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The Fire Jar is a digital zine / newsletter that explores creativity, movement, and learning. It's about trying to approach life with curiosity, energy, and wonder.
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Expect a mix of creative kindling: Drawings, videos, short prompts, fun thought experiments etc. Refreshing questions and ideas. Hand-drawn illustrations.
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Along the way, we'll explore some of the common threads that make us human.
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The Fire Jar is edited by Jeremy Finch.
With help from many collaborators.
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Some topics I'm interested in :
- What skills and areas of knowledge are most likely to remain timeless, relevant, and evergreen, even as the world undergoes rapid change?
- How can mindful movement, exercise, and embodiment enhance our health and wellbeing - individually and collectively?
- How can creative outlets enable human flourishing?
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Background: I started this blog because I like making things, and because I wanted an accountability mechanism. It's been a great way to learn, get feedback, make friends, and develop new skills. I'm genuinely passionate about these topics!
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Here's the origin story (Dec, 2019).
And how it's been evolving, at 100 weeks.
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Core operating principles:
1/ Curiosity: Solicit feedback, often. Listen. Encourage interaction.
2/ Design: Treat people's trust, time, and brain-space as sacred.
3/ Balance: Mind-body, big-small, fast-slow, serious-silly etc.
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Plus, occasional cute animal drawings!
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Here are ten things I believe are true.
Calls for interaction and feedback.
Creativity is not a static product. An ever-evolving journey with no set outcome.
Unexpected treasures.
An invitation to pause and slow down to a speed that allows creativity to cut through.
Depth and breadth, depth and breath.
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2 / I think everyone can - and should - develop a creative practice.
This can take many different forms.
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4 / It is impossible to create and analyze at the same time.
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Our hearts move ahead of our minds.
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5 / Even best-laid plans can go awry.
It's good to play outside:
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It's ok to be bad at things.
You have to be ok with being bad to get better.
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13 / You're allowed to go back to move forwards.
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22 / Thinking Fast, and Slow seemed to play well.
I'd like to explore more in behavioral economics.
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Buster keaton is a filmmaking genius.
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This is a free drawing course.
And a one week self-care course.
This is a series about business. And business school.
- operations
- negotiation
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i got a lot of unsubscribes during the mba series. so i kinda gave it up. If there's only three things that you take away, know that:
- the best thing you learn in b-school is systems thinking
- graphs should always go up and to the right
- one should support every argument using three points
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Of all the business posts, the operations one was best recieved.
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Maybe you're interested in setting goals?
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My friend (kory) is a wise man.
Everyone wants to be heard. If I've learned nothing in my life, I've learned that it is so much more important at this particular juncture that I shut my friggin mouth than that I say one. more. thing.
As much as I want to raise my hand, I want to talk, I have something really powerful to say etc. It's just, like, shut up. This person is talking. When the balloon is deflated - when they've said everything that they need to say - then still don't say anything. Just let it end there."