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P – practice makes…

April 20, 2025

(the) Practice is not the means to the output, the practice is the output, because the practice is all we …

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O – three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

April 20, 2025

Of all lies, art is the least untrue. Gustav Flaubert

N- No notes.

April 20, 2025

Notae propriae, notae optimae: ‘your own notes are the best notes.’ Jeremias Drexel, Jesuit

M- Efficiency may not be the mother of invention, but surely she’s an auntie.

April 20, 2025

M – (the) more efficient you get, the more you become a “limited reservoir for other people’s expectations” – management …

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L- Looking back…but do I want to know what was back there?

April 14, 2025

Funny, I first read this book in 2014 and somehow, this section went straight over my head. Maybe then, ten …

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K- Keeping margins in life

April 12, 2025

K- (i) knew now one who was a creative professional, and neither did my parents. Novelists only existed in movies …

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J – Judge, or Judge not

April 11, 2025

Judge a man by his questions rather then by his answers. Voltare On the other hand, we have Ted Lasso, …

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I – In the very end…

April 11, 2025

“In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not their poets.” Jonas Mekas  I dare …

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H- He became a poet

April 9, 2025

He became a poet the way other men become monks: as a devotional practice, as an act of love, as …

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G- Grace to be an acolyte.

April 9, 2025

G- Grace to be an acolyte, a servant of art, is the best prayer an artist can offer. The grace …

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