How is it that every culture independently invented their own alcohol?
Author: Matt Shanks
Greens in regulation
What’s your ‘radius of OK’? How close do you need to get to perfection for it to be good enough?
The long way ’round
Do I work quickly and complete more projects? Or is it better to slow down and relish in the process, even if it means less output?
Giving something back to the timeline
We like to think of artists as individuals, but nothing could be further from the truth.
There’s no such thing as breakfast
Cultural norms and immutable laws are not the same things. Is our idea of breakfast holding us back?
Am I a writer yet?
What will it take for me to embrace (or feel like I’ve earned) a label like ‘writer’?
Clocking off
Clocks are great for getting to a train on time, but not so great for losing track of it, which is exactly what I need to make art.
I have a rule
Preferences can be bargained with, rules cannot. If you’ve got rules, people tend to generally abide by them, including yourself.
A choir needs four people
We don’t expect a single singer to be able to cover all four basic vocal ranges, so why do we expect it in most other fields?
If only I had more space
Maybe what I need isn’t more space, but a different way of thinking about the ‘limited’ space that I have.