Austin Kleon

This is just a run of the mill 60s Smith Corona that I found in a thrift shop or something here in Austin.

But I started buying typewriters.

So I kind of had the typewriter.

And then it's like, well, what do you do with it?

A lot of people think, well, you want to think about what you want to do first.

And then you get the thing to help you do the thing that you want to do.

Whereas what I've learned as an artist is that

you kind of have to have the toys first.

And then you go, what am I going to do with this?

I think that way about bicycles.

So when people get into bicycles, I love riding my bike.

I'm not a cyclist.

I just like riding my bike, which is a very important distinction for me.

But people think, okay, when I buy a bicycle, I've got to know, okay, do you want a gravel bike?

Do you want a hybrid bike?

Do you want a mountain bike?

Do you want these things?

You got to figure this out.

And I'm like, what you need is a bicycle.

It doesn't matter what bike you get, because what happens is you're going to have the bike, you're going to ride it.