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Need to Create? Get a Constraint
“The larger lesson is that the brain is a neural tangle of near infinite possibility, which means that it spends a lot of time and energy choosing what not to notice. As a result, creativity is traded away for efficiency; we think in literal prose, not symbolist poetry. And this is why constraints are so important: It’s not until we encounter an unexpected...
hitRECordJoe: themadeshop: “I’m talking about the... →
themadeshop:
“I’m talking about the individual US citizen’s deep fear, the same basic fear that you and I have and that everybody has except nobody ever talks about it except existentialists in convoluted French prose. Or Pascal.
Our smallness, our insignificance and mortality, yours and…
funnyordie:
Best Action Scene Car Stunt Ever
This scene is from a movie called Singham. And that sound you just heard is Jason Statham peeing his pants after watching it.
… If you feed people only trivia and entertainment, you will wither the...
– Bill Kovach & Tom Rosenstiel, “The Elements of Journalism”