Category: Creativity
The creative process, the 650 exercises, the permissions, and what happens when you stop managing your own output.
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I Built a System to Write This. Then the System Taught Me Everything.
About this post: I didn’t build this blog pipeline to blog faster. I built it because I kept…
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Playing With Purpose: Research Without an Agenda
Playing With Purpose Exercise 11: Research something you think you know — with no agenda. The goal isn’t…
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What 3 or 4 Years of Talking to AI Taught Me About Talking to Myself
After 3 years of talking to AI, I learned something unexpected about talking to myself.
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What If a Song Wrote Your Next Design?
A design brief full of contradictions. A song playing in the background. Twenty minutes later, the whole thing…
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Your Best Ideas Don’t Come From Trying Harder
About this post: I’m on the treadmill at 5:30 in the morning five days a week, and it…
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Playing With Purpose: Ask a Better Question
Playing With Purpose Exercise 10: Rewrite your stuck question five times, each layer deeper. The question you started…
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The Hardest Thing to Unlearn Is the Habit That Still Works
About this post: The habits easiest to break are the ones clearly failing you. The hardest to question…
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Your First Version Isn’t a Failure — It’s a Filter
Your first version isn’t a failure — it’s a filter. The gap between version one and version two…
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Playing With Purpose: The System Behind the Feeling
Playing With Purpose Exercise 9: Take an emotional response you can’t explain and reverse-engineer the structure behind it.…
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The 450th Exercise Changed Everything
The first 400 exercises showed a clear pattern. Then Exercise 450 broke it — and the spike in…