Interviews with creatives and entrepreneurs. So many life lessons in here. Srinivas Rao is the best interviewer in podcasting. Gets the biggest stories instead of the biggest guests.

Ah. A proud nerd! This guys is nerding out on the most obscure topics. From different philosophers to the Japanese mending practice Kintsugi. And explaining paintings and art house movies. And he explains these topics very eloquently. A great way to get smarter without doing the 'heavy lifting' of reading. To get started check out his video’s on Morality, Ceci n’est pas une pipe or Pan’s Labyrinth.

Permission to fail. A great new year’s resolution. Art and innovation get better by making progress. They're not conceived by the initial idea or by thinking really hard about a solution. You need to try and thus often fail in order to eventually find that gem. This art exhibition doesn’t just show the eventual masterpieces but shows the mess-ups, rough drafts and preliminary sketches.

Creativity from 1959! And it holds up! Asimov was asked to join a think tank about missile defense systems. And quit it. But not before writing down the ways he saw people creating new ideas. He writes about how you make new connections. When you need interaction. When you need contemplation. Very good read!

Jon writes a lot of nice posts. But I decided to share this one. He shares 10 things about being a creator that are hard lessons to learn. So read this and be on the lookout! The 9th one spoke the loudest to me: Talent won’t mean anything if you don’t finish anything. “Nothing has to be perfect, just put it our there”. The funny thing is, the next point is to "make each creation count". I think that navigating that fine line between acceptance of the imperfection and striving for improvement is going to end up being another blog post soon.