On Insecurity and Writing
A good friend mentioned he’d write more often if he dealt with his insecurities about writing. I look at…
Category: Creative Thinking
Do crazy innovations affect serious subjects?
Kestutis Gardziulis, one of my kickstarter supporters for Mindfire, asked this question: How do “crazy” innovations affect serious subjects?…
Quote of the week
American Masters recently released a two part documentary about Woody Allen (available online in U.S.), which I highly recommend if…
Innovation vs. mere improvement: how do you know what you have?
As part of my gift to some of my kickstarter supporters for Mindfire, I offered to write a blog…
Feedback without frustration (video)
Last month I spoke at Hive, an event for developers and designers hosted by AIGA and Microsoft here in…
Why Jobs is No Edison
An excellent and historically thorough comparison of Thomas Edison’s and Steve Job’s accomplishments: Some 130 years after Edison’s remarkable…
How Yoga destroys creativity: Niemann on working with ideas
Great little diagram from an excellent talk by Christoph Niemann. He’s showing an honest accounting of how his day…
Bruce Springsteen on Creativity
When I failed out of college and was stuck in Queens for a year, it was a mix tape…
Video: My lecture on future of Vaccines
Last month I spoke at Crucell, one of the leading organizations in the world for inventing vaccines. I gave a…
How do you invent vaccines? An interview
Last month I had the honor of being the opening speaker at an event at Crucell, an organization that…
The Paradox of Creative Confidence
To get off the couch and do something interesting requires confidence. The more interesting the thing, the more confidence…
Everything is a Remix
There’s a great series of short films on Creativity, called Everything is a Remix, by Kirby Ferguson. It explores…
Quote of the week
“Whenever I start working on a song, I immediately try to forget everything, to empty my hands and head…
Why Great Ideas Fail
I ran a session at FOO camp on Why Great Ideas Fail. The goal was to leave the room with…
How to ruin a design: the 9/11 Memorial
Update: After a great comment, I changed my opinion about this. I rarely use the word requirement – it’s…
Why you get ideas in the shower
[This is an excerpt from the Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest, completely irreverent guide to creativity] When…
Quote of the month
From an interesting series in The Atlantic on first drafts, and creativity: After the first pass, the painting is…
Innovation by Death: A Theory
One point from the often referenced, but rarely read, Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Kuhn, is true revolutionary progress…
The attack of the design weenie
Zeldman wrote, in an excellent post on Vocabulary vs. Storytelling: AFTER ALL THESE YEARS designing websites and applications, I…
Video of the month: best minute you will have
If you’ve wondered where I’ve been all this time I haven’t been posting, it’s safe to say I’ve wondered…