Most creative work does not start with a screen full of pixels for me. It starts with digging. Se...

Most creative work does not start with a screen full of pixels for me. It starts with digging. Se...Most creative work does not start with a screen full of pixels for me. It starts with digging. Se...

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Rob Sicat

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• Oct 20

Most creative work does not start with a screen full of pixels for me. It starts with digging. Searching for a feeling I cannot explain yet.

I usually find it in music. Small loops. Chopped samples. Little blends that unlock a mood. That is my sketchbook.

Most ideas do not land. You make them anyway. Something useful always shows up if you keep going.

The hard part is sharing before you know what something is. We wait until it feels perfect. But perfect is a trap. It slows you down. It kills curiosity.

So this is not perfect. It is a sketch of an idea I have been carrying around for a while. I do not know where it goes from here. Maybe nowhere. Maybe somewhere good. Either way I am having fun.

People post the final cut. This is the part before that. The quiet work. The messy middle. The honest part.

More soon. Or not 😀