Sometimes You Need to Draw Animals
summary
Quitting a Last.fm role after burnout leads to rebuilding creative practice around concrete habits: keeping a 750words journal, doing print side projects, gardening to restart the creative tap, and learning a new tool like the Wacom Inkling to force small prototypes. That workflow produces a real product—1.3 million jams posted to ismyjam—and recovers the ability to sketch, ship, and iterate, so the approach clearly works rather than remaining vague advice.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Welcome
- 3:55Maker’s block talk
- 7:22Burnout in tech
- 10:14Five techniques
- 17:39Habits for creativity
- 21:12Doing something different
- 24:41Codifying methods
- 25:23Draw animals
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