Category: Making

What effect does using good art materials have on what I’m able to make?

How is it possible to make a good decision and have a bad outcome?

What can I learn from how brewers help or hinder the flavour profile of rice when they’re making sake?

If I’ve only noticed the sunrise a handful of times out of tens of thousands of daily opportunities. What else have I missed?

If you feel like dancing, you probably wouldn’t book last minute tickets to a Chopin concert. So what’s bad music? And can bad books exist?

Is there value in being consistent & predictable? Is there value in the opposite?

What if we chose to build our own neural networks instead of the networks of enormous and extractive software companies?

Could thinking of ourselves as a characters in an unwritten movie help us process good and bad surprises and make the movie more interesting?

How do I organise, prioritise and complete the life shrapnel that gets in the way of making more significant work? Can an empty square help?

Why bother making a weird idea that’s really difficult to make if it won’t make you money, find an audience?