[[Topics]] ## Notes - [[4 simple ways to have a great idea]] - [[5 whys]] - [[99% of what I write I'll never use]] - [[Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is specifically your own]] - [[A creative moment is part of a larger creative process, which in turn is part of a creative life]] - [[A great idea]] - [[Always position yourself to choose ideas rather than create them]] - [[Anticipation is innovation]] - [[A piece of you is materialized in the making of every project]] - [[Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what’s already there.]] - [[Art is the transfer of emotion from the maker to the experiencer]] - [[A shop is a possibility engine]] - [[A strong spirit transcends rules]] - [[At least 50% of my design work is curating the things that I work with]] - [[Augment talent with effort]] - [[A wizard does not make mistakes. He makes unexpected possibilities.]] - [[Be in the mindset where the problem becomes an opportunity most beautiful and boundless]] - [[Be scrappy, not crappy]] - [[Be scrappy, not sloppy]] - [[Bricolage]] - [[Building complete things requires the desire to make and the discipline to follow through]] - [[Building the machine that builds the machine]] - [[Building upon and respecting a foundation made many years ago]] - [[Build the skills in a way that you accomplish the greatest possible tasks]] - [[Capture ideas in the pieces they come in. Eventually, with patience, the puzzle will reveal itself.]] - [[Change your mindset from "what can I buy" to "what can I make"]] - [[Chords are coordinates. They send you to a place.]] - [[Combining imagination and enterprise]] - [[Context shapes content]] - [[Create the experiences that most won't notice but many will feel]] - [[Creativity cannot be manufactured, only captured.]] - [[Creativity is a language of curiosity]] - [[Creativity is doing the what to answer the why]] - [[Creativity is intelligence having fun]] - [[Creativity is just connecting things]] - [[Creativity is the enemy]] - [[Creativity lives in both calmness and chaos]] - [[Cultivate a wealth of experiences, a collection of dots for your creativity to connect]] - [[Cut scope not corners]] - [[Cut the cliches]] - [[Design thinking for all. Design thinking for storybook characters.]] - [[Devin Townsend interview about his relationship with metal]] - [[Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.]] - [[Does Dune have it's own rhythm? It's so obvious I would find a woman who should know everything about rhythm, and then give you the cry of a banshee.]] - [[Do it for the love, not for the likes]] - [[Don't force creativity. Capture it.]] - [[Don't ration creativity]] - [[Don't think outside the box. Think as if there were no box to begin with.]] - [[Don't wait for inspiration. Work to discover it.]] - [[Drawing manga the hard way]] - [[Dream big. Start small. Ship often.]] - [[Effective creativity]] - [[Effective creativity is a made between experimentation and analysis]] - [[Embrace the void]] - [[Every project has a wall. Makes you want to quit every time.]] - [[Evolution is defined by difference accepted]] - [[Explore tangents but never get lost in them]] - [[Explore what's possible, not what's expected]] - [[Externalizing thoughts opens the freedom to dream]] - [[Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.]] - [[Figure what the thing is suppose to be rather than imposing your vision on a future]] - [[First principles]] - [[Fully embrace your role to remix]] - [[Generate an exponential number more ideas than what you will actually come up with for success]] - [[George Carlin's foolproof system for organizing ideas]] - [[George Carlin's last interview]] - [[Getting lost in the details is just a way to comfort yourself when you’re lost in the project]] - [[Give yourself permission to be creative]] - [[Good ideas reveal themselves; even with sloppy setups.]] - [[Great things are done by a series of small things brought together]] - [[Harness the chaos]] - [[How Hans Zimmer created the score for Dune]] - [[How to avoid getting lost in the detail]] - [[How to Become a Master - Kim Jung Gi]] - [[How to copy ideas like James Clear]] - [[How to draw like LeBron James]] - [[How to have a creative breakthrough]] - [[How to not get lost during jazz improvisation]] - [[How to solve problems like a designer]] - [[Ideas should be effortless to capture and impossible to lose]] - [[Ideation is one thing]] - [[I'd rather post nothing than something I'm not excited about]] - [[If all art is metaphor, then all art begins with memory]] - [[If I could rebuild my shop from scratch - Ask Adam Savage]] - [[If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses]] - [[If the pen is too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of ain't funny]] - [[If you have an idea you’re excited about and you don’t bring it to life, it’s not uncommon for the idea to find its voice through another maker.]] - [[If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.]] - [[I'm trying to remember the feeling because when I go to chase it later, I'm going to have to reverse engineer the feeling in order to get the chord structure.]] - [[Innovation is inherently disruptive]] - [[Inside out]] - [[Inspiration creates momentum that drives momentous change]] - [[Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work]] - [[Intense constraints demand extreme execution]] - [[ISRU (In Situation Resource Utilization) - Tom Sachs]] - [[Iteration reveals what something truly is, what it’s meant to be, and what it’s meant to do.]] - [[It's always easier to start with something over nothing]] - [[It's amazing what you can do with a bit of imagination and a binder clip]] - [[It’s not because the other artist stole your idea, but because the idea’s time has come.]] - [[It's the small ideas that, when pieced together, create something extraordinary.]] - [[I've written songs where I don't like this whole song, but I like these couple of lines, so I might recycle them and use them in something later]] - [[I write and write and write till my brain hurts]] - [[John Mayer describes his song writing process]] - [[Journal like a scientist]] - [[Keep the form. Enhance the flavour.]] - [[Limited thinking leads to limited possibilities]] - [[Lists are intrinsic to creation]] - [[Make a game that people want to play.]] - [[Make ideas instinct]] - [[Makers who devote themselves to the quality of making]] - [[Make the thing that competitors cannot help but copy]] - [[Making - Anytime you use your point of view to make something that didn't exist]] - [[Making gives life to something otherwise dead or non-existent]] - [[Making things easy is hard]] - [[Many great ideas come when people do surprisingly simple things]] - [[Messiness is part of making]] - [[Minimize input. Maximize output.]] - [[Music is ultimately about feeling]] - [[My challenge was not being a grown up, but to regress in a way and become the reckless 13 year old teenager]] - [[My content creation workflow revealed]] - [[My enjoyment in making things, my creativity, has never once changed based on the stuff that I've owned.]] - [[Necessity is the mother of invention]] - [[Never let the difficulty of details dissuade you from dreaming]] - [[Observing the world in order to ask an interesting question]] - [[Optimize your flow to move as fast as you think and feel]] - [[Output before input]] - [[Outside in]] - [[Overcome writer's block by leveraging an arsenal of mechanisms and tricks to fool yourself into working better.]] - [[Passion is momentum. Momentum is passion.]] - [[Pencils are forbidden]] - [[People don't have ideas. Ideas have people.]] - [[Pharrell and Rick Rubin have a conversation (Part 1)]] - [[Picking the forth]] - [[Play x Flow]] - [[Please think about your legacy because you are writing it every day]] - [[Pop an ollie and innovate - Rodney Mullen]] - [[Prince's work ethic]] - [[Proficiency is the sculptor, knowledge is the marble, curiosity is the vision, and discovery is the masterpiece.]] - [[Programming is too much fun to stop]] - [[Prototyping is a conversation you have with your ideas]] - [[Real greatness is making everything before you came obsolete and everything after you arrived change]] - [[Reduce the lag for ideation, but never while ideating]] - [[Small pieces of inspiration can reveal the whole picture of innovation]] - [[Sometimes even hearing a bad idea is a great way to get to a good idea]] - [[Spider-Man... The worst idea I've ever heard.]] - [[Stacking ammo]] - [[Stack your creativity toolkit]] - [[Stagnation is the precursor to degradation]] - [[Stop celebrating failure]] - [[Sympathetic magic]] - [[Take what others do, make it better, and give it back so that we all rise further and higher together]] - [[Taking advantage of our natural sense of curiosity and wonder]] - [[Techniques aren’t limited to one discipline; they’re universal methods for solving problems. Understand them, and you can apply them anywhere.]] - [[The best part is no part, the best process is no process]] - [[The best way out is always through]] - [[The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas]] - [[The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have]] - [[The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.]] - [[The expected and the required are where most people are. The possible is where you need to be.]] - [[The individual over any established system]] - [[The one-day build concept - Adam Savage]] - [[The point isn't to make something perfect. The point is to make, period.]] - [[The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.]] - [[The rage might not be there, but the passion is the exact same as it's always been]] - [[There are no bad ideas, just bad decisions]] - [[There are no bad ideas, just priorities]] - [[There's intrinsic value in creating for the sake of creating it]] - [[The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed]] - [[The storage method speaks to both practicality and imagination]] - [[The technique is just your tool]] - [[The truth about making cartoons]] - [[The unique perspective you have can result in unconventional thinking that can move the needle]] - [[The Wall]] - [[The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing]] - [[The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn’t write.]] - [[The writing of a thousand pages begins with a single word]] - [[Thinking in levels]] - [[This is why you don't feel inspired]] - [[To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.]] - [[To become one. You think, it is.]] - [[To be creative is to be courageous]] - [[To be creative, you must first surrender yourself to the naivete of curiosity and wonder]] - [[To create new things, you must be emboldened with the curiosity to try and the courage to fail]] - [[Void time]] - [[We don't know what it will be because it hasn't told us yet. Eventually, it will tell us what it wants to be, and our job is to execute that.]] - [[What did you undesign? Undesigning is the best thing]] - [[What if]] - [[What people get wrong about concept art]] - [[When I step onto the court, I don’t have to think about anything… It’s like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.]] - [[When to store a project - Ask Adam Savage]] - [[When you do something beyond traditional parameters, in a way that is almost reckless, amazing things start to happen]] - [[When you reach someone with feeling, that's when you can play with less techniques and you end up playing more music.]] - [[Why Tom Morello doesn't cut his guitar strings]] - [[Without enough dots to connect, it's very difficult to create things that are better than average]] - [[Yes, and...]] - [[You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.]] - [[You can't create a good experience if you're having a bad one]] - [[You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.]] - [[You shape what you do based on your environment]] - [[You want to invite your audience on an adventure]]