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...
Tag: creativity
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...
Rightsizing life
The reduction of ambition rightsizes one’s life. Suddenly, those magnetic forces, trophies, hefty pocketbooks, and rich attractions lose their lure. All the stylization and mimetic...
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 catalog of emotions
We live with a catalog of emotions, whipsawing between highs and lows. Most of the undulation is due to poor internal weather. We are not...
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...
Memes are a hurricane of influence
A meme is a hurricane of influence. It finds a human host, a signal booster, who spreads the meme before it takes on a life...
The bright rush of ideas
Where do good ideas come from, and how do they form? They come from extensive research bolstered by the ability to connect the dots between...
Swallowing the elements
Deliberately bad, mashed up, distorted like a Francis Bacon painting. Ugly art brings the worst of our subconscious to the fore as a means of...
We are nobody’s establishment
Good, bad, and ugly — honesty is what’s at stake. Of course, we strive for the perfect edited self. But such is a fallacy, as...