How to create great work environments
(Note: In a series of posts, now called readers choice, I’ll write about whatever people submit and vote for.…
Category: Creative Thinking
How to write a book, part 2
A popular posts on this blog is how to write a book: the short honest truth with over 900 comments. It’s the…
The science of hunches?
Interesting article in the NYTimes about the significance of following hunches for U.S. Soldiers in Iraq. Among various stories…
Don’t be precious
Creativity is best studied creatively, and for me this means studying what the masters actually did. Not what we…
Creativity lessons from Rene Magritte
One perk of an independent life – I’m more free than most to travel the world and see amazing…
Job loss map (coolness & badness)
Found this great post from Slate’s Moneybox via Brady @ O’Reilly. I think Tufte would be happy. You can…
Being Popular vs. Being Good
“Plenty of what’s popular isn’t good, and plenty of what’s good isn’t popular” One of the grand confusions of…
Where do your ideas die? (With a bad illustration)
I’m stuck in the Vancouver airport, waiting for them to find a new plane. Hard to complain about waiting…
Live webcast, why designers fail (and what to do about it)
On Tue April 14th I’ll be doing a live webcast for UIE on Why designers fail and what to…
When your VP doesn’t understand your job
A common problem experts have is working for an executive who has no idea what they do. The trap…
Palm centro: follow up review
A few months ago I finally purchased a new cell phone, a Palm Centro, first in about 5 years.…
Where are the female geniuses?
I’m getting a bit of roasting over on Forbes.com for gender bias – there were exactly zero women mentioned…
How to visually capture a talk or presentation
One of my favorite things at Adaptive Path’s MX event this week was how they had designers assigned to…
How to be at genius – at Forbes.com
Up today is a tighter, leaner, slideshow enhanced version of an essay I wrote up on forbes.com called How…
Telling stories about telling stories
Krishna makes an interesting point on his thought clusters blog about professions that involve getting paid for talking about…
Why do designers fail? Interview w/Adaptive Path
Last year I gave a talk at UIE 13 on some research I’ve done into why designers fail. I’ll…
Failure: the secret to success (Honda & race cars)
Nice little video on failure and its role in success. It’s vaguely an advertisement for Honda, but its very…
New essay: How to be a free thinker
Are you free? I know I’m not. That’s why I write essays about being free, to freely show how…
Dr. Seuss, wicked constraints, and creative thinking
One interesting theme in the research I’ve done on creative thinking is the role constraints play in fueling creativity. Many…
Research on how to pitch ideas
This is informal research, but it sure raises some good questions (Why isn’t there a business school or psych…