Complicated is easy. Simple is hard. But simple is much more valuable. We generate complication when we don't know, or can't face, what we're really talking about. For example, look at the (gigantic) weight loss industry. Here is about all there … [Continue reading] about Focus: Simple But Hard
Routine Inspiration
Creativity is attentional, not intentional. It's hard or impossible to intend to produce creative work and then have that just happen, because creative thought doesn't seem to take place in the part of the mind that makes plans. Instead, it works … [Continue reading] about Routine Inspiration
Inspiration, Creativity & Borrowing
NPR is doing a really interesting series called Intersections (you can listen online here): "The public often thinks of artistic inspiration arriving in a sort of thunderbolt moment of creativity. The truth is, almost nothing is created out of thin … [Continue reading] about Inspiration, Creativity & Borrowing
I Want Less And I’m Willing To Pay For It
Recently I wrote an article on Flow and musical instrument design, arguing that too many electronic musical instruments disrupt creative flow because their interfaces are poor and they emphasize features instead of user experience. It came out of … [Continue reading] about I Want Less And I’m Willing To Pay For It
Bungee Jumping With Technology
"When we try a new technology, the technology changes us. This pattern apparently goes back to the invention of agriculture, which led us to start living in cities (to store & trade crops), to invent writing (for tracking transactions) and... become … [Continue reading] about Bungee Jumping With Technology