Rick Rubin: What Jay-Z Did in 30 Minutes Left Me Speechless!

“ways. And I thought, hmm. Now, the old me, pre-creative act me, would have laughed and moved on with my life. And one of the things that I learned through working on the creative act, one of the things it talks about a lot, is we're given information all the time around us.”

“more willing to support that thing over time. In your book here, The Creative Act, a way of being, you talk about the things that block creativity: thoughts and habits not conducive to the work.”

“It's the same. It's all the same. And that's why the creative act started with this idea of how to make things. And it turned what I realized through writing the book is it's how to be in the world. That you either live your life to allow these things to happen or you don't.”

“And it's the kind of book that every time you read it at different points in your life, you will read an entirely different book. And this was the inspiration for the way of code. And the way of code is essentially an adaptation of the DAO for vibe coding.”

“And for some reason, it seems like the universe wants us to know about this. It's what I talked about, paying attention and about the way of code. Like, it was a ridiculous thing. It was indefensible. But I listened to this feeling.”