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Wrangling Words: Microsoft Word and Creative Thinking
This article explores the evolution of Mac-based word processing programs to gain insights on why popular applications often turn into walled gardens that constrain creative thinking.
Software Tools, Creative Thinking, and Craft Workflows
Our lives are mediated by technology, but there’s there’s not much discussion about how “general purpose” software tools, such as word processing applications, influence our creative thinking and work.
The Room Where It Happens
This article is a montage—four short posts on the concept of “inner space,” aka the room where “it” (our creative life) happens. On to safe spaces, memory palaces, vaccines and video projection mapping...
Creativity, Mind-Wandering, Flow, and Deep Play
Understanding and nourishing your capacity for creative thinking is an essential skill. This article explores mind-wandering, flow, and deep play: three tools that will help you enhance and renew your creativity.
Recharge Your Creative Thinking with Rest
Rest is not the opposite of work—rest and work are partners. This article introduces the seven types of rest you need to fully recharge your creativity. It’s part one of a two part series on creative resilience.
Your Personal Annual Review
An annual “year in review” highlights your recent accomplishments, provides insights into lessons learned in the past year, and sharpens your focus on your goals for the year ahead. Try my new annual review workbook!
Your Annual Productivity System Review
Your productivity apps can reinforce positive habits or lock in unproductive behaviors. This post helps you identify productivity sinkholes and evaluate the individual applications in your personal productivity toolkit.
Invent and Wander: Ideas on Innovation from Jeff Bezos and Amazon
Amazon.com has done something rare in business: they’ve simultaneously built successful businesses in several very different categories. They’ve developed a model of creating and nurturing ideas that’s worth looking at and learning from.