How we work

"We're interested in the habits, rituals and small (and occasionally big) methods people and teams use to get their work done. And in the specific anecdotes and the way people describe their own relationship to their own work. Here's a list of some stories and habits. Not sure it is actually useful for anything. Do any patterns emerge across stories, other than the obvious stories of super-focus, super-dedication?

These examples are mostly "names" because the list so far is mostly from published sources, but everyone's stories and habits are interesting...

How we work:
(Newly added since 6 Dec 04: Autechre, Casals, Eco, Freud, Hodgkin, McNealy, Murakami, Omidyar, Pollock, Roth, and Doctorow + Gibson).

 

Ben Ainslie, sailor
Apelles, artist
Frank Auerbach, artist
Autechre, musicians
Francis Bacon, artist
J.G. Ballard, author
Walter Benjamin, writer
Ray Bradbury, author
John Cage, composer, artist
Santiago Calatrava, architect
Pablo Casals, cellist..."

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