couldn't have made it up and uh it's called young radicals Lynn and I wrote the hilon and what I thought was going to be a brief and heavily caffeinated break from writing young radicals the caffeine part turned out to be right uh we only had six months to write the book that you're holding uh Lynn to annotate his lyrics and me to write the chapters but at the end looking back on it I see that it
exclamation points. Everything about him was accelerated, his eating, his thinking, his climbing, his praying. He was caffeinated enough.
to those two things like the dictator like plots of Three's Company and the sleepy and caffeinated writers and both of those being kind of like in one the authority is plot and in the other the authority is like your waking conscious more boring self so those are the two images we went to hold on to and then I
So back then, we would sit in the room every day at a piano, we would work for a couple hours, then we would have Chinese food, then we would have coffee, then we would get over-caffeinated-- And Lynn would say, don't eat the egg roll, because I would immediately fall asleep. You know, I got to know, don't eat the egg roll.
And we'd go and be like, all right, do they want the darkest coffee? Or do they want the most caffeinated coffee? And we were like, well, wait a minute.
Yet, we've come to a point where we completely depend on that adrenaline. That's why we've over-caffeinate. That's why we over-schedule ourselves.
He's not here. He was involved. For those of you who are not caffeinated up, I'll read this out. "The histories of communication--" Get it? Communication. Internet. Vint Cerf.
he's got this work ethic that just never stops and and he's kind of a major poit New York everyone is just perpetually caffeinated you know I you know pot
disprove the essential Point look everything in American life is divisive our fast food choices are politicized our choice of hot caffeinated beverages is supposed to reflect something about our souls the music we listen to the movies we like to see it's not disqualifying to say that Hamilton is
And I think that something really interesting happened, which is I think the name National Novel Writing Month, that third year when, again, there are time people they don't know that this event is run by this group of over caffeinated idiots that don't have any idea what they're doing, and they see this name, right?
Get that beginning, get that middle, and get that end down on paper, and at that point, you really know what the book is about, And I wish everybody an amazing and over-caffeinated November getting the first draft of that story written.
greatest ideas or at least he claims that that was sort of his method of coming up with new ideas and I thought it kind of parallels the caffeinated creativity method which i think is best exemplified by the French writer Balzac who again you know it's
okay just standing I'm I'm happy I'll be you're really all right yeah over there and I'll I'll come back okay all right so so and you all are relaxed and adequately caffeinated to see a few PowerPoint slides okay I just want to start out by saying that um Andrew and I do apologize for being a bit overdressed for this event uh looking out at you
if you're under 22 apparently you just hate everything is what I've learned and I kind of think that this um both the sort of sleepy method and the caffeinated method are both ways is saying like I want to be in control of this project but it will be boring and bad if I am so I want to not be in
They keep people physically and mentally healthy. We're gonna sell this beautiful office and give you Starbucks cards, keep you caffeinated up for productivity, and that's it.
own method but really my own method being like what I've tried to steal from other people that I like and I just like slowly developed a half of a theory that there's sort of two kinds of creativity what I call caffeinated creativity and sleepy creativity and you guys may find that you fall into one of the two categories and my model of Sleepy
Like, I was on the Today Show twice. Everybody's nervous, it's real early in the morning, you're heavily caffeinated, and you're in front of a plate glass window, and all these people are, like, behind it