Category: Creativity
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A fan of yourself
Olivia Levin wrote a book, The Story of Us, to cover Taylor Swift’s fan community. It’s a really interesting angle, and it made me wonder how a story covering Ye’s fan community would look. Right away, the phrase, “A fan of yourself,” immediately came to mind. In addition to the music, and the products, Ye…
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Experience happens in the passthrough
In technology, a passthrough is a device that allows a signal to transfer from a source to a receiver. A VCR could act as a passthrough for S-video signals to reach the TV. This concept applies to our work. In some ways, you act as a passthrough for ideas, directives, and requests. When these ideas…
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Landing it
I’ve written a couple of drafts only to find out I had no idea how to land the post. That happens sometimes. I used to hope that I could figure this out before I wrote it. This happens sometimes, too. But more often than not, if I practice that way, I get stuck in a…
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Remembering a restaurant
A few years ago, my wife and I visited Tokyo together for the first time in December. We’d arrived inbound from Chiang Mai, with a layover in Busan. It felt like travelling from summer to winter. By the time we had settled into the hotel, it was the early evening, so we searched for a…
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Good writing is like furniture
Good writing sticks around in your mind. Perhaps it may be difficult to summarize; even if it’s long, it is probably as tight as it could be already. Once you read it, even if you don’t fully consciously “get it,” you can’t go back; you start seeing what the writer is saying. I recently read…