HeyJaredQuiet Growth Chronicles
Exploring the art of an ordinary, well-lived creative life 𖥔 Weekly essays on building a quiet business with steadiness, simplicity, and care.
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Should you actually start a second Substack? (my answer one year later) (opens the original)
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Starting a second Substack is one of those decisions that can look mildly unhinged from the outside and yet make your creative life make so much more sense from the inside if it’s the right choice for you. It was one of the best decisions I made for my creative work. It gave two very different bodies of work room to breathe and made me feel less creatively cramped. It helped both publications become more themselves. And over a year later, I would make the same decision again without much hesitat
What happens when your calendar is free but your creative self isn’t? (opens the original)
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The creative luxury of knowing what matters (opens the original)
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I think one of the greatest creative luxuries is sitting down at your desk and knowing exactly what deserves your attention.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="971" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qBAe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progres
How to have your most creative autumn yet (opens the original)
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11 oddly specific things I do to make creativity easier (opens the original)
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A few weeks ago, while going down one of my favourite rabbit holes (routines of great writers and creatives), I came across the story of Friedrich Schiller and his rotten apples. The 18th-century poet and playwright reportedly kept a drawer full of them underneath his desk because, somehow, the smell creatively stimulated him. One day, his friend Goethe (another writer) sat down at Schiller’s desk to make some notes while waiting for him to come home and was so overcome by the smell that he had
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