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Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born

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Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas

Edward Hopper, Cape Cod Morning, oil on canvas, 1950 The Knight: As you know, I am afraid of emptiness, desolation and stillness. I cannot bear the silence and isolation. Death: Emptiness is a mirror turned to your own face. — Ingmar Bergman’s workbook, April 5, 1955 In the early 2010s, a popular idea was to provide coworking spaces and shared living to people who were building startups. That way the founders would have a thriving social scene of peers to percolate ideas with as they figured out how to build and scale a venture. This was attempted thousands of times by different startup…

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