The Three Gaps of Creativity: Effort, Skill and Quality
[This is an excerpt from the book The Dance of The Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to…
[This is an excerpt from the book The Dance of The Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to…
While researching The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest, completely irreverent, guide to creativity, I studied the history of…
[In the countdown to the release of The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to…
[This is an excerpt from The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity] Many…
The term Myths of Innovation has become popular on the web, but few articles on the subject link to…
I recently re-watched this excellent talk by John Cleese (of Monty Python) on creativity. The best parts are after the…
Growing up in NYC in the 1970s, with a mere 4 TV stations, any show in regular rotation on…
There’s a misguided trend in looking to architecture to explain why some groups of people are creative and others…
I’ll be in Chicago next week to keynote the 2012 STC Summit. Thanks to Brian Fitzpatrick, I’ll also be…
Ira Glass, of This American Life, interviewed his cousin, the famous composer Phillip Glass. Here are some excerpts on…
Great little diagram from an excellent talk by Christoph Niemann. He’s showing an honest accounting of how his day…
When I failed out of college and was stuck in Queens for a year, it was a mix tape…
Months ago I got a sneak preview of a book on two of my favorite things: the making of…
In a recent article on America’s declining ability to be creative, the author, Po Bronson, tries to explain why…
I’m always curious about how people in different fields work with their ideas. When I talk with painters, sculptors,…
One perk of an independent life – I’m more free than most to travel the world and see amazing…
A recent Businessweek article on 3M highlights the trade off between managing for efficiency and managing for creativity. I…
There’s a great series of short interviews with creators over at cecil vortex. Conversations about creativity. Includes interviews with…
Creative people like to create – no surprise there. But most people who create things struggle to get anyone…
I’m in NYC for Leading Design 2022, and I’m livebloging the event (taking notes in real time, updated for…