the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

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In @superwuster.bsky.social's *Age of Extraction*, Wu lays out a thesis about how intermediaries - middlemen who perform a useful function connecting different groups, firms and individuals - are prone to developing "main character syndrome."

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For another, this definition lets us understand that (for most of its existence) *Google was the most successful publisher in human history*. No other institution of any kind connected more works with more audiences.

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holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

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Fayard Nicholas on the Eiffel Tower (with brother Harold) - BOTD

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