Because the right tools finally fit a weekend.
ESSAY
Rejuvenate With Moon Joy
Watching Artemis orbit the Moon with thousands of strangers online, and finding that same wonder showing up in my AI work.
Book Review: Creativity, Inc. - Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
A comprehensive guide to managing creativity in business from Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios. Essential reading for leaders and creatives.
Book Review: Creative Acts for Curious People
A transformative workbook filled with over eighty engaging exercises designed to unlock your creative potential, from Stanford's d.school.