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Creativity
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Events, Creativity
What a week…
I just finished another UX Week, this time here in San Francisco (a four-day event for user experience professionals put on by Adaptive Path. I co-chaired it with Peter Merholz.). It was exhilarating. It was also exhausting. I’ve got a bit of those post-event blues.
But, pouring the experience of others into my brain through a […] -
Honesty, Creativity
Happiness and Creativity
I was speaking to a friend this morning, a musician and songwriter who has been experiencing some depression. For her, this type of depression has been a long-time burden and she is taking some steps to get better. But, she pointed out, she is deeply afraid of losing her creativity to happiness. I knew exactly […]
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Tools, Creativity
SXSW talk: 10 tips for managing a creative organization
My co-worked Bryan Mason and I will be speaking at SXSW on Monday, March 11 at 3:30pm.
The focus of our talk is on tools and techniques creative professionals from other disciplines use to keep the juices flowing. We’ve talked to a number of people in different areas (theater, classical music, comedic writing, restaurants) and drawn […] -
Space, Creativity, Collaboration, Idealism
February House: Experiments in Communal Living
Imagine W.H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee holed up in an old boarding house in Brooklyn, working as hard and fast as they can to create as much new work as possible before the US enters World War II. Can you imagine the discussions? The arguments? […]
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Creativity, Workshops
Create: An Idea is a Combination of Other Ideas
Right on time… Scott Berkun has shared yet another great essay, this time on Creative Thinking Hacks.
Out of this essay, come to critical point:
an idea is a combination of other ideas.
I love the simplicity of this description. But there’s a catch: you must both be open to ideas then fearless about using them. Ah, the […] -
Definitions, Creativity
Definitions: Create
A wise woman I know has encouraged me to take on a beginner’s mind, and closely re-examine words I thought I knew. Looking up common words in the dictionary is a simple but powerful activity. Understanding actual meaning can be a powerful way to get clear around my work.
Today, I started with the word “create”.
Create
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Events, Creativity, Collaboration
Creativity, Collaboration, and Consensus in London
Yesterday, I promised to write about the six basics of teams from that Wisdom of Teams as they had worked in my experience with design teams. I am in the final days of preparation for UX Week so, while I intend to go through these, I don’t have as much time to dedicate this week […]
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Creativity, Idealism
Cultivate Your Barren Soil
“While a man, infatuated with the promises of greatness, wastes his hours and days in attendance and solicitation, the honest opportunities of improving his condition pass by without his notice; he neglects to cultivate his own barren soil, because he expects every moment to be placed in regions of spontaneous fertility, and is seldom roused […]
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Creativity
Keeping Your Creative Juices Flowing
Cecil Vortex, on Conversations About Creativity, interviews artists, writers, and others on their creative process. This month, he has an interview with visual artist Tucker Nichols, creator of Postcards from Vermont and the What a Day web site.
I pulled out some of the things Tucker, a self-supporting artist, does to keep his creative juices flowing:
Routine
Tucker […] -
Creativity
One Person’s Failure is Another Person’s Progress
Failure is relative.
For my friend Brandon, I was looking for quotes on the role of failure in creative work.
First, I found this definition in the dictionary:
Fail
be unsuccessful in achieving one’s goal,
be unable to meet the standards set by [whatever, whoever]
Then this in Scott’s book.:
“The dirty little secret—the fact often denied—is that unlike the mythical epiphany, […]
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