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Once again, Daisy’s little sister eloquently illustrates my life with pinpoint accuracy.
Previously: Always be cookie-ing
Most days end feeling like you didn’t accomplish anything. And you’re not going to accomplish anything tomorrow. And you’re in big trouble cause you’re really stuck. That’s what most days are like for me. But what’s really happening is that during those frustrating days the thinking is going on, even if it doesn’t much feel like it.
— Aaron Sorkin on his writing process in a video interview with DP/30
Previously: Sorkin’s 88th best
Chris is always working. Except when he’s sleeping or eating cookies.
— Daisy’s 10-year-old sister
- Jill: accurate, except I've rarely seen you sleep
- Me: Sleeping cuts into my cookie eating time.
Evening at co-working space in downtown Portland, Oregon
After working with Justin at GitHub’s office. Thanks for letting me steal some desk space!
At the Rice, Noodle, Fish book launch in New York
Roads & Kingdoms team from around the world, together in New York
The books
Whiskey from Balvenie
Chef Toshio Matsuno and team from Kyoto’s Tempura Matsu
Photos by Shane Carpenter / ReadyLuck
Previously: Booked travel
“The world needs needs Roads & Kingdoms. It needs this book.”
— Anthony Bourdain
In 2012, I helped launch Roads & Kingdoms. The rest of the team did all the hard work: they published the best food/travel/culture writing, they won awards to back up that statement, they brought on Anthony Bourdain as a partner and investor, and now they’re releasing their first book with HarperCollins.
I’m still trying to figure out how the hell Douglas Hughmanick found the time to design every stunning page of this book — in between buying a house, having his first child and growing a successful design agency. Doug, whatever unholy scheme you’re taking part in to obtain unlimited energy… I want in.
There’s a lot that happens with collaboration in movies and TV that is phenomenal. But at the same time, there’s some perfecting that goes with it. You all get together and work on stuff and make it perfect, but sometimes perfect looks the same as other perfect. [...] When you write from your gut and let the stuff stay flawed and don’t let anybody tell you to make it better, it can end up looking like nothing else.
— Louis C.K. in an interview with Pitchfork
You know the cliché: You’re out on the town, you’re doing drugs, you’re drinking, you’re running on the walls, you’re pissing on the fireplace. It’s a cliché. Often you run into artists who live that life—and at one point, you find out that they’re not actually producing that much art. They’re living the life of the artist without the work.
— Dorthe Nors in What Great Artists Need: Solitude
It took seven years from the time I wrote Mad Men until it finally got on the screen. I lived every day with that script as if it were going to happen tomorrow. That’s the faith you have to have.
— Matthew Weiner in an excerpt from Getting There: A Book of Mentors by Gillian Zoe Segal
Previously:
“When I wrote the pilot of Mad Men, I was saying, I’m already successful, why am I not happy?”
We’ve been at this a long time, but damn.
Two things I never imagined I’d be able to say: Today marks 12 years of business for a tiny freelance design studio I started when I was 17-years-old. And I’m writing this from Taiwan.
We have a paradox about progress: many people complain about how stuck in the past their organizations are, yet point to the lack of adoption of remote work as an indicator of it’s uselessnesses, rather than a reflection of their organization’s fearful grip on the status quo.
— Scott Berkun in his article Why Isn’t Remote Work More Popular?
Part of my testiness is that I feel I make 50 compromises a day. When people come to me and say, ‘Why can’t you compromise?’ I’m like: ‘What are you talking about? The fact that we’re having this conversation means that we’ve compromised.’
— David Fincher on dealing with movie executives in an interview with NY Times
Previously: “I guarantee I’m going to make a good movie out of this…”
Making the least of my business network since 2006.
Errands are so effective at killing great projects that a lot of people use them for that purpose. Someone who has decided to write a novel, for example, will suddenly find that the house needs cleaning. People who fail to write novels don’t do it by sitting in front of a blank page for days without writing anything. They do it by feeding the cat, going out to buy something they need for their apartment, meeting a friend for coffee, checking email. “I don’t have time to work,” they say. And they don’t; they’ve made sure of that.
— Paul Graham in his essay, Procrastination