Journal

171 entries under "thought"

Thursday, July 20, 2023

if my purpose is to feel good and help others to feel good, then…

Sunday, July 16, 2023

trying to make everything the same versus trynig to make everything different

Sunday, July 9, 2023

We might be unnecessarily framing our limitations within a common narrative around why developers struggle to find collaborators. Doing this distracts from our unfair advantage of creating connection, which has been and can be a basis for many meaningful possibilities in our life. In the same way we can try to go beyond money to focus on the underlying need, we can go beyond traditional pathways to finding collaboration to focus on connecting with people and changing their lives, trusting that this will feed into our process positively. What are ways we can cultivate these kind of bonds with friends and strangers? How can we compose experiences or solutions from our broad skillset to blow away people with life-changing magic?


Where most people use the term community, we can use connection to play into our strengths.

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

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?

Thursday, June 8, 2023

Simply live your your life 100%. Do what only you can do. Show as much magic as possible.

Monday, June 5, 2023

[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.]

Thursday, May 25, 2023

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.

Saturday, May 6, 2023

Nobody watches or notices, but what quietly accumulates through practice and experience is credibility.

Thursday, May 4, 2023

Similar to language, it might be useful to perform songs slightly under-prepared so that you can start accommodating shortcomings sooner.

Sunday, August 7, 2022

Over-assuming to connect the dots forwards: connect backwards only makes more sense—collect in the present and forage from the past.

Friday, July 15, 2022

Capoeira movements as drawing the form of their body through your movements. Maximize awareness of your self with surroundings. Maximize control (!) of your gestures.

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Prefer practices to rules.

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Take decisions and write them down.

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

[It’s hard to see how funny-shaped the box is from inside.]

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

I like people who can take pleasure in ordinary experience.

Thursday, March 10, 2022

[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.

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

[I don’t apologize.]

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

If you’re feeling intimidated, let them stretch you.

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Composition as a way to remember musical ideas by putting them in mental structures.

Monday, February 14, 2022

[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.]