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• The smell, the smell
• The paradox of loneliness
• Outside the training data
• The book look
• To the moon
• Too content for content
• Into the sinkhole
• Expecting the least expected
• Virtually experienced, hardly seen
• Rightsizing life
• The visionary compass
• A catalog of emotions
• Together as spiritual completeness
• Under the trained eye
• A mind run riot
• Inseparable opposites
• The spotlight of attention
• In the spell of imagination
• Writing takes guts
• Memes are a hurricane of influence
• The bright rush of ideas
• The invention of things
• Swallowing the elements
• Tackling the brain’s anxiety bias
• We are nobody’s establishment
• Strength through struggle
• Passion project be damned
• Hope is a hedge against reality
• The shared intimacy of the individual
• When hearts and minds realign
• The brilliance in absurdity
• Thinking things through
• Conformity as a preventative structure
• A test case of curiosity
• Raging against the machine (us)
• Purposely absorbed
• Ear players and slow bakers
• Chords of inquiry
• Flow of attention
• Double or nothing
• Never enough peace
• Let it roll
• Creativity is for the uncertain
• The role of the creator
• Divided by tribes, sprinkled into individuals
• A pace to play
• The agony of choice
• Despite all the rage
• Intent to discover
• Nothing is mappable
• The debugger break method
• Warm among ice
• Dancing into happy accidents
• The burn of discontent
• That which tints
• Collecting and craft
• The creator’s secret sauce
• A simulation of self
• The great gambling game
• The social variant
• Above the rim
• The free-acting individual
• The probable oddity
• Stripping away the camouflage
• Thinking with a helping hand
• Putting a dent in persistent novelty
• Observing closely
• Becoming pain tolerant
• Self-optimization through art
• Smacked of indecision fatigue
• Defying expectations
• Time to bear this in mind
• Stress test
• Copycat cravings
• Probing the information bubble
• For work’s sake
• The anxiety monster
• Nature’s mirror
• The peril of having it all
• Stepping into the future
• It takes the time that it takes
• Weighing the good and the bad
• The plasticity of negative types
• On the move
• Slow is uncomfortable
• Unentangled preferences
• Enjoy the silence
• The channel surfer
• Without a positive doubt
• The right problem to solve
• Connecting tiny pieces of information
• Unique in your perversity
• The shared tempo of minds
• Too unique to be a freak
• Starting the process, dancing with maintenance
• What spreads, rarely sticks
• Everything optimized
• Relaxed while working
• The corrosive side of ambition
• Known and strange things
• A vocation of old and new
• Stop making new mistakes
• Evolutionary parameters
• Busy living with doubt
• Predictably unpredictable
• Powering off
• Doing it our own way
• Reborn ideas
• The boss of time
• The space between our ears
• Ideas often come indirectly
• Into the unknown
• What are you to me?
• The unfinished symphony
• Learn and burn
• Effort: The great harvester of attention
• Blind to blindness
• Artists are scavengers and tweakers
• Memories reconstructed
• Uniqueness is the happiness connection
• Upstaged by avatars
• Creativity is a game of inches
• Beyond logic, beyond greed
• Identity unknown
• Head to head
• Humans contain attitude
• The reeducation of emotion
• Brain on fire
• Tighter the brief, the deeper the craft
• The capacity to act differently
• Less is best
• Working backward
• The critics
• Quieter times
• The number of combinations
• Aging with energy
• Adventure by design
• No preferences
• The all-important gaze
• Where comparison fails
• Throwing a rock into a hard place
• Crafting confidence
• Never mind the mood
• Imagining life without work
• Through the wire
• Be wary of advice
• No-makeup makeup
• J.K. Rowling revisits her masterpiece
• The art of delay
• The pointlessness of constant self-grading
• Facing opposites
• Beware the mind virus
• Creativity is a fancy version of productivity
• We make great trends
• The business of living
• If you’re struggling to get started, do it badly
• Dealing with everydayness
• More than a job
• Don’t adopt other people’s anxiety
• Avoiding the losses
• Collisions of thought
• From seeing to believing
• The becoming
• Information is the sum of parts
• Foxes and hedgehogs
• A panoply of tools
• 2020: Living in the hyper-extended present
• Feelings of destabilization
• The archaeological dig of the self
• The streak goes on
• How to doubt your fears
• A celebration of difference
• Nobody strange
• Creativity: Faith in process, faith in rest
• Streaks
• Zooming out to see in
• How to stem the fright
• Evolution is all chance variation and luck
• Creativity as existence
• Bottled and unbranded
• Thinker types: Contrarian versus the individual
• Pear is ripe
• Assume everything and nothing
• Into the vortex of interestingness
• Numb to continual uncertainty
• Nothing is random
• Dancing with the algorithms
• Awareness makes all the difference
• Came, saw, and self-conquered
• The vast but empty spaces of Andreas Gursky
• Life as protest
• Ignoring the inner-critic
• Close-meshed holes
• Gagging on the dizziness of freedom
• Writing through sheets of ice
• Back to black
• The art of doing nothing
• Walking in circles
• The gift of raw emotion
• Thoughts are seeds
• What comes next
• Our fragile, famous lives
• How the mind designs itself
• The chorus of arrival
• Creativity lies within
• The road to becoming a mentality monster
• Turning problems into opportunities
• Positive thinking can make one feel worse
• Mind over matter, what’s the matter with your mind?
• It’s the indecision that’s risky
• The power of choice
• Underseen, often overlooked
• The Olivetti Valentine typewriter
• What are we missing here?
• Notebooks are ‘a forgotten account with accumulated interest’
• Write to be misunderstood?
• Why simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
• Why you should schedule nothing (sometimes) 
• The trick to staying motivated
• Lost in translation
• “Creativity is like breathing”
• Make culture, don’t just consume it
• The structured procrastination strategy
• Navigating tension
• In search of novelty
• The magic double-consciousness
• A barometer of aliveness
• Let go to grow
• To be nobody’s establishment
• How to mirror the beat of our heart
• The geometry of thought
• The hunt for lost desires
• Creating a life of constant surprises
• How we decode reality
• One too many chips
• Mental clarity begins in cleaning out the basement
• Discoveries are meant to be shared
• Doing honest work
• Trust the routine
• What unlocks you?
• From your mouth
• The paradox of proximity
• This Japanese philosophy may hold the secret to a happy work life
• The script, the story
• Don’t hold that thought 💬✒️
• Reexamining the Kiss Principle
• Are we still alive?
• It’s never too late to do something incredible
• A wave of inspiration 
• Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage”
• Trying too hard to be happy
• ‘Good work only comes through revision’
• ‘The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it’
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
• Floating into thin air
• Quick hits pervert happiness
• Searching for the ‘right’ fix
• We can redesign our brain
• Thinking is hard
• Doing more begets more productivity
• Guilted into trying
• More than just a pipe dream
• Chaos and structure
• The flaws of forecasting
• Still ignorant, not stupid
• ‘The writer feeds his book’
• Thinking less to do more
• How to turn a handicap into an advantage
• Anomalies wanted
• Everything is sampled, including our DNA
• My now is your now 
• What your thoughts look like
• Inspiration is a myth
• Why Leonardo da Vinci wrote backward
• Doing something is better than doing nothing
• Open to detours
• Starry-eyed surprise
• Seeking ignorance amid uncertainty
• The student never graduates
• Finding aim through purpose
• Writing is a wrestling of words
• Life is a pendulum of experiences
• How to survive a plunge from a waterfall
• A medium and its message
• ‘She ignored whatever did not interest her’
• This is your last notice to…notice
• Work x “Work”
• Making meaning removes meaning
• Unoriginal and creative
• In pursuit of the right stuff
• Running to safety
• Abraham Lincoln on writing
• ‘I wish I’d spent more time on…’ and ‘I wish I’d spent less time on…’
• A retrospective report
• Imagination is a mental scratch pad
• Building a prototype
• Mechanical paper tech by Kelli Anderson
• Relishing the doubt
• All writing is in the edit
• More time is better than more money 💸
• Keep them guessing
• Searching for context
• Art constitutes thought’s core
• Get it together
• Writing helps you seek clarity
• Brian Eno: ‘Try not to get a job’
• Seeing the forest for the trees
• Take what you’ve done and throw it away
• Haruki Murakami: ‘I run in order to acquire a void’
• Rewind, reset, refresh
• It’s a hard-knock life
• Refusing technology
• Clear now, confused tomorrow
• Camera obscura
• Henry Miller on why we create
• The flexible tattoo
• Truth, discarded
• The perfect life is non-existent
• Why not play all the notes at once?
• Steve Hely: ‘Writing a novel is a pain in the ass’
• The plasticity of consciousness
• How to set up a blog on WordPress Business
• Crazy, that
• A curious rebel
• Do different to get different
• The revolt of you
• Want to focus? Seek ambient sound
• ‘I’d rather have average art and survival’
• Searching for the life spark
• The loose gate of attention
• The paradox of messiness
• How to make better decisions
• The hidden power of music
• The two essential phases in the creative process
• There is a time for everything
• Wants and needs
• Face the facts
• The pursuit of clearer signals
• Who will curate the curators?
• The flashes of the arts
• All talk is self-talk
• The promise of internet niches
• The young/old dynamic
• ‘How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives’
• Doubting our own self-doubt
• A sober risk to deny reality
• Mary Oliver: The poem gets written
• Alain de Botton: When the work begins
• A blink off script
• Nature doesn’t care
• Pablo Picasso on the importance of solitude in doing serious work
• The only reassurance you need
• What matters isn’t always popular
• How Japan uses blue LED light panels on station platforms to prevent suicides
• Everything goes in the queue
• Fuel for thought
• Ta-Nehisi Coates: made for the library, not the classroom
• ‘We must be ignorant of what we are looking for…’
• Alain de Botton — A School of Life for Atheists
• Jack London: Keep a notebook
• A coherent me
• ‘A dragon day is a day when you refill your creative well’
• Idleness is technology’s life-force
• Ray Bradbury: What writing teaches us
• Robert Frank, photo poetry
• Joyce Carol Oates: On writing when you’re exhausted
• RIP Photographer Robert Frank, the “Manet of the new photography”
• Samuel Beckett: ‘My mistakes are my life’
• Manufacturing luck
• Out of control
• The trick is not becoming a writer
• Growing one block of reality at a time
• Resisting the influence
• We used to pick up the phone
• Losing our edge
• Fighting inertia
• How jumping reveals the real person
• Why writers feel like they do nothing
• Eureka moments are a myth 💡
• A plastic brain shaped by the path
• Begin with a bookshelf
• Active by default
• Airing out the ego
• Where it sings
• Pets feature in ‘Say no to tear gas’ protests in Hong Kong
• Intimacy in the midst of indifference
• Material to hone
• The world is colossal
• The value of pushy mothers
• How to prevent grit from becoming the grind
• Speaking through pixels
• Embroidering reality: the photographs of artist Julie Cockburn
• Tying together the world’s attention triggers
• Create your own luck
• De-essentalizing the response
• Bending meaning with Max Ernst
• Tech this out
• The link between boredom and creativity
• Tips for boosting your memory and brain power
• The philosophical zombie
• Play by keeping score
• A mirror on information
• Taste at first sight 👁👀👁
• Medicating off the placebo
• “Stare at the world, not at your model.”
• TED Talk: Tim Ferriss ‘Fear-setting’
• Devouring optical information
• A still inchoate creator
• The bullshit detector
• You can be anything you want and then some
• The clock is always boss
• The word salt ‘was the origin of the world salary’ 💰
• Living with the unknown
• Nostalgic for bookstores
• Work first, passion second
• Solitude and leadership
• The compound effect
• About those light bulb moments
• Back of the envelope…for starters ✍️✉️
• Are video games design objects?
• Give it time to simmer
• Digging in the crates
• Ready, rock steady
• Does automation make us less human?
• Predicting the multi-screen world in 1967
• Learning to think again
• What do we read next?
• ‘Negative visualisation generates a vastly more dependable calm’
• ‘Even with an entire dictionary in one’s head, one eventually comes to the end of words’
• Admitting that you’re lost
• Writing is the best app
• Confronting reality 👀
• Hooked on artifice and spin
• Faulty attention
• Ludic loop
• Dreaming in digital
• V is for vulnerable
• Walking billboards
• The case for playing the long game
• Feeling like a failure
• Celebrate the story you tell yourself
• The fog of the present
• What imprints the outlook
• Vladimir Lagrange, photo artist
• The big picture view
• Have an exaggerated sense of curiosity
• Fleeting motivation
• Bounce back
• The artist never graduates
• ‘The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now’
• The complexity of confidence
• To doubt, to do
• Finding your escape zone
• The emotional journey of creating anything great
• Art as stimuli
• Be brave, clench fists
• Portrait of an artist / Twittering Machine by Paul Klee
• Following our external compass
• Writing all the time
• Visualizing the practice
• The strength of signal
• The best music to help you focus
• On making life’s biggest decisions
• Stan Lee offers this advice to creators
• Creativity: A way of thinking and doing
• Thinking about questions
• No harm in metaphors or similes
• Do we have to be sad to be creative?
• The malleability of it
• The World According to Garp
• Making peace with fear
• Hopelessly absorbed
• Thinking without thinking 🤔
• Seth Godin on writer’s block
• 19th-century algae prints by Anna Atkins
• “Let’s circle back.”
• Play cultivates humility
• A window through popularity
• All together, alone
• Essential writing advice from Anne Lamott
• A blank screen, an external reality
• The music in our heads
• Good at being you
• Why you should take little bets
• RIP Photographer Michael Wolf
• Hokusai’s great wave: a lesson in persistence
• All the internet’s a stage
• Surrealist art by Daniel Taylor
• Famous artists and their recipes for good luck
• Tips for artists who want to sell
• How to close the gap between near and far
• Pursue the irrational mind to get what you want
• The design of the classroom from 1750 to today
• Facing the blank canvass
• Is adult playtime over?
• Faults in all places
• ‘Grab a leash and take your thoughts for a walk.’
• Ansel Adams: Photography With Intention
• Knowing when to use digital versus paper
• The journey is the reward
• Passion precedes more
• 15th-century paintings by Antonello da Messina
• Google street view mirror selfies
• Norman Rockwell’s Golden Rule
• What does it mean to be me?
• Werner Herzog talks filmmaking, Pokemon Go, and how to manage our online life
• A museum of self
• Fifteen minutes for eternity
• Everything starts on paper 
• How status and likability affect your health 
• Nassim Taleb: ‘The best way to verify that you are alive is by checking if you like variations.’
• Kitt Bennett’s pavement murals
• ‘Intelligence is the ability to find relevant material in memory..’
• How technology impacts the way people write
• Progress is a mindset 
• The blurry black hole photo
• A barometer for inspiration
• Grammarly Review: a free writing and proofreading app
• Imaginary insects inspired by Star Wars
• Make art regardless of fame
• Triggering and cementing habits
• John Berger: ‘If I’m a storyteller it’s because I listen’
• Are you an egg person or an onion person?
• Stuck in our own heads — is that such a bad thing?
• The thrill of online publishing
• How to practice effectively
• James Joyce: ‘Every life is in many days, day after day.’
• ‘Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place’
• Filters of mind
• How to unthink
• Give yourself permission to build 
• Adding to the pile
• Flashes of intuition
• ‘The test of a book is how much good stuff you can throw away’
• Paint is colored glue
• Coles Phillips “fade-away” technique
• The remix artist Maira Kalman
• Write a memoir to make sense of your life
• A day of two halves
• You can’t schedule joy
• ‘Life is a movie; death is a photograph’
• Why we ship
• Make even more art
• Neil Gaiman’s MasterClass: Learn the art of storytelling
• The study of parts
• To dare is to blog
• Seen but diluted
• Pursuing boredom for boredom’s sake
• ‘Time is to clock as mind is to brain’ 🕰️
• The dopamine surge
• ‘Everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance’
• ‘We are told stories as children to help us bridge the abyss between waking and sleeping’
• Accept compliments but do not inhale
• How design dictates behavior
• What are your escape zones?
• In search of a writing process
• Balancing effort
• Crossing a telephone with a TV set
• Thinking through the repetition
• Endless spin
• Debugging the messy days
• Grounded by the glare
• The evolution of you
• Time to get up!
• A test of aliveness
• Art never sleeps
• ‘Don’t do things that you know are morally wrong’
• On keeping notebooks
• Unleash the amateur
• One never stops blogging
• Thinking in the cracks
• ‘Never quit something with great long-term potential’
• How to keep the good, going
• Between convention and originality, Vivian Maier’s color work
• Ambiverts are the most skilled attuners
• Disattention is the new attention
• Filling the mental well
• Anticipatory senses
• The strangeness of ordinary people
• Why you should build your own blog
• Aggregating sources
• Creativity is a passport to freedom
• Springing up in the heart
• Evaluating self-growth
• Imprisoned in time
• Type animations by Federico Leggio
• Make the leap
• Experiment with your life
• Consuming valueless info
• Act before you think
• Notice the light inside
• The listener relationship
• Why change is uncomfortable
• What introverts do at parties
• The telescope of attention
• Against playacting
• In a state, trying every space
• Andy Warhol appears in the weirdest Super Bowl commercial ever
• ‘Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious’
• Reset the mind, fulfill your day
• Know thyself
• Constraint is freedom
• In the search of greatness
• Home is work. Work is home.
• How to speak and write correctly
• Thinking in fragments
• Typewriter for music
• The self that signals
• Compartments of personality
• Be good at two things
• We need the prodding
• No hard feelings: Embracing emotions at work
• Revolutionizing tomorrow
• At a crossroads
• A simple way to set your focus for the day
• Variables of reason
• Choose something and act on it
• Faith can move mountains
• Paper for permanency
• Ursula K. Le Guin’s writing habits
• Art as psychoanalysis
• Placebos: the lies we make true
• Prescribing a walk in nature
• ‘The enemy is our chattering brain’
• Aiming for the start
• Integrative thinking, a definition
• Life means spontaneity
• Craving light
• The sound of the future
• The mind is a kite
• The Beatles never look up
• Prime the pump of knowlege
• Philosophy lacks an answer
• The missing ingredient
• ‘Toys are preludes to serious ideas’
• Looking for aim and purpose
• ‘Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence’
• What does it mean to do work?
• The biggest productivity tip of 2019
• The struggle is reassuring
• Turning heads in the sand
• Guided by the dream
• How to appear completely
• Beyond the inner roommate
• RIP Evelyn Berezin, creator of the first word processor
• Who-What-Where-Why
• Spill the words
• A merry experience
• “Build it and they will come” only works in the movies.
• The great escape
• Hearts manipulated at scale
• The power of self-reflection
• ‘Don’t water down your natural style’
• The ‘perfect’ writing room
• ‘All human activity is prompted by desire’
• Penguins turn to a life of crime
• ‘In the future, everyone will want to be anonymous for fifteen minutes’
• Why people deny the facts
• The growing block theory of time
• Illustrations by James Firnhaber
• A big believer in boredom
• Anthony Bourdain’s tip for aspiring travelers
• Against running with headphones
• Intensely watched, intensely remembered
• Choosing to walk
• Know Yourself prompt cards from The School of Life
• Leave the phone behind
• Humans are noticing machines
• Walking is like sex
• ‘To experience an event, we must live through and remember it’
• Retrofuturistic art by Simon Stålenhag
• Punching back against nihilism
• Peculiar Pyongyang
• Wes Anderson vehicles
• ‘Paper’s seclusion from the Web is an emerging strength’
• Inconvenient truths
• Cultivating disparate views
• ‘We do not grow absolutely, chronologically’
• Do you want to drive the car or polish it?
• You wield the paintbrush
• Half bots, half real people
• The important stuff is the ordinary stuff
• Tethered to distraction
• Hardly looking
• Hopium
• Take the information you need and throw it away
• The checklist of normal
• ‘The more we know the less certain we are’
• Live to work and work to live
• The language of art
• Relic of the past
• Regression in time
• Paper = slow food for thought
• The adult impulse
• Textbook wisdom
• ‘The hippocampus’s main criterion for storage is repetition’
• Cultural differences between East vs West, illustrated
• ‘Chaos always defeats order’
• Avoid the suck
• When in doubt…
• Explain it to me
• Headphone privacy
• ‘Genius hits a target that no one else can see’
• Pixel art paintings by Octavi Navarro
• The mind’s sense-door
• A happy job
• Story unbridled
• No one is normal
• America, the paperback version 🔖
• Watch the trailer for Alex Honnold’s Free Solo
• Do heart-work
• Collecting references
• ‘Propped’ by painter Jenny Saville
• ‘I came to painting to hang my ideas on a nail’
• Cold water courage
• Coping with ‘the colossal volume of memories’
• Dreaming from above
• A guide to art
• Wear Space is a cubicle for your face
• Embrace the void
• Take The Ball, Pass The Ball: trailer for documentary on Barcelona’s Guardiola years
• Genius is a balancing act
• Maria Popova talks about writing for herself, creativity, and more on the Tim Ferriss Podcast
• ‘Paint is the only weapon I have with which to fight what I resent’
• ‘His retina is beleaguered with images’
• Self-scrutiny is the thief of joy
• ‘Be the bamboo tree which bends toward the wind’
• Leonardo’s strange faces
• Banksy’s self-destructing painting 🎈
• Angels with dirty faces
• Writing with a pencil
• A giant bookshop that never shuts
• The most fascinating designer on the planet
• ‘Everybody wants to be somebody: Nobody wants to grow’
• On the tip of your tongue
• Distracted into interestingness
• You’ve got to play to win
• Growing nervous system in a developing zebrafish embryo
• A little bit louder now
• Hobbying for hobbies sake
• The hidden power of focusing on ONE to-do ✔️
• Hashtag heaven
• Embrace the swings
• How design controls behavior
• Success comes down to one word
• The irrationality stick
• Slow appeal 🐢
• The origin of “OK”
• Snacking on disattention
• Winning a coin toss
• Embracing uncertainty
• I weighed the prose and the cons
• ‘Mankind = manikin = mannequin’
• Gamed and uattended
• ‘Who you are depends on what your neurons are up to, moment by moment’ 🧠
• The sharing virus
• ‘I can disagree with your opinion, it turns out, but I can’t disagree with your experience’
• ‘Sometimes people say a song made them cry when they mean a song let them cry’
• The longest straight line you can walk without hitting the ocean
• Literary Coffee
• ‘Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you’
• Looking sideways
• Paintings by Congolese artist Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga
• Airbus Beluga XL 🐳👨‍✈️
• Inside the head
• ‘We have built our great and towering civilization on the wreckage of a past’
• Information resurfaced with Readwise
• From bytes to bits of reality
• Oblique Strategy: Turn it upside down
• Advertising on the Eiffel Tower (1925 – 1934)
• A tablet that bends like an ancient scroll
• Impatient with action, patient with results
• ‘Awakening is not a thing…It is not something to be attained’
• The running conversation in your head
• Books are…
• Keep your writing concise with Grammarly
• Method to the madness
• The reading brain in a digital world
• NASA’s “women computers” 🚀
• Book review bingo
• Philip Roth on naps
• Is it better to be first or a fast second? 🤔
• ‘Give yourself Permission to Suck’
• The rebel. RIP John McCain, ‘McNasty’
• Paintings by Njideka Akunyili Crosby
• Taste the rainbow, on loop
• Deceiving GPS 📍
• Sitting decreases blood flow to the brain 🧠
• Defining singularity in the mass
• How to bowl a strike 🎳
• In praise of the color gray 🌫
• ‘Genres aren’t closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time’
• Four to one
• Free the animals 🦁🐘🦓
• ‘Tip the world over on its side, and everything loose will land in Los Angeles’
• Living in porous, glass houses
• ‘Atoms really get around…’
• Jeff Bezos 1997 interview
• The bookstore that inspired JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series
• The change game
• The pigeon camera, a precursor to the drone
• How complaining affects the brain
• Voice acting with Tara Strong
• When sharing is not so self-caring
• Moving sculptures
• “Goldsmith Work” by Celsius Pictor
• Stand out of our light
• Confuse the eye
• The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries
• Raising the level of consciousness
• ‘The most effective way to do it – is to do it’
• ‘Think of drawing verbs instead of nouns’
• Third eye blind
• The importance of mind recess
• You’re better off going into the wilderness
• The simple but effective Pomodoro Technique 🍅
• Staying connected
• Twitter = High School
• Happy Bullet Journal Day!
• People pot pie 😝
• Confident in your own curiosity
• Tsundoku 📚
• The link between rainfall and the duration of Roman emperors
• ‘If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.’
• The imaginative scratchpad
• Growing is forever
• ‘There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil’
• One small change
• ‘The peak of peak attention…’
• ‘Short sleep predicts a shorter life’
• Leonardo’s To-Do List
• Human plus machine 🤖
• See it to believe it
• Looking ahead, seeing behind
• ‘To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.’
• A mind virus
• The fascinating history of the pencil ✏️
• Numb to the pleasure of patience
• Coping with the cesspool of news
• Drawing with the weak hand
• Life on infinite scroll
• The courage to believe
• The Bullet Journal: An analog system for a digital age
• How audiobooks are made
• When illusion meets reality
• A timeline of colors of Mister Rogers sweaters
• Making better decisions / Better decision making
• Malcolm Gladwell teaches writing in this new Masterclass
• ‘Summertime City’ by Kadir Nelson
• Thinking aloud in chemical synchronicity
• The relationship between the user and product in mind
• Identifying what matters
• We, the data
• ‘Don’t shy away from discomfort’
• Setting sun
• ‘If I don’t try to tell it, it risks not being told’
• Margaret Atwood teaches creative writing
• Illustrations for Amazon Prime Day
• The nothing special
• A little more audience, a little more action
• Staying edgy…
• Creativity is a form of prayer
• The telephone man
• Freedom is slowing down
• Highlight the remarkable
• Beliefs are fuel
• Leonardo da Vinci and the Codex Huygens
• ‘How very odd it was to live your life so decisively’
• How to rest and reflect in the age of speed
• Managing the amygdala, the fear center of the brain
• Underground bicycle parking systems in Japan
• Train the mind to see
• The gutless algorithm
• Crossing to safety
• Field Notes: One small step for notebooks
• Meet the Godfather of AI
• Memory is not the enemy of creativity
• We have reached peak screen
• Digital art by Manolo Gamboa Naon
• A special kind of permeable concrete system to prevent floods
• Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Jennifer Egan shares her three rules for writing
• Off the grid
• ‘Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity’
• Hoodies, cheap instant anonymizers
• The hidden power of less
• ‘The secret of theft, which is also called creativity’
• The Uncomfortable
• Write just one sentence
• Prompt cards
• Banksy in Paris
• The 2-minute exercise that could make you more successful
• Rather unique
• ‘Most runners run because they want to live life to the fullest’
• Nelder Plots
• How algorithms destroy personal taste
• Write your way to the life you want with Writers Work
• Writing by hand makes your brain wait
• Trent Reznor on musicians addressing politics
• To get lost, on purpose
• From idea to “I did it!”: Seth Godin’s ShipIt Journal
• Designing the official World Cup ball
• Think of humans ‘as a little fish out of water’
• Variations on a human theme
• Aerial view of Manhattan
• ‘Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre’
• We are a plastic society
• Brutality on canvas
• Don’t think too hard…🤔
• Both anxiety and desire ‘are tilted toward the future’
• Mexico’s WWII anti-Nazi propaganda poster
• Take action while you can
• Surreal paintings by Lithuanian artist Gediminas Pranckevičius
• Planet or Plastic?
• It’s the hope that kills
• Sabine Weiss: Observations of French life in the 1950s
• Pause to go forward
• ‘When the truth catches up with you, run’
• Earth stripped of water
• Going first is not as bad as you think
• A 3D-printed Bionic arm
• “Intentional Living” with The Bullet Journal ⚡ Method
• Anxious/Hopeful
• Time keeps on slipping into the future
• ‘The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well’
• ‘Podcasts are the audio of our time’
• ‘The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work and gave to it neither power nor time’
• ‘It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame’
• Not all those who wander are lost  ✈️ 🗺️
• ‘I think it’s important in creativity to understand the value of hesitation’
• Closeup of the heart minus fat and muscle ❤️
• Photos by Jesco Denzel
• Getting to zero time
• The magic of disengagement
• RIP Anthony Bourdain: ‘I love having my teeth kicked in by a different perspective’
• Missing the details
• Georg Scholz’s revenge creativity
• The Truman Show Delusion
• “Real journalism matters”
• The world’s most expensive coffee is 💩☕
• The unclassifiable
• Pamela Druckerman shares her tips on time management
• Stuck in our own heads
• Aiming for the opposite
• The lost desire to pick up your phone 👋📵
• ‘Life should be touched, not strangled’
• ‘I have already lost touch with a couple of the people I used to be’
• Balenciaga’s $1490 ‘T-Shirt Shirt’ is ugly but awesome
• Slow media in, Zombie scrolling out
• ‘Love is just the result of a chance encounter’
• Picasso: ‘Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them’
• Wave cinemagraphs by Ray Collins
• Technology spreads unreality
• The effect of expectation
• The sorcery of screens
• Artist Giuseppe Penone takes inspiration from the land
• Philip Roth (RIP): ‘Writing turns you into someone who’s always wrong’
• The British Museum adds Mo Salah’s boots to its collection
• Dear Sheeple, are you part of the herd?
• Why sitting is bad for you, animated
• ORCAA, a logo to certify organic algorithms
• Michael Pollan goes tripping on psychedelics for his new book
• Tom Wolfe: ‘Logos are strictly a vanity industry’
• Mark Twain: ‘We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope’
• Bill Gates on the genius of Leonardo da Vinci
• Famous artworks ‘Re-ymagined’ with the people edited out
• How to persist after hitting rock-bottom
• Humorous illustrations for improving your social media reputation
• ‘The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle’
• The new journalism, where fame is the game
• How social media fuels fantasies of the ideal self
• Tom Wolfe: ‘I’d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph’
• Turning inanimate objects (‘stuff’) into puppets
• How taking an afternoon ‘nappuccino’ increases productivity ☕💤
• The illusion of a sole genius
• ‘The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren’t special’
• The placebo effect of a good luck charm
• When sharing is forgetting
• This is what happens when you reply to spam email
• ‘To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society’
• Is flying the last escape in our constantly connected world? ✈️
• Figurative illustrations of Picasso’s work by Omar Aqil
• Abraham Lincoln: ‘All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother’
• Learning to move
• Blinded by closeness
• ‘Dreaming is like a psychological thermostat’ 🛌
• The idle doodles of JRR Tolkien
• The paradox of holding high standards
• Views of Tokyo (1913-1915)
• Too many interests, more than one skill
• The epidemic of worry
• To single-space or double-space after a period? Here’s what the science says…
• ‘No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.’
• Becoming Amazon-proof
• The miniaturization in technology
• How to avoid the comparison bubble
• This miniature ring could be the future of wearable tech 💍
• U.K. schools dismiss the traditional clock face
• Surreal murals by Croatian artist Lonac
• Slow and simple notebooks with BIG TYPEFACES
• The H(earring) project turns hearing aids into high-fashion accessories
• Book guilt
• Golden Gate City: San Francisco (1939)
• There is no perfect idea
• Alain de Botton: ‘Cynics are only idealists with awkwardly high standards’
• This hover backpack will make you jump, jump!
• Decisions are either ‘irreversible or reversible’
• ‘The greatest secret of a powerful memory is to bring information to life with your endless imagination’
• Rebecca Solnit: ‘Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible’
• Yet more evidence that standing at work is better for you than sitting
• David Shrigley’s ‘oblique comments and strange drawings’
• Go inside the apartment of graphic communicator George Lois
• The woman who never forgets…anything
• ‘Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation’
• ‘Write drunk, edit sober’
• Types of cognitive bias
• The paradox of jumping through hoops
• Beware the algorithms
• Central Park to go car-free this summer
• Creative infographics from Pop Chart Lab including a poster of every emoji
• Human brains are hardwired for rural landscapes
• Belief + Doubt = Sanity
• Lisa Ericson’s supernatural beings
• Freedom from the to-do list: ‘The Art of the Wasted Day’ by Patricia Hampl
• A plethora of unconsumed content
• Paper just works
• Van Gogh’s fascination with Japan
• Stephen King lists his top 10 favorite books of all-time
• Van Gogh: ‘These waves are claws, the boat is caught in them, you can feel it.’
• ‘The internet’s ownership of words’
• Maria Popova: I loathe the term “content”
• Steal like an artist: ‘You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes’
• One giant leak
• Minimal Living Life Style
• Design Your First Website
• Tell Your Own Story
• How To Live Zero Waste
• How To Start A Design Career
• How To Travel By Yourself
• Simple & Minimalism in Design
• The Beginner Minimalist
• Start To Write Your Journey
• Design A Minimal Living Space
• Truths From Living with Less
• To Be Your True Self
• The Dog Photographer
• ‘I…cannot…even…’
• ‘Blockchain represents the second era of the internet.’
• The difference between blogging and writing
• Remembering MLK in restored NBC video
• Get the cool shoeshine!
• ‘My idea of a good picture is one of a famous person doing something unfamous’
• Zeynep Tufekci: We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
• Why great athletes enjoy suffering pain
• Video: Life is pain
• How to sustain momentum when we’re already on a roll
• Toward perennial
• The benefits of walking in nature
• In our time
• ‘Every great advance in knowledge has involved the rejection of authority’
• ‘The right to disconnect’ 📱
• ‘We all could be happy and fulfilled if we quit taking ourselves so damn seriously’
• The making of Isle of Dogs + VSCO presets for the film
• Making magical machines
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers 400,000 free high-res images for remixing
• Artist converts beach rock into a great white shark
• Dave Eggers: Social media is like snack food
• Banksy returns to New York
• The Wild West of data manipulation
• Simon Sinek: Do little things
• Instantly graded and discarded
• Stephen King: ‘Writing is refined thinking.’
• Leonardo Da Vinci: Thinking with an extra wrinkle in the brain
• Artist Shepard Fairey supports National School Walkout Day with two protest posters
• RIP Stephen Hawking: ‘Quiet people have the loudest minds’
• Fearing a loss of mind
• Picasso: Art as a form of diary
• Blame the humans, not the bots, for retweeting false news
• The tale behind the term ‘horsepower’ 🐎
• Henry Rollins: The One Decision that Changed My Life Forever
• ‘I wish I was a little bit smaller’
• Alien Hand Syndrome
• We are ‘brilliant only in tiny bursts’
• Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence
• Why some children struggle to hold pencils
• The difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org explained in simple terms
• The tools of our tools
• ‘Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it’
• Blasphemy? This artist sets works of art on fire 🔥
• Visuals: Faceless portrAits
• Einstein: The World As I See It
• Human rationality and craziness
• Have you forgotten how to read books?
• The simple technique that boosts your short and long-term memory
• Curiosity is not neutral
• ‘Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around’
• Worrying is a waste of time. Greet your anxiety instead.
• Facebook is a video game for adults
• Losing the freedom of mind
• Losing control of our attention
• Go another click
• How Instagram homogenizes our creativity
• Stuck on autopilot
• The gateway to light is the eye
• The link between praying and writing
• Tomorrow’s World: Children in 1966 predict what the world will be like in the year 2000
• Clash of civilizations
• The naiveté of the shortsighted
• Alan Watts: The Story of the Chinese Farmer
• The internet is peanuts
• Coping with the maelstrom of news
• Permanent voyeurism
• A high place 🌃
• Enjoying the silence of GIFs
• Drone to the rescue
• Walden, water, and wifi
• In the blink of an eye…
• The unique shall inherit the Earth
• Win back your attention by turning your screen gray 📱⬜👀
• Social media companies as old storefronts
• Your vocation chooses you
• Are we living in a computer simulation?
• The London Milkman
• Signalling anonymity
• Fire Opal
• Pythagoras: ‘Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.’
• The Population Bomb
• We shape Earth. It shapes us.
• Processing “reality” through the camera lens 📷
• Why write by hand ✍
• Upgrade your human operating system
• The chemicals between us
• Open spaces, closed doors
• Make it new
• Anxiety is a thinking problem
• The value of making up stuff
• Making for the micro
• A brain without a body
• Procrastinators can be finishers
• Alan Watts on the law of reversed effort
• Stem the tide
• Why everyone should blog
• When will digital art get its due?
• How to make up your mind and decide
• This professor describes the future educated person