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🎨 The future of creative work
Hi friend,
I’ve been thinking a lot about the changes I’ve been seeing across various creative industries. Almost all of my friends and community are creative professionals, and I’ve noticed that in this particular moment, there is a lot of shifting and pivoting happening. The people around me around figuring out a new way to work.
This constantly changing world is normal for folks that work for themselves, but it does seem like technology is playing a role in making change happen faster. For example, the life cycle of trends seems to be happening faster, and the ability to create content is faster, cheaper and at a scale means we have more supply of it than ever.
As I try to understand what’s going and what this means for the future of creative work, the one thing I’ve noticed myself doing is reaching out to community — from my friend and colleagues to our bookkeeping clients that are all running creative small businesses. These conversations are helping me make it all make sense. And one big takeaway I’ve seen is that the breakneck pace of technology only highlights how valuable these one-to-one human connections are.
1. 🧑🏽🤝🧑🏽 Why Cultivating Your Creative Community Is Essential with Bryce Dallas Howard (Weird Finance) In this episode of Weird Finance, Paco speaks with renowned actress and director Bryce Dallas Howard (@brycedhoward) about the challenges and opportunities in the entertainment industry, her work supporting emerging entertainment entrepreneurs through Nine Muses Entertainment, unrealistic expectations about financial success in Hollywood, creative mastery, the importance of personally defining success and why it’s essential to cultivate a creative community.
2. 🤔The Right Kind of Busy (Culture Study) Rethinking the cult of busyness.
3. 🔊 Full-time Job, Zero Formal Child Care (The Cut) Inside the hectic but cost-effective weekdays of the many working parents who have opted to keep winging it.
4. 🤓 A bookkeeping thing - What is a tax extension and is it right for you? (HYG Original)
5. 👛 The Stigma of New Money (Marie Claire) “People with old money are practically bred to navigate wealth culture. Old money is like a ‘tribe’ and to be raised with it brings an innate understanding of how that tribe operates, like how they gather resources and keep resources.”
6. ⭐ Everyone’s a sellout now (Vox) So you want to be an artist. Do you have to start a TikTok? “While social media hugely increased the number of people who pursued art, it didn’t increase the number of people who can support themselves financially by making it.”
7. 🔮 What Is In Store For 2024? My Predictions and Outlook On Creative Businesses In the New Year (The Hell Yeah Group) How the backdrop of our economy has changed, how technology has democratized the creative act, and what the implications are for monetizing creativity
8. 💡 The Labor of Inspiration (More to That) There’s a common belief that inspiration is fleeting, and that its arrival is largely unannounced. While you can set up elaborate rituals to encourage its arrival, you can’t command it to serve you. It’s akin to the rain dance: you can trick yourself into believing that water will fall once you shuffle your feet, but the rain doesn’t give a damn about your sense of rhythm. It will come when it comes.
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