“Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly,” advises the author Alain de Botton. Perfection is the antithesis...
Abstract thinking strings together collisions of thought, producing ever-more complexity or the deepest simplicity. Tinkering with possibilities makes everything strange, at least at first. But...
“The pen is the tongue of the mind,” wrote Horace. It scribes from experience and the imagination, ricocheting from one neuron to the next. Sometimes...
Listening seeds ideas. Overheard dialogue, especially misheard words, are auditory stimulants for the imagination. Said Joan Didion in her essay “On Keeping a Notebook:” “See enough...
The write to be understood trope is itself, misunderstood. Don’t be too specific. Keep it vague enough to goad a broader curiosity. The details ruin...