As I sit here trying to think what to write, starting to type these very words that you’re now reading in an effort to delay the fact that I should say something of meaning, I’m still thinking about value. In a piece where I’d like to tell you that this is absolutely
This is good shit! And I don’t swear on the internet. Just spent a week doing an intensive value searching experiment on Instagram. I came out of it alive, sort of, and just wrote about it today.
This is so great - the purpose and the tone. Your writing and podcast put me at ease, make me feel less like I'm reading and listening, and more like I'm just relaxing with a new friend. And I think about the topic of your post often - it's so easy to be yourself and write your own way in a little cave, but once the rock is rolled away and you are confronted by people's witnessing of you, and feedback, it's like you have to be even more vigilant about how or if that witnessing is influencing you. Like the Hawthorne Effect but with creativity and truth vs productivity and experiments. I'm rambling. Great fucking post.
Value is such a weird proposition. One person's value is another person's piece of wank. So many variables.
I'm a big fan of writing the stuff you'd want to read. Those that enjoy it too are probably those that buy into the value part.
Then again, it's Sunday afternoon and I'm a bit woozy on Percocet for my injured foot, so what do I know? 🤔😝
Good stuff, mate.
This is good shit! And I don’t swear on the internet. Just spent a week doing an intensive value searching experiment on Instagram. I came out of it alive, sort of, and just wrote about it today.
This was really good. And not just because of bullet point #6.
We are of one mind on all of this...
This is so great - the purpose and the tone. Your writing and podcast put me at ease, make me feel less like I'm reading and listening, and more like I'm just relaxing with a new friend. And I think about the topic of your post often - it's so easy to be yourself and write your own way in a little cave, but once the rock is rolled away and you are confronted by people's witnessing of you, and feedback, it's like you have to be even more vigilant about how or if that witnessing is influencing you. Like the Hawthorne Effect but with creativity and truth vs productivity and experiments. I'm rambling. Great fucking post.