Creativity
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Creativity
surprise may be a better proxy for creativity than quality. A polished output is not necessarily creative, but a surprising one might be. Yet even surprise is not enough if it is merely random. Peak creativity seems to require a rarer combination: novelty that has intention.
This is why the real disagreement about AI and creativity is often not... See more
This is why the real disagreement about AI and creativity is often not... See more
Judith Dada • Creativity After AI
The text actually moves back and forth between all of these. Few novels pay less attention to the rules of fiction than Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance . For that reason, it just might be the strangest travel book ever written—because most of the journey happens inside the narrator’s head.
But maybe that’s part of the story too. Pirsig... See more
But maybe that’s part of the story too. Pirsig... See more
Ted Gioia • The Real Story Behind 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'
Successful artists, musicians and other creatives have a similar dilemma. Their fans want more of what they did to reach their success. They want them to play their old songs, paint the same style paintings, and make the same kind of great movies. But in order to keep improving, to maintain their reputation as someone creative, the artists need to... See more
Kevin Kelly • Hill-Making vs Hill-Climbing
There’s a point in your work/career/journey when you reach an escape velocity of sorts from your peers and the world around you. What you offer to others is just different enough that you become your own category of one: nothing but you will do. Not better, different.
kottke.org • Don’t Be the Best. Be the Only.
Save everything that appeals to you. Figure out why it appeals to you. Then apply those lessons to your own work.
Nathan Baugh • How to Steal Like an Artist
Creativity is just…