How disconnection boosts creativity

This week: how disconnection boosts creativity, how musicians make money, and more...

In this week's newsletter: how disconnection helps creativity, how musicians make money, and more... View this email in your browser Hey y'all, Book tour rolls on. Lots of airplane mode. Tonight: Seattle. Next week: Sacramento, Corte Madera (SF/Marin area), Boulder, and Denver. (Friends in San Francisco: I *might* do a last-minute pop-up signing at the Book Passage in the Ferry Building this weekend. I'll announce it on my Twitter and Instagram if it's gonna happen.) Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing this week:  How disconnection boosts your creativity. (An excerpt from Keep Going.)   I caught the Hilma af Klint exhibit at the Guggenheim while I was in NYC, and I couldn't believe how much some of her paintings reminded me of W.E.B. Du Bois's infographics. If you can't make the show, the catalog and the book collecting her notebooks are both worth a read.   Reading Robert Caro on researching his LBJ biographies made me want to get his new book, Working. (See also his interview with David Marchese.)   What it's like to grow up with more money than you'll ever spend. (I like Disney's idea of earning it in reverse.)   How indie musicians actually make money.   Why four-panel comics now dominate our screens. (Featuring Nathan Pyle's strip, Strange Planet.)    Oliver Sacks on smartphones, from his last essay collection, Everything in its Place.    New books from friends of mine: Clive Thompson's Coders (an excerpt, "The Secret History of Women in Coding" ran in the NYTimes) and Mike Monteiro's Ruined By Design.    Eye candy: Famous movie scenes borrowed from paintings.   Neil Gaiman on why writers need to pretend they're in Groundhog Day. Thanks for reading. If you like this newsletter and want to support it, forward it to someone who'd like it or, even better, buy them a copy of Keep Going! If you're seeing this newsletter for the first time, you can subscribe here. xoxo,  Austin Austin Kleon is the author of Steal Like An Artist and other books. Subscribe to this newsletter   Copyright © 2019 Austin Kleon, All rights reserved. My mailing address is: Austin Kleon 19885 Detroit Road Box #222 Rocky River, OH 44116 You're getting this email because you signed up for it at austinkleon.com. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. Amazon Affiliate links offset the cost of sending these missives. (And pay for diapers.)