Advice Less

You may have found this blog project and be thinking that I’ve made a terrible mistake.

There’s not really much advice here, you might be thinking.

You’re not wrong, but you’re not right.

This was never intended to be a manual about being a creative person. No. Not at all. It was meant to be a collection of thoughts on the accidental nature of creativity. I have no solid advice. I have no lists of skills to check off on your way towards success.  I have no morals or lessons or cautionary tales with polished insights at the end.

This is a fumbling, imperfect exercise in abstraction. It is an daily exercise in being lost on a path that is as much about the journey as it is about a destination. Imperfection is the goal.

You want a lesson?

Fail more. Because it means you tried something and maybe learned.

Embrace different. Because it might be the only way to stand out in a crowd.

Close your eyes and ignore all the other advice. Because copying is what machines do and the humanity of creativity is something that might not be teachable so much as felt, gleaned, experienced, caught, or whatever.

You’re not wrong. There isn’t much advice here, just a few notes from the last guy to wander this path and never really find his way out.