I'm so glad it was helpful...I am SO excited for your book! And I do as well haha but lately I've been a little looser (just throwing everything together and even adding salt to the dough right away) and I haven't been able to tell much of a difference. 🤔
Fantastic newsletter, Claire. Non-monetized hobbies are *such* an important part of having a creative job. The thing we used to do for fun / to learn / to scratch that creative itch now has dollars riding on it, and that can be such a joy-killer, sometimes! (I think this is also why so many authors have secret side projects!)
Yes yes yes to having hobbies that you don't try to monetize! I'm constantly flitting from one thing to another (my husband likes to joke about the craft supplies graveyard in our spare room closet), but one thing I've found is that other than writing, I don't want to try to monetize anything. I tried selling crocheted toys around eight years ago or so, and it took so much joy out of crocheting that I didn't pick it up again for nearly five years. I'm always encouraging other people--but especially parents--to find hobbies they do just for themselves, too.
Oh my gosh you said it out loud. I am right there with you on the complainy thing (I'm not midwestern, but I'm from rocky mountain folks who got kicked out of what was the country and had to start growing a life out of literal desert. I have it eeeeasy.) And I think there's just SOOO much unknown right now, in so many ways, but you're right. The human will out in the end.
Also...I need to be better at hobbies and letting my self just be chill abotu things. (Cue Leslie Knope's 'I AM SUPER CHILL ALL THE TIME.)
Just attended an AI for Small Business workshop last week. Many colleagues have been engaging for quite a while and I've just started to help with the wording of some business initialves or to help with the organization of a presentation. A few days before the workshop, I received a school email (from my university) announcing that they're taking community reactions to an updated Integrity policy regarding AI. The room of workshop participants were all in agreement that the policy, as written, was too broad. As you stated, it's here and it's not going away. I liken it to the calculator. What was once unacceptable use is now commonplace. I was issued a calculator for the CPA exam in the mid-90s where previously, the math was expected to be done on scrap paper and turned in with the paper exam booklets. As a business leader, I'm looking for employees with integrity. I'm curious how this will be accomplished with the use of AI. If schools insist on NOT engaging with it or even acknowledging it, how can the student know when it's appropriate to be used. I'm still figuring things out as is the rest of the world. The question I pose is how can AI be used to enhance learning and optimize engagement with the natural world? Tough to nail down. Maybe AI can help? 😉🤔
Does anyone else find that the men in their lives are the ones most often suggesting they monetize their hobbies? I've been practicing cake decorating because I'd love for my kids to look forward to fun cakes for birthdays and Sacraments, but I do NOT have the bandwidth to do it more often. But every single time my husband or brother or dad goes, "You know you could sell these!" Would I love money? Yes. Would it ruin it? Absolutely yes lol.
“Bring back hobbies” - I love this. My friends and I are all turning 30 this year and I think we are experiencing a hobby renaissance in the best way. Some are buying used cameras on eBay and some are taking pottery classes and some are going rock climbing every weekend. My favorite conversations are about our various creative pursuits (and the fact that we aren’t necessarily “good” at them makes them all the more fun and low stakes, IMO!) 😊
This is SO good. And in the thick of launching books and proposing the next ones and finishing manuscripts, just what I needed.
I’d also like to tell you that my sourdough starter is still unnamed but I always put the flour in first 😜
I'm so glad it was helpful...I am SO excited for your book! And I do as well haha but lately I've been a little looser (just throwing everything together and even adding salt to the dough right away) and I haven't been able to tell much of a difference. 🤔
Fantastic newsletter, Claire. Non-monetized hobbies are *such* an important part of having a creative job. The thing we used to do for fun / to learn / to scratch that creative itch now has dollars riding on it, and that can be such a joy-killer, sometimes! (I think this is also why so many authors have secret side projects!)
Yes yes yes to having hobbies that you don't try to monetize! I'm constantly flitting from one thing to another (my husband likes to joke about the craft supplies graveyard in our spare room closet), but one thing I've found is that other than writing, I don't want to try to monetize anything. I tried selling crocheted toys around eight years ago or so, and it took so much joy out of crocheting that I didn't pick it up again for nearly five years. I'm always encouraging other people--but especially parents--to find hobbies they do just for themselves, too.
Oh my gosh you said it out loud. I am right there with you on the complainy thing (I'm not midwestern, but I'm from rocky mountain folks who got kicked out of what was the country and had to start growing a life out of literal desert. I have it eeeeasy.) And I think there's just SOOO much unknown right now, in so many ways, but you're right. The human will out in the end.
Also...I need to be better at hobbies and letting my self just be chill abotu things. (Cue Leslie Knope's 'I AM SUPER CHILL ALL THE TIME.)
lol I am also a Leslie Knope--CHILL WITH A SPREADSHEET
Just attended an AI for Small Business workshop last week. Many colleagues have been engaging for quite a while and I've just started to help with the wording of some business initialves or to help with the organization of a presentation. A few days before the workshop, I received a school email (from my university) announcing that they're taking community reactions to an updated Integrity policy regarding AI. The room of workshop participants were all in agreement that the policy, as written, was too broad. As you stated, it's here and it's not going away. I liken it to the calculator. What was once unacceptable use is now commonplace. I was issued a calculator for the CPA exam in the mid-90s where previously, the math was expected to be done on scrap paper and turned in with the paper exam booklets. As a business leader, I'm looking for employees with integrity. I'm curious how this will be accomplished with the use of AI. If schools insist on NOT engaging with it or even acknowledging it, how can the student know when it's appropriate to be used. I'm still figuring things out as is the rest of the world. The question I pose is how can AI be used to enhance learning and optimize engagement with the natural world? Tough to nail down. Maybe AI can help? 😉🤔
Good article! Creativity is important
Does anyone else find that the men in their lives are the ones most often suggesting they monetize their hobbies? I've been practicing cake decorating because I'd love for my kids to look forward to fun cakes for birthdays and Sacraments, but I do NOT have the bandwidth to do it more often. But every single time my husband or brother or dad goes, "You know you could sell these!" Would I love money? Yes. Would it ruin it? Absolutely yes lol.
Also, have you read Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (trans. Nunnally)? Just starting it, but I already highly recommend.
“Bring back hobbies” - I love this. My friends and I are all turning 30 this year and I think we are experiencing a hobby renaissance in the best way. Some are buying used cameras on eBay and some are taking pottery classes and some are going rock climbing every weekend. My favorite conversations are about our various creative pursuits (and the fact that we aren’t necessarily “good” at them makes them all the more fun and low stakes, IMO!) 😊
Yes--it is good for us to be bad at stuff! I think that all the time!