Spend it all every time - Austin Kleon

I was watching an episode of Grand Designs and host Kevin McCloud said of one of the home builders, “It’s hard to tell if Danny’s been saving money… or just not spending it.” That sentence broke my brain in a good way. Here’s this week’s list of 10: Larry David is said to put every single good idea he likes into each season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. “So at the end of the season, there’s this hole — there aren’t any ideas that he really likes — so how could he possibly do another season? He’s the only person on the planet who doesn’t think he’s going to come up with more good ideas.” Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life: “One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something

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