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charlene prince birkeland's avatar

This interview and your notes here are so refreshing in an online space where we see too much about building a niche for an audience. Thank you for sharing it with us!

Heidi Fiedler's avatar

Yes! This was like the opposite, prioritizing the personal experience of creating and experimenting.

Naman's avatar

It was totally insightful read, thankyou for sharing it with us.

I have written something on creativity, could you like to review my article?

https://naman311382.substack.com/p/is-creativity-a-need-or-merely-a?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=76nfqb

Heidi Fiedler's avatar

Thank you for introducing us! I am smitten. I've recently been playing with Notion and it feels like it's a digital zettelkasten that I will love more and more as I develop it.

Carolina Martinez's avatar

I'm loving this Quietly Public series. A lot of food for thought for my own practice. I still can't decide where or how to share my art though but I like the process of trying to find out.

Natalie Brite | DoGoodBiz's avatar

Their website is seriously SO COOL

SuddenlyJamie's avatar

My friend (and fellow Substacker), Lyns McCracken, introduced me to Kening’s work almost a year ago, and I was immediately enchanted. Thank you for this introspective and quietly inspiring interview. It comes as I am taking a few weeks off my usual writing and publishing schedule to reflect on the last two years working on this project. Kening’s way of luxuriating in her creativity feels like a perfect invitation for me. 💜

Ania Reiss's avatar

Thank you so much for this post and interview Carolyn! I am an introverted neurodivergent person, and yet I want to share my art and create connections and dialogue in social media spaces. But at the same time, I don't want to lose myself to please algorithms or other people. I need to read your other posts from the Quietly Public series.

Jessica Ramos's avatar

Yesss! I adore kening zhu’s work!

Denise Herman's avatar

I am loving these Quietly Public posts and thank you so much for introducing Kening Zhu! Her web world feels like medicine. I’m soaking in her ideas and feeling such…relief. And also excitement. Creativity and showing up online my own way? What a concept. And also? Carolyn, your work has had such impact

Denise Herman's avatar

Cut myself off—just to say, thank you for your useful, inspiring, quietly creative work!

Carolyn Yoo's avatar

Thank you Denise!!

Emily Wilson's avatar

A trailblazer is right! So cool to learn more about Kening. I discovered her through her episode on Off the Grid, and when I saw her website my mind. was. BLOWN. I could get lost for hours there (and I have done so)! I love her podcast too and how she flips traditional marketing/biz advice on its head. Great read Carolyn - and wonderful invitation to be our truest selves, share quietly, and inhabit our own worlds 🪐

darius/dare carrasquillo's avatar

i totally had both of you in the same associative pile in my brain already

Joshua Robinson's avatar

This is such a wonderful, inspiring series! ✨ I've recently started to feel like my creative process is more like an interconnected world than a series of discrete projects, and these posts have given me so much to think about. Thank you!! 😁

meredith kaye's avatar

Kening is the truth. currently taking one of her classes and her way of seeing is so incredibly potent, radical and life giving. so grateful to have found her work.

Carolyn Yoo's avatar

are you in digital abundance? hope you are having the most transformative experience with it!!

meredith kaye's avatar

i am. and truly, currently in mid-dismantling 😅. it's been phenomenal

Stephanie's avatar

Loved every second of this.

Adeline's avatar

The website becoming the only permanent home, then an infinity house, is such a good consequence of nomadism. Apparently the void just needed better architecture.