Marc Andreessen’s blog has an interesting little snippet from the book The Medici Effect boldly stating: Brainstorming Sucks. (I paraphrased for emphasis.) In a [1987 study, researchers] concluded that brainstorming groups have never outperformed virtual groups. Of the 25 reported experiments by psychologists all over the world, real groups have never once been shown to ...
Creativity
As promised, I had an IM interview with the highly-successful author Tim Ferriss. Tim (among his many incredible feats) released a book called The 4-Hour Work Week, and it has instantly become a mega-hit. Fortunately, I was able to catch up with the renaissance man for about a half an hour. While this may not ...
Here are some great links to check out in your free time this weekend. I found all of these over at the del.icio.us popular pages. It’s pretty interesting stuff… but then again would I point you to anything that wasn’t? :) Hipster PDA Templates “Inspired by Laurent Baumann’s brilliant Flat WhiteBezel icon set, the templates ...
Oddly enough, this makes sense. Typically, when one things of creative settings, one thinks of the open sea, or an endless skyline, or a blank canvas. All of these things have one common theme between them: endless possibilities. However, if we really need to think creatively, we almost need to have some boundaries. Why? Well, ...
Kudos to Kathy Sierra for a fantastic piece on the benefits of random. In today’s world of filters and predictability, a little random can go a long way. When the iPod Shuffle first came out, the ads were based on the theme, “Life is random.” I thought it was one of the lamest marketing spins ...
Hot on the heels of an article I wrote for Problogger about creativity this morning, I later discovered this little nugget about the benefits of Jazz and creativity. Dee Coulter, specialist in musical patterning and neurological development finds that the jazz of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and John Cage can lift the listener into theta ...
Merlin at 43F points us to a terrific (mac only) resource for writers: Scrivener. Scrivener is more or less a project management tool for writers. It allows you to: edit multiple documents create “corkboards” to storyboard and arrange thoughts use a fully-featured outliner track keywords (like themes) you write about full screen edit … and ...
For me, creativity has always come in fits and starts. I can’t control it, and I certainly can’t predict it. Creativity diarrhea, if you will. It just kind of happens. Steve Pavlina has a great article with 7 steps to maximizing creative output, a must-read for anyone serious about making the most of their creative ...
Making your right side of the brain work in tandem with your left side of the brain is hard work. Trying to mix creativity with procedures and orders usually goes together about as well as oil and water. For most people, the left side of the brain is what’s used most in our orderly, bullet-point ...
