Life · @Jason’s Microblog!

Suits think EVERYONE is a spark plug. They don’t have a clue why this guy they paid to draw Batman didn’t wake up one day and become Frank Miller. They can’t tell the difference between Frank Miller and another creator.

They think it’s luck. A trick.

There is craft and then there is creation.

And the suits don’t know what that is.

Suits, of course, love AI art.

Processed cheese pictures made up of the real pictures made by real human beings, easily replaced on the cheap.

Like spark plugs.

— @ColleenDoran

https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/artists-sell-themselves-so-cheap

#Art #Creation #Life

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Ursula Vernon on Unrealistic Expectations and Eating Bread

https://janusworx.com/blog/ursula-vernon-on-unrealistic-expectations/

#UrsulaVernon #Art #Life #100WordHabit #mjbWrites

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Cal Newport’s Minimalist Note Taking System

https://janusworx.com/blog/note-to-self-cal-newports-minimal-notes-system/

#100WordHabit #mjbWrites #Reading #Books #Syntopica #Productivity #CalNewport #Life #NoteTaking #BookNotes

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The world has told you lies about how small you are.

— Heather Havrilesky

https://www.tumblr.com/mythologyofblue/679127486490099712/the-world-has-told-you-lies-about-how-small-you

#Quote #mjbQuote #Life #Strength #Resilience

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I have no words to offer which may comfort the reader who is also a castaway, except that rescue may come at any time but not necessarily when you expect it;
and that even if you give up hope, you must never give up trying, for, as the result of your efforts, hope may well return and with justification

— Dougal Robertson, Sea Survival

via @mariapopova
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/02/28/sea-survival-dougal-robertson/

#Life #Hope #Desperation #mjbDoTheWork #Resilience #AntiFragile

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Theoretical research in the sciences is the unfallen version of Fuck Around and Find Out. 😀

— Diane Duane

https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/733143720787132416/theoretical-research-in-the-sciences-is-the

#Science #Art #Life #Tinkering #Exploring #MakeMistakes

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Because I wrote a book called *Steal Like an Artist*, some people think I’m really interested in plagiarism. Actually, I’m much more interested in *forgery*.

“Plagiarism is the flip side of forgery,” wrote Andrew Potter in *The Authenticity Hoax*. “Forgers pass off their own work as that of someone else, while plagiarists pass off the work of others as their own.”

In other words: Plagiarism is taking credit for someone else’s work. Forgery is giving someone else credit for work you create.

The difference is you *doing the work*.

— Austin Kleon
https://austinkleon.com/2023/11/01/3-recent-newsletters/

#Art #Life #mjbDoTheWork #StealLikeAnArtist #AustinKleon

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