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The synergy between brilliance and absurdity is one of the paradoxes of our time. One can’t be crazy without being wickedly smart. Thinking different isn’t supposed to compute. For the innovator, experimentation is the antidote to perfectionism.
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Trial and error is a mechanism for chance discovery. The right answer is a function of the mistakes. The great mismatch between man’s mental software and that of a machine comes down to human fallibility.
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Thinking things through #amwriting wellsbaum.blog/thinking-thin…
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Conformity as a preventative structure #amwriting wellsbaum.blog/conformity-as…
“The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.” — Hugh Macleod 🐜
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When you blindly follow others, there are consequences Army ants are blind, relying on pheromones to track the ones in front, if one ant intersects with its old trail, it results in a circular death trap where they spiral until they die from exhaustion
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There is no plan. We go through long stretches of time, just guessing. But the passage into mystery lures us forward. It costs nothing to try. The world changes—we change—when we live in the continuous present to see where it’ll lead us. #amwriting wellsbaum.blog/a-test-case-o…
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As we dabble in life’s experiments, our efforts necessitate a kind of dream state. What emerges is a test case on openness, the possibility, and the ability to entertain outcomes of various kinds.
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Raging against the machine (us) #amwriting wellsbaum.blog/raging-agains…
Ear players and slow bakers #amwriting wellsbaum.blog/ear-players-a…
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Chords of inquiry #amwriting wellsbaum.blog/chords-of-inq…
Double or nothing #amwriting wellsbaum.blog/double-or-not…
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Never enough peace #amwriting wellsbaum.blog/never-enough-…
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Creativity is for the uncertain #amwriting wellsbaum.blog/creativity-is…
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Instinctively, we know when we’re on to something when we can identify a void in knowledge and sense patterns. Moving around in this world, climbing ladders, and reaching distant branches bring us closer to the richest fruits.
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The role of the creator #amwriting wellsbaum.blog/the-role-of-t…
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Making media is the process of making sense of the profundity of content. We see patterns and connections by revisiting and jumping around in our collections. Synthesizing helps consolidate information in our consciousness and headspace.
The world is covered with assholes. How do we build the confidence up to shuck them without stabbing ourselves? wellsbaum.blog/a-pace-to-pla…
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At first, we take small risks. And then we let them compound into a catalog of fortified emotions. Drip by drip, the audacity of hope builds into a fortress of perspective.
Divided by tribes, sprinkled into individuals #amwriting wellsbaum.blog/divided-by-tr…
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The image of collective minds and identities poses a challenge at the individual level. Different is attractive. The purpose of ideas is to make better friends with ourselves, to carve our own little circle amid a large box of strangers.
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The Olivetti Valentine typewriter wellsbaum.blog/the-olivetti-…
The agony of choice #amwriting wellsbaum.blog/the-agony-of-…
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The linearity of what constitutes a desk died in a format-shifting world. It’s about building better habits that reduce all the noise so the work can get done as efficiently as possible. Remember, artists ship.
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Despite all the rage #amwriting wellsbaum.blog/despite-all-t…
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In times of creative paralysis, the output can be pure chaos, less dependent on preferences, and more explicitly playful. Frustration can mistakenly tiptoe into a stretch zone. One keeps going, perhaps, even more, when they feel overloaded. #amwriting
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Intent to discover #amwriting wellsbaum.blog/intent-to-dis…
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As they say, the road is better than the end. They don’t tell you that enough along the way, or maybe the advice falls flat because fledglings are too perpetually restless to listen.
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[From the archives] All the internet's a stage #amwriting wellsbaum.blog/all-the-inter…
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Every piece of “content” is a sales opportunity.
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Nothing is mappable #amwriting wellsbaum.blog/nothing-is-ma…
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All it takes is a slight paper tear to nix the whole idea of geographic concreteness. Yet, most people remain transfixed on static, for nothing appears real until it appears on television anyway.
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