Study enough information theory, and it will start seeming obvious on a gut level that a library containing all possible books has less information in it than a library containing one book.
So.. we should just think about doing our work and not actually do it. Because imagining, and not reaching the finished product, is the most fun? Uh.. right.<p>I like the implementation in his house, but it doesn't apply to business or creating things. In some ways, what he's done is created something by creating nothing - but very rarely does that occur elsewhere.
Awesome, awesome post. The great Ze Frank has a similar video [1] where he calls this "brain crack" (because your mind is addicted to the idea more than what you actually accomplish...or don't accomplish).<p>[1] <a href="http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/071106.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/071106.html</a>
Reminds me of John Cage's 4'33", a composition where no notes are played and instead the audience is expected to observe the sounds of the environment.
Because you end up spending your life with no memories other than a blank canvas, and because you won't stay alive with only a blank canvas.<p>"Happiness is only realized when it is shared." Communicating ideas without a few wrecked canvases never works.<p>As far as i know, most artists continuously start with blank canvases. The "wrecked" ones are the ones everyone buys to help the artist eat.
Frank Stella said (during a 1964 radio interview): "I knew a wise-guy who used to make fun of my painting, but he didn't like the Abstract Expressionists either. He said they would be good painters if they could only keep the paint as good as it is in the can. And that's what I tried to do. I tried to keep the paint as good as it was in the can."