be an artist

Ray Bradbury says intellect is a danger to creativity

Alan Moore says writing IS magic, evolved from paleolithic shamanism. Writer can and does change the world. You are your own most important instrument.

  • which writing do I think is good?
    • John Steinbeck’s East of Eden
    • CS Lewis: Four Loves, Mere Christianity, Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, his speech about the rings
    • Annie Dillard
    • 7 Powers by Hamilton Helmer
    • Nassim Taleb
    • Iain McGilchrist

“The tongue is a fire”

Naval Ravikant echoes the monopoly on being you (Scott Adams also talked about an intersection of skills. Epstein’s Range mentions generalists as likelier to discover new breakthroughs)