It's what we used to do before anyone had all the answers. When maps were at best a good start on a journey that was otherwise yours.
A short meditation on our tendency as artists to cannibalize our own best work.
Sometimes what we tend to think of as linear processes may be better understood as non-linear, interconnected, and intricately responsive wholes (or gestalten).
Art is all about impressions. Just because you want something to feel a certain way doesn’t mean it has to be that way.
I think as a writer there is a lasting tension between the things you want to be on the record for as having said, and the things that might better reach your readers because they are said differently.
In regard to taking a chance on ourselves, most of our fears essentially boil down to being afraid of failing in public. And there is some validity here. I don't think we should do away with this fear entirely, pretending for even a moment that we could.
If my dream were a woman, would she be into me? Would she find me attractive? Or would I come off as some clingy, cloying loser, desperately trying to get her attention by any means possible?
What does adventure look like in a world that has largely been explored? Today, when we have questions, it’s because we don’t know; in the past, because no one knew. That’s a very different world. And today I ask…is the world really at our fingertips if everything is already in arm’s reach? It may be...
I want you to answer this question honestly: What’s the weather like today? Being the year 2025, there’s a chance you reached for your phone just now. That was me the other day. Standing in my living room just 2 steps from the door, wondering what the weather was like outside. But I didn’t open...
I think that in many ways “talent” is an adolescent idea that we unknowingly carry with us into adulthood, failing to question its worth or validity ever again.