Keep Knowledge Flowing
New books and learning courses are endlessly alluring. At the start of each book or each new course is that promise: Complete this and you’ll be awesome at your wildest or most practical dreams here. Maybe you’ll just be more…
Creativity
Creativity is a subject I’m rather passionate about. Rather than maintain separate blogs this year, I’ve decided to pull more information here, but I still want to focus heavily on creativity and innovation – especially in these radical times of change. Some of the biggest shifts in our collective history have come from eras of hardship transitioning into something new. We are at that point now, where the something new is changing in front of us everyday.
We’ll look at creativity in terms of art and writing, but we’ll also look at creative thinking, which applies to every aspect of our lives. I look forward to expanding on these topics in 2013.
Keeping the Creative Flow Uninhibited
How do you get around the pressure of creating? We all have our own pressures that we have to overcome when trying to make something. What’s yours? For me, my pressures are largely based on finding the time to create…
Workaholism – An Inelegant Solution
Is workaholism the path to greatness (a.k.a. the 10,000 hours to expertise), or is it time poorly spent? We don’t praise workaholism outright, but we sure do hint at it. Through the email newsletter The Bookshelf, we recently discussed the…
Take a Month Before Starting Something New
Photo by Philip Chapmen-Bell We’re all ready to start something new, right? Well… not so fast. So I’ve made my New Year’s resolutions like many other people, but most of my resolutions are to simply focus on some of the…
Making a Difference: More Rules or More Inspiration?
In the wake of terrible tragedies, the United States is faced with difficult decisions in the rules that it makes. The government must balance the personal freedoms of its people with the desperate need for safety. To say it’s a…
APE by Guy Kawasaki: An Exahustive Self-Publishing Guide
If you’re interested in self-publishing, or if you have a book on Amazon or any of the other ebook retailers that you’re not quite happy with, then you need to check out APE: How to Publish a Book (affiliate link)…
Pacific Rim: Don’t You Just Love Viral Marketing Campaigns?
I love that marketing has changed in the past decade. Specifically, I love the way that a few movies choose to promote themselves in ways that entice viewers to uncover more instead of just blasting audiences with the same TV…
Being Thankful by Celebrating our Uniqueness
This is a post that’s been brewing in my mind for a while, and Thanksgiving seems like a great opportunity to share it. (For the non-U.S. readers, don’t worry. This post still applies.) I had the chance to travel to…
10 Top Quotes on The Value of Innovation
Merriam-Webster defines the word “innovation” in two ways. the introduction of something new a new idea, method, or device The word can either refer to the process of coming up with something new, or it can refer specifically to the…
Inspiration Is Perishable
I finally read Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier, the team behind the software company 37signals. It’s a book that’s been on my list for a long time now, and now I feel I need to reread it again…