Creativity & Craft
Reading lists, writing, and the seven ways da Vinci thought. On loving the art without excusing the artist, on the medicine of creating before you feel ready, and on learning backwards from where you want to end up.
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The Keys To Unlimited Creativity (I Wrote My First Book!) Gardens, Graves, And Thieves. -
Who’s Your Audience? Who You Write For Changes What You Write. -
Top 007 Books For 2026 Seven Books For The Year Ahead. -
The Chameleon Principle Becoming Who You Are Not Yet. -
I Believe In Unicorns And You Should Too: Applying The VC Mindset To Life. -
Loving The Art And Not The Artist. 700 Wives, 300 Concubines, And A Failure Of A Parent. -
4 (MORE) Ways To Think Like da Vinci. Four More Principles From A Restless Mind. -
3 Ways To Think Like da Vinci Simplicity Is The Ultimate Sophistication. -
Less Than A Decade What Ten Thousand Hours Really Costs. -
The Medicine You Don’t Want: Create Now Rick Rubin And The Cure For A Block. -
Burn The Ships What The Fire Took, And What It Gave. -
Top 7 Books For 2025 Seven Books Worth Losing Yourself In. -
Why Identifying The Problem Isn't Enough To Guarantee Success: Spotting The Problem Is The Easy Part. -
A Reimagining Of Pablo Picassos Napkin: What All The Greats Had In Common. -
“Unconventionally Learn Backwards” ... Start At The End And Work Back. -
The Power of Play How Play Is Changing Lives.
Where this theme meets the others
Most insights belong to more than one idea. These are the crossings. The pieces here that reach into another theme, and what they reach for.
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Wisdom & Philosophy 19 connections
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Purpose & Identity 17 connections
Loving The Art And Not The Artist. We’ve All Got Heart Problems.
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Leadership & Business 16 connections
“Unconventionally Learn Backwards” ... Brent Coble | Coble Builders: Lessons Learned
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Resilience & Growth 12 connections
The Keys To Unlimited Creativity (I Wrote My First Book!) The 8th Wonder Of The World.
Other themes
- Wisdom & Philosophy The oldest questions, asked again this week.
- Purpose & Identity Who you are before you are anything else.
- Time & Focus The hours you have and where they go.
- Friendship & Relationships The people, and what they cost you.
- Leadership & Business Lessons from people who built something.
- Resilience & Growth What the hard parts are for.
- Rest & Stillness Doing nothing, deliberately.
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