Creative thinking rules
A few folks forwarded different versions of this to me: hi+low had the image, but teczo had the writeup.…
Category: Creative Thinking
Do constraints help creative thinking?
Can you be creative without constraints? It’s a tricky question. Creative people everywhere complain that they don’t have enough…
What to do if the world hates your idea
One of my most popular blog posts ever, how to write a book, generates tons of comments and e-mail…
Who I write for
The ever creative ze-frank is currently asking a great question about creative process. From his current post: When you…
Is Google ‘white bread for young minds’?
The Times Online has a short piece about the dangers of Google dominance for education, called White bread for…
Speaking in Vancouver BC, Tue 1/22
I’ll be at VanUE, the Vancouver UX chapter, speaking about creative thinking hacks. Here’s the excerpt: Creative Thinking Hacks…
What is your dangerous idea?
The folks over at Edge annually pick an interesting question and let leading scientists and notables offer short essays…
When genius bombs
Thanks to everyone who sent in articles on geniuses in response to my how to be a genius essay.…
Ask Berkun (Friday mailbag)
I get lots of questions and suggestions for things to write about during the week. And while the forums…
New essay: how to be a genius
Genius is one of those tricky words that gets used often, without anyone knowing quite what it means. Well,…
Book review: A Whole New Mind
If you write about innovation or creativity there are certain books people will continually tell you to read. I’ve…
How to pick a name
It seems I’m not the only one dealing with name changes. Guy Kawasaki had two recent posts on picking…
The future of the laptop: designed by kids
Amy Tieneman at CNET wrote about a school project, where kids design, and play with, their own paper based…
It’s Novel writing month: join NaNoWriMo!
This Thursday marks the beginning of national novel writing month – That’s right. A bunch of crazy people write…
Why you should be bad at something
I read an NYT article recently about The Really Terrible Orchestra. Their goal, in their own words, is as…
New essay: Creative thinking hacks
Here’s a short, fun, hack-centric essay on creative thinking. It’s loosely based on the course I taught recently at…
In defense of brainstorming
I’m no brainstorming zealot – there are many ways idea generation techniques out there and they all have their…
The best creative thinking books
Between teaching a course on creative thinking at UW, and writing a book on innovation, I’ve read dozens of…
Conversations about creativity
There’s a great series of short interviews with creators over at cecil vortex. Conversations about creativity. Includes interviews with…
Scolidays – 2006 (Custom holidays)
A few weeks ago I mentioned I’ve taken the egotistical but interesting step of creating my own holidays: called…