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Godin’s The Practice: “Trust Your Self”

12.28.2022 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

An important premise, which serves as epigraph for the whole book: “The magic of the creative process is that there is no magic.”

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Categories // Notes and Thoughts: Godin's The Practice Tags // muse, notes and thoughts, practice notes, seth godin, steven pressfield, the practice, war of art

Notes and Thoughts on Austin Kleon’s Show Your Work

12.26.2022 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Blackout poem: "I write what I want to read."
Newspaper blackout poem from Austin Kleon’s website: https://austinkleon.com/2014/06/11/mission-statement/

I’m afraid that all I really needed from this book was the title: Show Your Work.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // austin kleon, brian eno, david byrne, ian svenonius, john scalzi, metrics, notes and thoughts, outdoor elvis, paul bloom, piper cj, pragmatism, rick beato, robin sloan, seth godin, show your work, sidney lumet, sting, the night and its moon, the swirling eddies, tim ferriss

Getting oriented: the arc of pragmatism (Bacon, Preface and Introduction)

06.03.2020 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Rodin's "The Thinker"
Photo by Valentin B. Kremer on Unsplash

It’s been awhile since I’ve spent much time with philosophy. It feels equal parts strange and good to be back.

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Categories // Notes and Thoughts on Pragmatism Tags // charles sanders peirce, john dewey, jurgen habermas, michael bacon, notes and thoughts, ntp-mb, philosophy, postmodernism, pragmatism, william james

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