Category: Personal Development
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Vibes
We were watching a cinematic sequence that wasn’t hitting. Everyone in the room understood what it was trying to communicate — the intent was clear, the performances were there, the edit was technically fine. But something was off. It didn’t feel right. It felt like it was moving too fast, too sharp, cutting through moments…
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You Are The Engine
Somewhere along the way I came across a simple demonstration. Someone asked another person to read at a normal pace for two minutes. By the time the two minutes were up, the reader had gotten through three pages. A page a minute, give or take, depending on how dense the text is. That’s it. That’s…
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The Fastest “Team” In The Room
Let me be upfront about something before we get into it: AI is one of those topics where I think nuance tends to get flattened fast. I completely understand why a lot of creatives — artists, musicians, writers, developers — have strong and formal objections to AI tools, particularly around generated art and audio. Those…
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Interpreting Thelonious Monk’s “25 Tips for Musicians” To Game Development
In 1960, saxophonist Steve Lacy was hired to play a series of performances with Thelonious Monk. During that time he wrote down a list of tips — things Monk said, observations he made, advice offered in the way that advice often gets offered in a working band: casually, in the moment, not necessarily intended to…
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Criticism
“If you’re not your own worst critic, you’re probably not very good.” This is a quote I’ve been telling people for years, though in all honesty it’s always been more of a reminder to myself than anything else. I started saying it when I was in school, surrounded by creative people for the first time,…
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You Can Do Anything Except That
Some of the most disciplined people I can think of are fiction writers. To assign yourself the task of producing hundreds of pages of compelling original content — consistently, on a schedule, while also being your own harshest critic — seems like it would require not just a creative muscle but a kind of self-discipline…