Creativity is a habit. - Do the Work, Danze
I’ve fallen into a bit of a rabbit hole with Rishabh Dassani as it seems each of their posts speaks to me on some level or another. Giving me little bits of advice in productivity, organisation and life.
Some of the points outlined in Do the work have reminded me of things I have discovered myself and then let slip.
Today was very much beach day. Not because the weather was great (it was OK but not great), but simply because we would rather not do anything. We don’t have the luxury of being somewhere exotic so we have to make do with the English beaches. We sat in the waves for a few hours and enjoyed ourselves none the less.
Lucie has a love of the water and the ocean in particular, so she won’t leave it until it’s home time!
I woke up this morning with a need to take some photos. No idea why, but it wouldn’t go away so I took my x100v when I walked the dog.
Found a nice little church tucked out the way
And took some public footpaths back
However it just didn’t cut it, so I took my XT3 and walked around for an hour or so in the early sunshine.
Lucie woke us up at a ridiculous time this morning, but instead of wallowing in our tiredness we decided to get up and watch the sunrise.
What could have been a terrible sleep deprived morning turned into one of the most awe inspiring experiences I have had for a while.
There was just myself, my wife and Lucie on the sea front, with nothing to hear but the calm waves.
We all needed to switch off for a bit so we’ve headed to Norfolk for a few days doing nothing.
Saw the nicest vintage bus in the car park
And went straight to the pub!
Around this time last year, I gave up my work iMac Pro and began working on my personal MacBook Pro. In many ways, this was the best decision I have ever made because I can take my computer wherever I am in the office and also plug it into a monitor when I am working at home. Yet, my work and my creative life have never felt the same since.
I didn’t, as I suspected, renew my Glass subscription just for the sake of it I cancelled and deleted my account. Nothing personal and I know people around here love it, but the cost was not worth it.
I still can’t really figure out why but this description from Marc does a good job of summing some feelings up.
“Glass seemed to be somewhat of a monoculture. This makes sense: everyone in the app is rich enough to own an iPhone, probably also owns an expensive dedicated camera, a laptop (probably a MacBook) capable of editing them, and has enough discretionary income to pay a monthly subscription to a social media platform.
When you are a child, you dream of huge, almost magical things happening in your life. The future is filled with so many, almost endless, possibilities that all those fantasies and aspirations don’t seem so hard to achieve. Yet for some reason all of that magic seems to fade as you get older, and you have to start being a bit more realistic, but it's really boring.
It’s a bit of a Meme now that all children want to be famous before they know what they would like to be famous for.