I recently discovered Jonah Lehrer. His writing is sharp and perceptive: “…Why are corporations so fleeting?…Instead of imitating the freewheeling city, these businesses minimize the very interactions that lead to new ideas. They erect walls…
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The play of opposites
Light – Dark Hard – Soft In – Out Black – White Profit – Loss Afraid – Brave Against – For Apart – Together Better – Worse Complicated – Simple There’s a fine line that…
Automated thinking
You’ve automated your thinking. What now? The bicycle, automobile, bus, train, ship, airplane, and spacecraft have enabled humans to project themselves at increasingly longer distances in three-dimensional space. Another way to say that is that…
Your organizing device
An organizing device is an anchor. It could be a specific source of inspiration for any kind of creative work or business project. If you are practicing architecture, it could be a key landscape feature…
Sustained creativity
Sustained creativity requires one to: take breaks not to get comfortable be open to new ideas continually explore get out of your comfort zone seek out what you don’t know generate more ideas, many of…
Generalize and specialize
This selection from Kenneth Mikkelsen and Richard Martin’s The Neo-Generalist is a favorite and certainly insightful. It reinforces the idea that a generalist can also be a person that specializes in several different skills or…