Mike Schmitz

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559 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 25 Jul

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Creator News Live: Discussing the latest tools, tips, and tactics with industry experts, innovators, creators, and storytellers · AI Is a Dial, Not a Switch (How Creators Win in the AI Era) · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

I feel like when it comes to creativity, you have to be willing to hold these things lightly and you have to be willing to walk away from it if you realize, actually, this isn't the thing.

That's really hard and really scary when you don't have something else to fall back on, which is why I describe my Obsidian Vault as like a greenhouse for my ideas.

And that's where the different elements of the creativity fly will happen.

The only thing that doesn't happen in Obsidian really is that capture phase.

I capture things into drafts, and the main reason is that drafts is everywhere for me.

I've got it on my Apple Watch, so I can even dictate something if I'm out for a run.

Obsidian's quick capture is not really quick.

It takes a while for the vault to open.

By that time, I may not jot anything down.

So I want zero friction when I am capturing things.

If I think something is at all a remote possibility, there's something here, I'm gonna capture it.

But then I'm gonna go through and I'm gonna curate that and that's why that inbox has to be separate from where the rest of the stuff happens.

I go through that drafts inbox about once a week and I look for the things that are still resonating and I bring them over.

I estimate that about 90% of the stuff that I capture

After I get some distance from it, I'm like, ah, there really isn't anything there, and I just delete it.

I'm not worried about maybe it was something valuable.

I believe that if I'm constantly chasing my curiosity, that if something is really valuable, it's gonna come back to me.

I'll stumble upon that idea again, because I've always got that,

that open loop.

That's by the way, when you talk about the Creativity Flywheel, if you have that constant output, what it does is it primes the pump for recognizing what's actually valuable.

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