Beyond labels
Job titles inflict pain as any definition does — they curtail thinking outside the box. Imagine what you can do with a bank of experience...
Category: Arts
Feeling the pinch
Creativity offers a piercing mental clarity that removes the mind from the gravity of mechanical postures. Unfortunately, the everyday grind fails to inspire and galvanize...
Awaiting the last twist
Waiting for that last twist — the end always requires so much patience. The information is there but the experience remains on hold. Like a...
Trivial proportion
A trivial proportion, work that’s immaterial. The precise category of work is a lifeline to a crispy identity. Experience often fails to deepen mastery. There’s...
Outside the training data
We chase the most interesting type of bullshit. The imagination lights up like a Christmas tree when the immediate world dissipates around us, and the...
The book look
Hopping from one book cover to another, we taste the one that deserves the second look. The anti-library sells in images, the library promotes with...
Too content for content
Time, infinitely manufactured, trains our brain to think forever. Eternity remains a distraction. In reality, time is scarce, the waning seconds escaping like quicksand. “One...
Expecting the least expected
Taking a stand, gradually and then suddenly. The forever longs and forever hopes of doing something urge an itch. It’s the experience that radically transforms...
The visionary compass
To be interesting, we have to be interested, that is, an atypical perspective discovers atypicality in our surroundings. Different is a way of seeing. But...
A mind run riot
Creativity occurs when the imagination runs riot. The mind, an inherently jumpy organ, delves into its own fruitful space — probing fantastic and experiential possibilities....
In the spell of imagination
To remain in the spell, unmoored from the compass of time and place. The inner narrative reverberates off our surroundings. We become how we see,...
Writing takes guts
Writing is a bitch. It takes routine, grit, and lots of induced anxiety to show up every day and put pen for paper. There’s a...