DESIGN AS A GARDEN

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Creative work can be approached like tending a garden: cultivate favorable conditions, return consistently, encourage unexpected cross-pollination, and protect fragile ideas before judging them too quickly. Pruning unnecessary work and deliberately leaving room for play can be as important as producing more, while not every experiment needs an obvious payoff. Ideas also benefit from periods of inactivity and patience, making it useful to distinguish between moments that require greater effort and those that simply require more time.