dancing with constraints, pt 1 - by visakan veerasamy
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A part of me feels like I’m supposed to say that I love working with constraints. That’s what the artist does! All creativity happens within constraints, and the best creativity often happens at the bleeding-edge boundaries of constraints. I can think of contexts in which I’ve personally thought constraints are great. Twitter, for example, has a 280-character limit, and I love how it challenges me to be creative in little bite-sized chunks. There is a specific kind of beauty in a good tweet, and I have felt genuinely blessed to have been able to write a few of them. But right now, in this…
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