How to have better ideas - by Tara Seshan
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Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Squiggle
Paul Cezanne, “Mont Saint-Victoire” I’ve had dinner with friends starting new projects every night this week. They always arrive with a bit of a glazed look in their eyes, limp from exhaustion. Their pace of conversation is slow. My pal T, while we were carbo-loading on German beer and pretzels as if for a marathon, said that the most exhausting part of the process was that all of the work was conceptually difficult. They were caught in an endless cycle of racking their brain for insights, making something based on those insights, and then desperately awaiting some wave of resonance to…
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