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The Muse Is a Bad Business Model

8 Aug 2026 1 minute read 1 comment Patrick Larsen $0.09

If your creative output depends on inspiration showing up, you don't have a process. You have a gamble. Let me push back on one of the most beloved ideas about creativity: the muse. The story that you wait, inspiration arrives from somewhere beyond...

How Twenty Years of Designing for the World’s Biggest Stages Actually Started: In a Utah Scene Shop

26 May 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.08

The first set production designer Patrick Larsen built was for a theater in Utah that seated a few hundred people. Regional productions. Tight budgets. An MFA from UC San Diego and a Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Award already in...