One of the most visited posts on this blog is titled “The Problem(s) with Linear Thinking“. That one post makes up for a good amount of monthly visitors from people doing a google search for ‘linear thinking‘. Do that search yourself and you’ll see that post in the top 3 (if not #1).
Why is this [...]
I just finished reading The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything and have to say that I really enjoyed it.
While the book spends a little too much time in the realm of ‘celebrity worship’ (i.e., there are LOT of celebrities that have found ‘the element’ apparently), the book is still a very good read.
The [...]
You’re doing it wrong!
I hate when people tell me that.
Who are they to tell me how to do something?
OK…OK…there are times when ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ make sense. Driving a car. Flying a plane. Connecting electric lines. Things like this do have right and wrong ways.
If I’m taking a picture, who’s to tell me what is [...]
Mark McGuinness over at Lateral Action has a great post titled “Is Lateral Thinking Necessary for Creativity?“…this post is a well thought out argument against the idea that lateral thinking is required for creativity. I won’t go into the details of Mark’s post but I wanted to highlight this passage:
He [Robert Weisberg] argues that the [...]
My wife just asked me what my resolutions were for 2009. I normally don’t do ‘resolutions’ but the question, and the many blog posts about resolutions, started me thinking.
What is it about the changing of the ‘year’ that gets people into the mindset of making resolutions to do things differently in the ‘new year’?
Well…being the [...]
