Ship more art.
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Notes
Art:
- Opens doors
- Turns on lights—helps everyone in the room
- “Connects the disconnected”
- Creates bonds of culture—”allows individuals to become ‘us'”
- Transforms the recipient
- Human act of doing work that matters but might not work
- Because we can (nor for applause/money)
Shipping art:
- For the audience, who (unlike you) haven’t seen, understood, experienced it yet
- Allows change to happen
Generosity is making more and better courageous art by understanding systems, audience, “how we got here.”
“We do this by improving our craft and committing even further to our process.”
Thoughts
This is one of those chapters where I don’t really know what to say. I feel somewhat motivated (an ephemeral emotion, to be sure), especially to continue identifying what my practice—craft, process, focus, audience—will be. I have been working on my album a bit—not enough to consider this “a practice” yet, but moving in the right direction.
And this chapter helps me keep moving in that direction. Starting where I am, but trying not to simply stay where I am. Improving craft and committing to my process.
This series is meant to capture my thoughts as I work through Seth Godin’s The Practice. It’s a book with over 200 (very short) chapters, which I hope to work through and, I further hope, to implement over time.
If you’re interested in more of Godin’s ideas, or my thoughts about them, you can check out this collection of posts. Note that if you’re more interested in the former, you should probably get Godin’s book and read it yourself; my notes will be both incomplete and idiosyncratic, and my thoughts will relate to my own experience.
But if my thoughts resonate with you, or if you think I’m just silly, I welcome your comments.