Category: Creativity
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The scribbled sheet of paper that changed fashion
Before he joined Louis Vuitton as its menswear artistic director, Virgil Abloh had lunch with Bernard Arnault. Bernard’s family owned the majority of LVMH, the parent company of Louis Vuitton and many other luxury brands, and he worked as its CEO. A lunch with Bernard was, effectively, a rite of passage. In her wonderful biography…
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A journal’s purpose
Every journal exists for one purpose: for someone to fill it up. You can fill up a journal in many ways. Here are some: writing, drawing, collage, painting, or coloring. Once the journal is full, it has achieved its purpose and it quietly transforms into a book. You can choose to dispose of it, keep…
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The asymptotic queue
I write every day at this blog. It’s a rule that I respond very well to. Some people who write every day queue up many posts ahead of time, so something goes live every day. I imagine some people are 60 or even 100 days ahead. That means a post they write today will go…
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Finding an answer to a question nobody else could answer
There have been many moments when I could have stopped writing at this blog every day. For example, this year alone, I might’ve been several days behind on posts. I was determined not to fall behind during my trip to Asia, and I didn’t, but then I fell behind upon returning to Canada. What can…
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The point of writing every day isn’t to write every day
Since 2007, every year, Tony Stubblebine publishes an article on things he feels grateful for. Except, sometimes, he’s late. A couple of days ago, he published the one for 2024—the year before this one. As I dove into his archives, I noticed he’d aggregated some years—one article might contain three or four years’ worth of…