HeyJaredKeep the Flow
Keep the Flow is the weekly podcast that looks under the hood of the creative process to keep your creative engine humming.Hosted by Scott McLemore, a drummer and composer living way up north in Iceland.
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The Hacks Finale Is Really About Creative People (opens the original)
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I watched that finale and cried, which I wasn't expecting, and then immediately started trying to work out why. What I settled on is that the thing that turns Deborah Vance around isn't a person or a speech. It's an idea. She gets a joke, opens her little book, writes it down – and then has to sit with what that means about where she's going. I think that's the whole argument for a creative life. In here I get into Bill Frisell on always reaching, a Hannah Montana song my daughters wore out on r
What if you’re better at judging than enjoying? (opens the original)
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I bought a camera a few weeks ago, and it changed how I experience a day. I started noticing sounds, smells, the air, my stepfather's ancient dishwasher in Virginia. But the second I actually noticed that dishwasher, my brain immediately asked which one was better – his or ours. That reflex is what this episode is about. Somewhere along the way we started rating everything, and when that filter runs unchecked inside your own work it stops being taste and starts being the thing that keeps you fro
Is it better to think you're talented... or not? (opens the original)
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When I got my first set of drums, my parents thought I was a natural. I let them think it – it felt good. What they didn't see was the years I spent obsessed with drums before I ever sat down at a kit. This episode is about talent: why we're so drawn to the idea of it, why we quietly trust "naturals" over people who obviously worked (there's a Harvard study on exactly this that's hard to shake), and how believing my own talent cost me almost ten years of coasting. I get into Carol Dweck's fixed
The AI Coming for Your Creative Job Can Wait (opens the original)
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I've been carrying around a tiny bit of panic lately. This sense that I need to get everything done before the AI robots turn up and make it all pointless. I don't think I'm alone in that. In this episode I talk about what happened when I heard the tortoise and the hare brought up on Rich Roll's podcast, and then spent an hour stuck in a line at the recycling center in Reykjavík with nothing to do but sit there. I get into why I tell my drum students to slow down, why boredom is doing more for y
Every Creative Is Panicking About AI. He Isn't. (opens the original)
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I keep hearing the same fear on repeat: AI is going to hollow out creative work. I feel it too. I've got kids about to start college, and it keeps me up at night. Then I watched a talk by David Lee, the chief creative officer at Squarespace, who argues almost the opposite: that creativity is the only job left once the machines take the rest. Around the same time I heard the writer Dave Eggers on the Wild Card podcast say something I can't shake – that you're one of one, and handing your voice to
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