Creativity
My information consumption philosophy is simple:
(1) It must have a long shelf life.
(2) It must have taken considerable effort to create.
With these two principles, you can cut out most of the junk from your information diet.
Nick Maggiullix.comBig ideas are usually simple ideas.
-David Olgilvy
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don’t bring forth what is within you, what you don’t bring forth will destroy you.”—Gospel of Thomas.)
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
While you are at it, make your art. Do the stuff that only you can do.
jamesclear.com • "Make Good Art" by Neil Gaiman
In 1985, Nike held a 24-hour shoe design contest. Nike was struggling. Their stock dropped 50%. They had to lay off people. Adidas, Converse, and Reebok were all selling more shoes. So in a panicked attempt to find creative talent, Nike held a shoe design contest. The winner was a corporate architect named Tinker Hatfield. “Two days after the... See more
You’re often most creative when you’re least productive.
-Austin Kleon
Our bias is to always add more. More rules, more procedures, more code, more features, more stuff. Interdependencies proliferate, and gradually strangle us. Systems want to grow and grow, but without pruning, they collapse. Slowly, then spectacularly.
When a piece of trash drifts across the beach, it is our duty to pick it up so the next person can... See more
When a piece of trash drifts across the beach, it is our duty to pick it up so the next person can... See more
stephango.com • What Can We Remove?
“A friend challenged Dr. Suess to write a children’s book using only 50 unique words. His answer to that test would become the best selling book of his prolific career, Green Eggs and Ham.
Constraints can force us to be more creative by pushing us to do more with less.”
-from Non Obvious Thinking by Rohit Bhargava and Ben DuPont.