Passion project be damned
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...
Tag: brian eno
Beware the mind virus
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...
Brian Eno: ‘Try not to get a job’
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...
Oblique Strategy: Turn it upside down
“Turn a seeming disadvantage to your advantage. The greater the seeming disadvantage, the greater the possible advantage.” Robert Fripp via Brian Eno...
Prompt cards
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 value of making up stuff
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...