206 entries under "thought"

[Most people buy transactionally to make money or get laid, and non-transactionally to support things they like. Framing yourself as a utility lands you in the first category. People want a parasocial relationship with creators, and will pay to feel excused from not trying the creative path themselves. Doing and publishing isn't enough to land you in the second category: documenting and explaining in an artful way can become as important as what you're making. Maintaining a community implies being more active on social media.]

[Try camming.]

Earning $100 a day for 200 days in the year is $20K.

Earning $200 a day for 90 days in the year is $18K.

Earning $300 a day for 60 days in the year is $18K.

Nobody watches or notices, but what quietly accumulates through practice and experience is credibility.

Similar to language, it might be useful to perform songs slightly under-prepared so that you can start accommodating shortcomings sooner.

Over-assuming to connect the dots forwards: connect backwards only makes more sense—collect in the present and forage from the past.

Capoeira movements as drawing the form of their body through your movements. Maximize awareness of your self with surroundings. Maximize control (!) of your gestures.

Prefer practices to rules.

Take decisions and write them down.

[It's hard to see how funny-shaped the box is from inside.]

I like people who can take pleasure in ordinary experience.

[The 'diamond model' describes expanding to generate lots of ideas without judgement, followed by the convergence towards making choices about what is pertinent.']

Information wants to be free but rent isn't.

[I don't apologize.]

If you're feeling intimidated, let them stretch you.

Composition as a way to remember musical ideas by putting them in mental structures.

[Don't ask what's their favourite X or most important Y.]

I love you today.

[The accountant is accountable and therefore can get emotional about numbers not lining up.]

You remove the clothes of your soul when traveling.

[I love seeing someone living their extraness.]

Writing down your thoughts requires you to observe them.

Interesting when things are impeccably organized and everything has an ID number, yet its impossible to count.

[The COVID pandemic has given the current generation a perpetual example of how we're all connected across the planet, which makes it worthwhile to address our problems: there is no longer an African problem or 'so-and-so' problem because our interdependence makes it necessary to fight for each other.]