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Artists must be allowed to make bad work
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Do the weirdest thing that feels right
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Shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it
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Ideas That Changed My Life
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Living the writing life means living with failure
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Show HN: While painting this, I had nothing in mind
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Things I Learned from My 2 Year Old Baby Girl
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On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage
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Toward a Better Music Theory (2013)
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Books That Changed How I Hear Music
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Books I’ve read
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My Life as a Mentalist
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Photography is not Objective, Art is a Set of Choices
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Imitate, Then Innovate
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You Don't Need a Mentor–Find a Nemesis Instead
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Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done
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If – A Poem by Rudyard Kipling
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Born to be cool: The life and music of Chet Baker
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A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important
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Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s lost album, Human Highway
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The Silent Type: On (possibly) being Bob Dylan’s son
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Jean-Michel Basquiat on How to Be an Artist
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How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries
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Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1997) [pdf]
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Klutz Press: books built for learning stuff
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Ideas That Changed My Life
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How to Speak (2018) [video]
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Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism
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College as an incubator of Girardian terror
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YouTube autoplay gave a lost Japanese classic new life (2017)
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Nobody wants to read your shit (2009)
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Coolest Things I Learned in 2018
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Book Review: Twelve Rules for Life
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Derek Sivers: Books I've Read
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Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf]
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In design, everything has been done before
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What Happens Just Before Show Time at the Met Opera
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Michael Lewis: shilling for the buyside?
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TED talks are lying
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Why Malcolm Gladwell Matters and Why That's Unfortunate
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In times of change, make tires
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Jiro's Dream
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The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned
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Oh, the Places You'll Go
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The Rules of Storytelling According to Pixar
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Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Teachers
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A story about Miles Davis and the nature of true genius
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Your taste is why your work disappoints you.
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Ideas don’t make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.
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Obvious to you. Amazing to others.
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Million-Dollar Murray: Homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage
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Jeff Bezos to Princeton's class of 2010 :"We are What We Choose"
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What Business is Wall Street In?
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How to Write Clearly, Think Clearly, and Learn Easily
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Reading list for those who love to learn
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Gladwell: Getting In, The social logic of Ivy League admissions
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Firehouse Five and the Cinderella Surprise
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Shave and a Haircut
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Miles Davis and the recording of Kind of Blue
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Library of Juggling
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How Miles Davis hired John Coltrane
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Things I Learned from René Girard
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Tom's Essay (2008)
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Sending emails to my three-year-old
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The Sun Ra Arkestra's Maestro Hits One Hundred
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