At the end of my project page, I list projects I admire. This is really 10% or so of the things I see that make me go wow, I wish I made that.
It feels so nice to be inspired by beauty and ambition to build something great. I feel at times you have a vague idea of something you want to build or may be you just feel a lack. You sit with this dissatisfaction. Mostly, it will dissipate. But other times, it will linger or keep popping up.
People tend to ignore it :[sidenote: I write about acting on your creative impulses here: https://barkata.com/posts/seize-the-moment/ ] Every now and then you come across something that feels inevitable like it always existed.
Just like the sub 4-minute mile, which was considered impossible until the record was broken. this led a quick string of repeats once people saw it was possible
Sometimes you just have to see it done to believe it’s possible. But ideally you shouldn’t wait for someone else.
> ▎ "we are the ones we have been waiting for"- June Jordan, “Poem for South African Women” (1978),