help > hurt
help > hurt
if my purpose is to feel good and help others to feel good, then…
trying to make everything the same versus trynig to make everything different
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.
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?
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.
Nobody watches or notices, but what quietly accumulates through practice and experience is credibility.
Similar to language, it might be useful to perform songs slightly under-prepared so that you can start accommodating shortcomings sooner.
Over-assuming to connect the dots forwards: connect backwards only makes more sense—collect in the present and forage from the past.
Capoeira movements as drawing the form of their body through your movements. Maximize awareness of your self with surroundings. Maximize control (!) of your gestures.
Prefer practices to rules.
Take decisions and write them down.
[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.
Composition as a way to remember musical ideas by putting them in mental structures.