A New Way of Operating

📌 Be so good they can’t ignore you ⏱ 2026-04-15 21:33:09

📌 All you have to do is show your work ⏱ 2026-04-15 21:39:16

1. You Don’t Have to Be a Genius.

📌 Scenius doesn’t take away from the achievements of those great individuals; it just acknowledges that good work isn’t created in a vacuum, and that creativity is always, in some sense, a collaboration, the result of a mind connected to other minds. ⏱ 2026-04-15 21:47:36

📌 What I love about the idea of scenius is that it makes room in the story of creativity for the rest of us: the people who don’t consider ourselves geniuses. ⏱ 2026-04-15 21:48:03

📌 Online, everyone—the artist and the curator, the master and the apprentice, the expert and the amateur—has the ability to contribute something ⏱ 2026-04-15 21:50:51

📌 That’s all any of us are: amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else. ⏱ 2026-04-15 21:52:49

📌 Amateurs are not afraid to make mistakes or look ridiculous in public. They’re in love, so they don’t hesitate to do work that others think of as silly or just plain stupid. ⏱ 2026-04-15 21:53:10

📌 The stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act ⏱ 2026-04-15 21:53:30

📌 They were terrible. . . . I wanted to get up and be terrible with them.” Raw enthusiasm is contagious. ⏱ 2026-04-15 21:59:18

📌 The world is changing at such a rapid rate that it’s turning us all into amateurs. Even for professionals, the best way to flourish is to retain an amateur’s spirit and embrace uncertainty and the unknown. ⏱ 2026-04-15 21:58:57

📌 But now I realize that the only way to find your voice is to use it. It’s hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow. ⏱ 2026-04-15 22:03:41

📌 Ebert was blogging because he had to blog—because it was a matter of being heard, or not being heard. A matter of existing or not existing. ⏱ 2026-04-15 22:06:36

📌 If you want people to know about what you do and the things you care about, you have to share. ⏱ 2026-04-15 22:07:17

📌 Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked ⏱ 2026-04-15 22:08:36

📌 It’s for this reason that I read the obituaries every morning. Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards. Reading them is a way for me to think about death while also keeping it at arm’s length ⏱ 2026-04-15 22:13:02

2. Think Process, Not Product.

📌 lot of people are so used to just seeing the outcome of work. They never see the side of the work you go through to produce the outcome.” ⏱ 2026-04-15 22:17:05

📌 To all viewers but yourself, what matters is the product: the finished artwork. To you, and you alone, what matters is the process: the experience of shaping the artwork. ⏱ 2026-04-15 22:19:15

📌 But human beings are interested in other human beings and what other human beings do. “People really do want to see how the sausage gets made. ⏱ 2026-04-15 22:24:13

📌 In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen—really seen. ⏱ 2026-04-15 22:26:56

📌 But whatever the nature of your work, there is an art to what you do, and there are people who would be interested in that art, if only you presented it to them in the right way. ⏱ 2026-04-15 22:28:43

📌 The first step is to scoop up the scraps and the residue of your process and shape them into some interesting bit of media that you can shar ⏱ 2026-04-27 11:47:16

📌 No one is going to give a damn about your résumé; they want to see what you have made with your own little fingers. ⏱ 2026-04-15 22:30:37

📌 Become a documentarian of what you do. Start a work journal: Write your thoughts down in a notebook, or speak them into an audio recorder. Keep a scrapbook. Take a lot of photographs of your work at different stages in your process. Shoot video of you working. ⏱ 2026-04-27 11:47:17

📌 Become a documentarian of what you do. Start a work journal: Write your thoughts down in a notebook, or speak them into an audio recorder. Keep a scrapbook. Take a lot of photographs of your work at different stages in your process. Shoot video of you working. This isn’t about making art, it’s about simply keeping track of what’s going on around you. Take advantage of all the cheap, easy tools at your disposal—these days, most of us carry a fully functional multimedia studio around in our smartphones. ⏱ 2026-04-15 22:32:17

📌 Whether you share it or not, documenting and recording your process as you go along has its own rewards: You’ll start to see the work you’re doing more clearly and feel like you’re making progress. And when you’re ready to share, you’ll have a surplus of material to choose from. ⏱ 2026-04-15 22:32:37

3. Share Something Small Everyday.

📌 Put yourself, and your work, out there every day, and you’ll start meeting some amazing people ⏱ 2026-04-27 11:47:14

📌 Don’t worry about everything you post being perfect. ⏱ 2026-04-27 11:47:07

📌 The trouble is, we don’t always know what’s good and what sucks. That’s why it’s important to get things in front of others and see how they react. ⏱ 2026-04-27 11:47:18

📌 like to work while the world is sleeping, and share while the world is at work. ⏱ 2026-04-27 11:47:05

📌 If you’re having a hard time balancing the two, just set a timer for 30 minutes. Once the timer goes off, kick yourself off the Internet and get back to work ⏱ 2026-04-27 11:47:08

📌 One day at a time. It sounds so simple. It actually is simple but it isn’t easy: It requires incredible support and fastidious structuring.”“一天天地过。听起来很简单。确实简单，但并不容易：这需要强大的支持与精心的规划。” ⏱ 2026-04-27 11:47:06

📌 Make no mistake: This is not your diary. You are not letting it all hang out. You are picking and choosing every single word ⏱ 2026-04-27 11:47:14

📌 Post as though everyone who can read it has the power to fire you.” ⏱ 2026-04-27 11:47:13

📌 Sloan says the magic formula is to maintain your flow while working on your stock in the background. ⏱ 2026-04-27 11:47:06

📌 In my experience, your stock is best made by collecting, organizing, and expanding upon your flow. ⏱ 2026-04-27 11:47:09

📌 Once you make sharing part of your daily routine, you’ll notice themes and trends emerging in what you share. You’ll find patterns in your flow ⏱ 2026-04-27 11:47:10

📌 Carving out a space for yourself online, somewhere where you can express yourself and share your work, is still one of the best possible investments you can make with your time.” ⏱ 2026-04-27 11:47:12

📌 The beauty of owning your own turf is that you can do whatever you want with it. Your domain name is your domain. You don’t have to make compromises. Build a good domain name, keep it clean, and eventually it will be its own currency. ⏱ 2026-04-27 11:47:11

4. Open Up Your Cabinet of Curiosities.

📌 The problem with hoarding is you end up living off your reserves. Eventually, you’ll become stale. If you give away everything you have, you are left with nothing. This forces you to look, to be aware, to replenish. . . . Somehow the more you give away, the more comes back to yo ⏱ 2026-04-27 11:47:09

📌 They were the precursors to what we think of today as the modern museum—a place dedicated to the study of history, nature, and the arts ⏱ 2026-04-27 11:47:19

📌 e all have our own treasured collections. They can be physical cabinets of curiosities, say, living room bookshelves full of our favorite novels, records, and movies, or they can be more like intangible museums of the heart, our skulls lined with memories of places we’ve been, people we’ve met, experiences we’ve a ⏱ 2026-04-27 11:47:15

📌 Before we’re ready to take the leap of sharing our own work with the world, we can share our tastes in the work of others. ⏱ 2026-04-29 16:00:27

📌 Your influences are all worth sharing because they clue people in to who you are and what you do—sometimes even more than your own work. ⏱ 2026-04-29 16:04:02

📌 我不相信有可耻的乐趣。如果你他妈的喜欢某样东西，那就尽情享受。 ⏱ 2026-04-29 16:06:45

📌 When you find things you genuinely enjoy, don’t let anyone else make you feel bad about it. Don’t feel guilty about the pleasure you take in the things you enjoy. ⏱ 2026-04-29 16:14:53

📌 Being open and honest about what you like is the best way to connect with people who like those things, too. ⏱ 2026-04-29 16:14:41

📌 If you share the work of others, it’s your duty to make sure that the creators of that work get proper credit. ⏱ 2026-04-29 16:16:14

📌 ou should always share the work of others as if it were your own, treating it with respect and ⏱ 2026-04-29 16:16:31

📌 Without attribution, they have no way to dig deeper into the work or find more of i ⏱ 2026-04-29 16:17:41

📌 ’d have been robbed of a lot of these connections if it weren’t for the generosity and meticulous attribution of many of the people I follow. ⏱ 2026-04-29 16:20:58

📌 Online, the most important form of attribution is a hyperlink pointing back to the website of the creator of the work. ⏱ 2026-04-29 16:21:25

📌 The number one rule of the Internet: People are lazy. If you don’t include a link, no one can click i ⏱ 2026-04-29 16:21:54

📌 ll of this raises a question: What if you want to share something and you don’t know where it came from or who made it? The answer: Don’t share things you can’t properly credit. Find the right credit, or don’t ⏱ 2026-04-29 16:22:29

5. Tell Good Stories.

📌 When shown an object, or given a food, or shown a face, people’s assessment of it—how much they like it, how valuable it is—is deeply affected by what you tell them about it. ⏱ 2026-04-29 16:29:31

📌 Stories are such a powerful driver of emotional value that their effect on any given object’s subjective value can actually be measured objectivel ⏱ 2026-04-29 16:31:53

📌 ur audience is a human one, and humans want to connect. Personal stories can make the complex more tangible, spark associations, and offer entry into things that might otherwise leave one ⏱ 2026-04-29 16:44:07

📌 The most important part of a story is its structure. A good story structure is tidy, sturdy, and logical. ⏱ 2026-04-29 16:53:23

📌 Emma Coats, a former storyboard artist at Pixar, outlined the basic structure of a fairy tale as a kind of Mad Lib that you can fill in with your own elements: “Once upon a time, there was _____. Every day, _____. One day, _____. Because of that, _____. Because of that, _____. Until finally, _____.” Pick your favorite story and try to fill in the blanks. It’s striking how often it works. ⏱ 2026-04-29 16:57:18

📌 Author John Gardner said the basic plot of nearly all stories is this: “A character wants something, goes after it despite opposition (perhaps including his own doubts), and so arrives at a win, lose, or draw.” ⏱ 2026-04-29 16:59:41

📌 A good pitch is set up in three acts: The first act is the past, the second act is the present, and the third act is the future. ⏱ 2026-05-03 00:48:11

📌 Speak to them directly in plain language. Value their time. Be brief. Learn to speak. Learn to write. Use spell-check. You’re never “keeping it real” with your lack of proofreading and punctuation, you’re keeping it unintelligible. ⏱ 2026-05-03 00:50:17

📌 verybody loves a good story, but good storytelling doesn’t come easy to everybody. It’s a skill that takes a lifetime to master. So study the great stories and then go find some of your own. Your stories will get better the more you tell t ⏱ 2026-05-03 00:51:03

📌 You should be able to explain your work to a kindergartner, a senior citizen, and everybody in between. ⏱ 2026-05-03 00:53:32

📌 Remember what the author George Orwell wrote: “Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.” ⏱ 2026-05-03 00:56:13

📌 Bios are not the place to practice your creativity. We all like to think we’re more complex than a two-sentence explanation, but a two-sentence explanation is usually what the world wants from us. Keep it short and sweet. ⏱ 2026-05-03 00:57:54

📌 Strike all the adjectives from your bio. If you take photos, you’re not an “aspiring” photographer, and you’re not an “amazing” photographer, either. You’re a photographer. Don’t get cute. Don’t brag. Just state the facts. ⏱ 2026-05-03 00:58:28

6. Teach What You Know.

📌 The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes. ⏱ 2026-05-03 00:59:32

📌 Just because you know the master’s technique doesn’t mean you’re going to be able to emulate it right away. ⏱ 2026-05-03 01:04:13

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