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Two ways out of a wind tunnel 26 Sep 2012 | 08:42 am
There’s a great line in one of the episodes of “Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee” where Seinfeld says, “Remember when we were kids? Each car looked so different, so unique unto itself. This is just oa...
5 Creativity Killers: A Self-Defense Guide 13 Aug 2012 | 11:05 am
When people are presented with something that is original and unique they have a natural bias against it. In an article called, “Why Great Ideas Get Rejected” David Burkus describes some research that...
New job, new toys 13 Jun 2012 | 12:20 am
When I start a new job I indulge my mechanical pencil fetish by purchasing a new pencil and a new sketchbook. I love the feeling of a new pencil and a clean sketchbook. It matches my excitement and de...
I quit my job. 10 Jun 2012 | 06:27 am
There is a lyric that I haven’t been able to get out of my head for the past month or so. It says, “The opposite of love is indifference.*” This phrase hits me because it answers a question I have bee...
The Day Abstraction Died and the Quest for Perfection 19 Jan 2012 | 08:16 pm
There was a time when you drew pictures. With crayons and fat pencils you traced your world, oblivious to constraints that now stifle your creativity. There wasn’t a right or wrong way to draw, you ju...
The Pirate Club: Now Accepting New Members 11 Jan 2012 | 04:22 pm
Yesterday on the kitchen table was a newspaper. That in itself would be unusual given that I don’t subscribe to a newspaper, but this one was particularly different.The masthead of this paper said, “T...
The Cult of Lego, and the Genesis of Creativity 31 Oct 2011 | 05:27 am
I was recently included in a book called Cult of Lego. I am honored that my Lego camera continues to resonate with people six years after it made the rounds on the internet. Cult of Lego is a really i...
The Parable of the Thousand Dollar Nail 12 Apr 2011 | 05:10 pm
Squeak. Creeeeeek. Squeak. Every time Mr. Smith walked through his living room the wood floor would squeak. It drove him crazy. “I would pay anything to get this old floor fixed,” he told himself. He ...
Inspirational Videos Describing How Our Brains Work 29 Mar 2011 | 04:15 pm
It is fascinating to study how our brains work. Understanding what makes people do what they do opens the door to seriously powerful abilities. You can influence behavior. You can predict people’s act...
How to escape zugzwang 2 Mar 2011 | 07:01 pm
For the last week or so I have been thinking about the term zugzwang. Have you ever heard that word before? Zugzwang is created when you put someone in a situation where they are forced to move even t...
