Is the solo model misaligned when capacity for non-projects feels chronically impossible, yet fundamental milestones seem lightyears away? How much is a celebration of what can be accomplished by one person and how much is a failure to involve others along the way?
Tagged: succeed.
Simply live your your life 100%. Do what only you can do. Show as much magic as possible.
[Most people buy transactionally to make money or get laid, and non-transactionally to support things they like. Framing yourself as a utility lands you in the first category. People want a parasocial relationship with creators, and will pay to feel excused from not trying the creative path themselves. Doing and publishing isn't enough to land you in the second category: documenting and explaining in an artful way can become as important as what you're making. Maintaining a community implies being more active on social media.]
[Try camming.]
Earning $100 a day for 200 days in the year is $20K.
Earning $200 a day for 90 days in the year is $18K.
Earning $300 a day for 60 days in the year is $18K.
Tagged: succeed.
Nobody watches or notices, but what quietly accumulates through practice and experience is credibility.
Over-assuming to connect the dots forwards: connect backwards only makes more sense—collect in the present and forage from the past.
Tagged: relate.
Capoeira movements as drawing the form of their body through your movements. Maximize awareness of your self with surroundings. Maximize control (!) of your gestures.
Tagged: capoeira.
Prefer practices to rules.
Take decisions and write them down.
Tagged: contribute.
[It's hard to see how funny-shaped the box is from inside.]
I like people who can take pleasure in ordinary experience.
[The 'diamond model' describes expanding to generate lots of ideas without judgement, followed by the convergence towards making choices about what is pertinent.']
Information wants to be free but rent isn't.
[I don't apologize.]
If you're feeling intimidated, let them stretch you.
Tagged: relate.
Composition as a way to remember musical ideas by putting them in mental structures.
Tagged: music.
[Don't ask what's their favourite X or most important Y.]
I love you today.
[The accountant is accountable and therefore can get emotional about numbers not lining up.]
Tagged: relate.
[I love seeing someone living their extraness.]
Tagged: relate.
Writing down your thoughts requires you to observe them.
