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you are not a perfect person, so the thing you're making isn't gonna be perfect anyway. if you're a amateur, you need to make piece with the fact that the shit you're making is gonna be kind of amateur, and that's fine
Feb 26, 2025
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And as long as you have fun doing something, don’t give yourself shit for it
Feb 26, 2025
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i don't mean "stop caring about doing good work," i mean "stop trying to curate a perfect and unimpeachable record of work."
some stuff you put out will be good, and some stuff you put out will be bad. but you - the artist with all the emotional stakes involved - are uniquely terrible at predicting whether you've knocked it out of the park or shit the bed. you just have to put the fucking thing out there and see.
the world will let you know if you're off the perc or not - you just worry about running your shit.
Jan 2, 2025
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it's okay to be bad at stuff!! don't let some video of an 8 year-old (insert skill here) prodigy make you feel inconsequential. make shitty music. draw like a little kindergartener who can't hold a pencil very well. fail at landing an ollie. it's better to start somewhere and be terrible at first (with room to improve) than never start at all.
Jan 23, 2024
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Make things, stop thinking about making things and just make things.
Don’t make things that potentially will make a profit.
Let yourself fail (which you probably aren't).
Don’t even tell anyone you want to start, take the pressure off it.
We aren’t all child prodigies. THATS OKAY! and GOOD!
Stop thinking, start doing :)
Sep 6, 2024
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spent the last two weeks working on an interactive guide, recommendations database, and digital library (link depot) to help get people off of social media. the first draft is done now, and it's at the link to this post.
it's still very much a work in progress (the library is especially thin atm) - which is why i wanted to share it here before unleashing it upon my IRL friends and the general public. i welcome any and all feedback, bug reports, and suggestions for things to add. i will be pushing updates to it out like a madman in the coming weeks, so be sure to check back every so often to see new additions to the database and library.
additionally, i am still on the hunt for newsletters from local venues / community organizations / magazines / newspapers, etc. the only cities i have remotely covered so far are nyc, orlando, denver, brisbane, and little bits of worcester and chicago. if you know anything in your area that fits the bill, send it my way!
Jan 27, 2025
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it is your civic duty to mercilessly mock generative ai users as much as possible
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chronological feeds on social media are a dying breed and it's so important to maintain the ones you still have
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