How to do unique, creative work
It’s easy to say you should focus on doing interesting, creative work, but how do you actually go about that?
Writer James Clear says the answer is evident in the Helsinki Bus Station Theory, shared by Arno Rafael Minkkinen at a commencement speech for the New England School of Photography.
The theory is based on the Helsinki bus system, which has a station in the centre of the city that all buses leave from. For the first 1km or so, most of the buses share their route with several others, but after that first short period they split off into separate directions.
Minkkinen likened this bus system to the career of the photographers he was speaking to. Each bus route, he said, was like a direction they could choose in their careers. But after three years of working in one direction, they would still be in that first 1km where lots of other bus routes aligned with their own. They’d look around and see other photographers doing the same thing as them, and, frustrated at their struggle to find originality in their work, start over with a new bus route.
But the same thing would keep happening, since it would take more than three years to get past that first 1km to the point where the buses split off into separate directions.
You could repeat this process for your whole career, said Minkkinen, and never get to the point where your work takes on its own originality.
The answer? Stay on the bus.
In repeating this story, Clear points out that while showing up and spending time to hone your craft is important if you want to do great work, spending time on a huge variety of skills won’t ever get you to the point of mastery.
Focus is the way to mastery, says Clear, which is only achieved by staying on the bus. Eventually, you’ll see other people in your industry peel off into their own directions, and your work will start to shine in its originality.
It’s easy to say you should focus on doing interesting, creative work, but how do you actually go about that?
Writer James Clear says the answer is evident in the Helsinki Bus Station Theory, shared by Arno Rafael Minkkinen at a commencement speech for the New England School of Photography.
The theory is based on the Helsinki bus system, which has a station in the centre of the city that all buses leave from. For the first 1km or so, most of the buses share their route with several others, but after that first short period they split off into separate directions.
Minkkinen likened this bus system to the career of the photographers he was speaking to. Each bus route, he said, was like a direction they could choose in their careers. But after three years of working in one direction, they would still be in that first 1km where lots of other bus routes aligned with their own. They’d look around and see other photographers doing the same thing as them, and, frustrated at their struggle to find originality in their work, start over with a new bus route.
But the same thing would keep happening, since it would take more than three years to get past that first 1km to the point where the buses split off into separate directions.
You could repeat this process for your whole career, said Minkkinen, and never get to the point where your work takes on its own originality.
The answer? Stay on the bus.
In repeating this story, Clear points out that while showing up and spending time to hone your craft is important if you want to do great work, spending time on a huge variety of skills won’t ever get you to the point of mastery.
Focus is the way to mastery, says Clear, which is only achieved by staying on the bus. Eventually, you’ll see other people in your industry peel off into their own directions, and your work will start to shine in its originality.
Основные методы
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=> false
RussianObscenity.obscene?('текст с хуями')
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RussianObscenity.sanitize('просто хуевый текст')
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RussianObscenity.find возвращает массив найденных обсценных слов:
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RussianObscenity.obscene? анализирует содержимое и возвращает true или false в зависимости от нахождения ненормативной лексики:
RussianObscenity.obscene?('просто текст')
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RussianObscenity.obscene?('текст с хуями')
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RussianObscenity.sanitize возвращает новый текст с заменёнными матами, или оригинальный текст, если он не содержит обсценной лексики:
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RussianObscenity.sanitize('просто хуевый текст')
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RussianObscenity.sanitize('просто хуевый текст', '(бип)')
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RussianObscenity.find возвращает массив найденных обсценных слов:
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How To Make Binaural Microphones
First, you’ll need a head on which to place the microphones. We suggest using the head you were born with.
First, you’ll need a head on which to place the microphones. We suggest using the head you were born with.
The idea that anyone owes you any particular confidence or secret or aspect of their inner lives is pretty toxic. Victor Gijsbers has this comment on a past post of mine: Our entire approach to art nowadays is perhaps based around this fundamental cruelty: that we ask the creators of art to be as personal and sincere as they can be, but then as an audience reserve the right to interpret the result not as an act of person-to-person communication, but as a work, as part of an oeuvre that we can judge as an object and use as we like. While I don’t go so far as to say that art should not be autobiographical or self-revealing, I think it only makes sense to respect the creator’s choice when it isn’t.
Я-то уехал из Новосиба осенью 2013 года. Приезжаю на майские, в тюрьме посидеть.
Учёные Университета Ньюкасла на протяжении месяца исследовали поведение студентов в столовой, проверяя гипотезу о том, что изображение глаз заставляет людей вести себя более ответственно и меньше нарушать установленные правила. Для этого в случайное время и в случайных местах столовой размещались плакаты с лицами на одном уровне с глазами сидящих за столами. Оказалось, что в дни, когда такие плакаты висели, студенты в два раза чаще уносили подносы с посудой после еды, чем в дни, когда плакатов не было или на плакатах были нейтральные изображения без глаз.
Character Is the Kindling
Usually, a story is triggered by a notion I have of a character in a particular situation, and the various reactions that character might have to the situation. My starting point is always the character. Person + event + reaction = what next? If something like setting or plot or a line of dialogue happens to be the spark, it’s not the kindling. Character is always the kindling.
PATRICK RYANM
Usually, a story is triggered by a notion I have of a character in a particular situation, and the various reactions that character might have to the situation. My starting point is always the character. Person + event + reaction = what next? If something like setting or plot or a line of dialogue happens to be the spark, it’s not the kindling. Character is always the kindling.
PATRICK RYANM
моя ученица опять гений:
- ты поняла, чем отличаются пословицы от поговорок?
- ну пословицы с моралью, а поговорки тупо древнерусские мемы.
- ты поняла, чем отличаются пословицы от поговорок?
- ну пословицы с моралью, а поговорки тупо древнерусские мемы.
Человек меняется только тогда, когда заебался. Без этого магия перемен не работает. Все мы до последнего будем сидеть на краешке зоны комфорта и смотреть как рушится мир.
TIL a sailor who wishes to grow a beard in the Royal Navy has to submit a ‘permission to stop shaving’ form. He is then allowed two weeks to ‘grow a full set’ before he presents himself to the Master at Arms who will decide if his beard looks stupid or is respectably full enough to be permitted.
Are you poor, boring and like video games? We could be friends.
Shit My Photography Professor Says
"In art, you don’t get to learn something- you get to feel something. That’s why we listen to music. We don’t listen to music to learn that there are people in the world that don’t know who their daddy is. We already know that. But when Freddy Cole sings ‘I Wonder Who My Daddy Is’, you get to feel it. You get to feel what he feels."
"In art, you don’t get to learn something- you get to feel something. That’s why we listen to music. We don’t listen to music to learn that there are people in the world that don’t know who their daddy is. We already know that. But when Freddy Cole sings ‘I Wonder Who My Daddy Is’, you get to feel it. You get to feel what he feels."
14. Некоторые собаки — медведи. У медведей две бушки.
А. Собаки не с двумя бушками не являются медведями.
Б. Собак с тремя бушками не бывает.
В. Медведи, которые являются собаками, иногда имеют две бушки.
Г. Ни один вариант из вышеперечисленных.
А. Собаки не с двумя бушками не являются медведями.
Б. Собак с тремя бушками не бывает.
В. Медведи, которые являются собаками, иногда имеют две бушки.
Г. Ни один вариант из вышеперечисленных.
Доп. информация: Русский Cartoon Network вырезал все моменты с пуками героев (зачем-то), иногда захватывая целые диалоги. Поэтому вырезанные моменты вставлены из английской версии с добавлением русских субтитров.
В офисе ввели правило - редактировать сцену может только тот, у кого есть свинья.
Сторговав полный обеденный и чайный сервиз с лишком на тысячу пятьсот рублей ассигнациями и выторговав себе в эту сумму затейливой формы сигарочницу и полный серебряный прибор для бритья бороды, приценившись, наконец, еще к кое-каким в своем роде полезным и приятным вещицам, господин Голядкин кончил тем, что обещал завтра же зайти непременно или даже сегодня прислать за сторгованным, взял нумер лавки и, выслушав внимательно купца, хлопотавшего о задаточке, обещал в свое время и задаточек.
Двойник, Ф. Достоевский
Двойник, Ф. Достоевский
Everyone has ideas, but it's the folks that execute who are in demand
The audience will not tune in to watch information. You wouldn’t, I wouldn’t. No one would or will. The audience will only tune in and stay tuned in to watch drama.
DAVID MAMET
DAVID MAMET
The character limit on Twitter,
Prevents limericks — if you're a quitter.
But with one little cheat,
You can quickly defeat
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Prevents limericks — if you're a quitter.
But with one little cheat,
You can quickly defeat
(see line 1)