There’s this pollyannish notion that the most important thing to do when working together is stay positive and get along, to not hurt anyone’s feelings,” she says, “Well, that’s just wrong. Maybe debate is going to be less pleasant, but it’s always going to be more productive. True creativity requires some trade-offs.
From the Article “Group Think” in this week’s New Yorker.
And let me add an “amen” to that.
This is the only way I’m ever able to get any kind of writing done at all. Stories have a hard time forming when you’re constantly distracted by the glittering pixels of the vast sea of webbyness ever stretching before you. It’s worth every penny.
And with that- Goodbye interwebs for awhile. I shall now happily disembark from the Information Super-highway for the evening.
Sincerely,
Jason Tatum.
Probably 99% of the things that I write on a weekly basis don’t make it to this blog. I like to use this as a bulletin board of things that I like or find beautiful. Most of it isn’t mine at all and I’m probably in breach of many a copy write law. The point is is that I do get some work done sometimes in my life. Sketches and talks and essays and articles and even a book (though so slowly) are coming together every week. But I don’t share most of it. Mostly because I have people in my life who I share that with because they have chosen me and stuck with me through long and lean years. They are deep wells and I trust them with the work that I do. I don’t think it’s prudent to just throw everything up here for the wandering eyes of the internets.
But, if you ever want to see some work, then I’d love to share. I post bits of longer works from time to time, but mostly I want to share it with the people I trust the most or at least care enough to ask for it.
And I am so thankful for those people. I am so thankful for people who believe in me enough to read the things that I put together on paper. Without them then I would scarcely be able to write a word.
