In the dark days of the pandemic, I read Walter Isaacson’s biography of Benjamin Franklin. Of the many quotes Franklin is famous for, one stuck out to me personally:
To cease to think creatively is to cease to live.
I think I am not alone in my personal struggle to remain creative over the past few years. What I’ve learned is that thinking creatively is hard work. It takes practice and perseverance to make creativity part of your life, and it’s frankly easier to just… not.
But that’s not the kind of life I want to live.
Creativity is something I’m hoping to reinvigorate in various parts of my life, but the area that is relevant to this blog is designing and creating indie apps. I am currently working on two apps in my free time:
Downstage (formerly Learn Your Lines) my line learner app.
Habituate, a routine timer app. (Still working on how to explain this one)
My goal is that working on these apps will instill a creative and entrepreneurial vigor in my life. Initially, I care more about enriching my life than making a bunch of money on these apps… but I’ll admit that making Learn Your Lines for many years and never charging for it was probably not my best decision.
This blog can play a key part of my personal goal to be more creative. My hope is to narrate my design process on this website, using writing as a tool to think more clearly and rigorously.
Much more to come.
