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Adam Moss

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264 total appearances

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Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

i had never written a book before and i was really scared of writing it's harder than it looks it's so hard unlike you i never wanted to be a writer i would never have left magazines for writing but i did leave magazines at a certain point because i just felt that i didn't want to be a boss anymore I started to write this book, and I was just a terrible, terrible, terrible writer, really.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

i had never written a book before and i was really scared of writing it's harder than it looks it's so hard unlike you i never wanted to be a writer i would never have left magazines for writing but i did leave magazines at a certain point because i just felt that i didn't want to be a boss anymore I started to write this book, and I was just a terrible, terrible, terrible writer, really.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

And I had to teach myself. I had to use my editor head. At first, my editor head recognized that it was terrible but didn't have any solutions in mind. And then over time, I just began to strip it of its ridiculous ornamentation. Was that all by yourself, though, or did you go to people for it? No, I did that most of myself.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

And I had to teach myself. I had to use my editor head. At first, my editor head recognized that it was terrible but didn't have any solutions in mind. And then over time, I just began to strip it of its ridiculous ornamentation. Was that all by yourself, though, or did you go to people for it? No, I did that most of myself.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

And I had to teach myself. I had to use my editor head. At first, my editor head recognized that it was terrible but didn't have any solutions in mind. And then over time, I just began to strip it of its ridiculous ornamentation. Was that all by yourself, though, or did you go to people for it? No, I did that most of myself.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

And then eventually, okay, I got to a place where I was happier as a writer, and also the work itself was better.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

And then eventually, okay, I got to a place where I was happier as a writer, and also the work itself was better.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

And then eventually, okay, I got to a place where I was happier as a writer, and also the work itself was better.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

Well, okay, let me, I created the book in the way that I created the book in order to assemble a community. I wanted the group thing, which I always loved in magazines, and I wanted a sense of a lot of people doing something together. And so I kind of And that invention was a whole part one, which was to engage all these artists in my project.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

Well, okay, let me, I created the book in the way that I created the book in order to assemble a community. I wanted the group thing, which I always loved in magazines, and I wanted a sense of a lot of people doing something together. And so I kind of And that invention was a whole part one, which was to engage all these artists in my project.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

Well, okay, let me, I created the book in the way that I created the book in order to assemble a community. I wanted the group thing, which I always loved in magazines, and I wanted a sense of a lot of people doing something together. And so I kind of And that invention was a whole part one, which was to engage all these artists in my project.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

Okay, Amy Sillman, show me how you made a painting, and we'll go from beginning to end. Okay, George Saunders, let's talk about how you wrote Lincoln and the Bardo, and David Mandel, how you wrote a joke, or Kara Walker, how you built this magnificent sculpture, or Stephen Sondheim, how you wrote a song.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

Okay, Amy Sillman, show me how you made a painting, and we'll go from beginning to end. Okay, George Saunders, let's talk about how you wrote Lincoln and the Bardo, and David Mandel, how you wrote a joke, or Kara Walker, how you built this magnificent sculpture, or Stephen Sondheim, how you wrote a song.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

Okay, Amy Sillman, show me how you made a painting, and we'll go from beginning to end. Okay, George Saunders, let's talk about how you wrote Lincoln and the Bardo, and David Mandel, how you wrote a joke, or Kara Walker, how you built this magnificent sculpture, or Stephen Sondheim, how you wrote a song.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

And that process was essentially me recreating a context of group creation because I thought of them as my collaborators, not as my subjects. So that was part one. Part two was writing. I described already what a hell that was. And was it hell because the collaborator is no longer there? I'm just alone in the room again. It's the aloneness.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

And that process was essentially me recreating a context of group creation because I thought of them as my collaborators, not as my subjects. So that was part one. Part two was writing. I described already what a hell that was. And was it hell because the collaborator is no longer there? I'm just alone in the room again. It's the aloneness.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

And that process was essentially me recreating a context of group creation because I thought of them as my collaborators, not as my subjects. So that was part one. Part two was writing. I described already what a hell that was. And was it hell because the collaborator is no longer there? I'm just alone in the room again. It's the aloneness.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

It's the dialogue in your head that was driving me completely crazy and why I never was a writer in the first place. I just found it unbearably lonely. And also, I didn't know how to act all the parts in my head where I could talk to myself and make myself better, which I didn't know how to do when it's different people, but I didn't know how to do in my own head.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

It's the dialogue in your head that was driving me completely crazy and why I never was a writer in the first place. I just found it unbearably lonely. And also, I didn't know how to act all the parts in my head where I could talk to myself and make myself better, which I didn't know how to do when it's different people, but I didn't know how to do in my own head.

Freakonomics Radio
616. How to Make Something from Nothing

It's the dialogue in your head that was driving me completely crazy and why I never was a writer in the first place. I just found it unbearably lonely. And also, I didn't know how to act all the parts in my head where I could talk to myself and make myself better, which I didn't know how to do when it's different people, but I didn't know how to do in my own head.