Tune in like Tolkien
Is rock the same as stone? Which is jagged? Which is round? You can guess because of your natural feeling for sound and meaning. Tolkien had that sensitivity to an almost superhuman degree.
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Approach AI like Cobain
To find a way forward, we have to look back. Hop into my time machine to survey the systems used by artists like Bowie and Cobain.
Keep going like Hemingway
Hemingway wrote with a pencil in one hand and a drink in the other. And the booze didn’t seem to slow him down. But what was his accelerant? What kept that pencil moving?
Move like Murakami
On summer evenings, I kick up dust in London parks. In winter, I skip from one streetlight to another. I’m always jogging. Because I love it. Because it fuels creative work.