brian eno
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Passion project be damned
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2 min read
The banality of doing what we’re told gets bottle-necked at the top of free will. Eventually, one balks at the factory of someone else’s to-do lists. We do what punctures the heart. When we feel compelled to create life intentionally, the very bottom of our souls opens up. But outsourcing the work to robots is…
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Beware the mind virus
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1 min read
Creativity dwindles with age. First, school sucks it out of you, and then corporate work puts the nail in the coffin. Patterns of normality and absolutes are leaches. Like a mind virus, they try to kill off the imagination and train your organic reflexes into compliant sheep. If you’re lucky, you’ll have no choice but…
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Brian Eno: ‘Try not to get a job’
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2 min read
What would the world look like if everyone was guaranteed a basic income? For musician Brian Eno, that society would put a lot more emphasis on time well spent. “Try not to get a job. Try to leave yourself in a position where you do the things you want to do with your time and…
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Oblique Strategy: Turn it upside down
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1 min read
“Turn a seeming disadvantage to your advantage. The greater the seeming disadvantage, the greater the possible advantage.” Robert Fripp via Brian Eno
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Prompt cards
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Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies has been helping people defeat their creative block since the mid-1970s. But Alain de Botton’s The School of Life is taking the concept a bit further and applying the deadlock to other life’s philosophies such as a career crisis, kindness, self-knowledge, calm and confidence.
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The value of making up stuff
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1 min read
Art is what we do with our extra time. It is more leisure than life. “Art is everything you don’t have to do,” as Brian Eno put it. The starving artist is compelled to have a day job. We can’t make art without the backbone of cash. However, the cashless value of writing a poem, painting…