Creativity What is high school for? Probably not what is required! In 2011, Seth Godin asked, What’s high school for? It was a prescient challenge to the status quo, that nearly 8 years later is more relevant than ever.
Creativity Steve Jobs' on Hollywood, Silicon Valley and his greatest achievement What if Steve Jobs' greatest achievement was not the success of Apple? What if it was conquering two industries that have very little in common? This is not well enough understood.
Creativity It's time to redesign the open plan office I work in an open plan office. Not one executive office, just a big space circled by meeting rooms. Here's how Frank Lloyd Wright's work became corrupted.
Creativity Why I migrated from WordPress to Ghost CMS WordPress is an amazing project and I happily blogged with it for a long time. In this post I explain why I switched to Ghost for my personal blog.
Creativity Astro Teller on the future of education and moonshots I am certain that the education system of the future does not involve rote learning or standardized testing. Like Astro Teller, I'm concerned about the way our children learn today.
Creativity Work on your art Don't say "I'm an artist," or, "I wanna be an artist". Be an artist. And to be an artist you have to create.
Creativity So the Apple / Beats deal was all about culture and creativity? Great panel at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity featuring Kanye West, Ben Horowitz and Steve Stoute discussing creativity and culture.
Creativity Aningaaq, the other side of Gravity At the end of the film Gravity, Sandra Bullock's character communicates with a person on Earth. Here's the other side of that conversation.
Creativity UnGrounded Innovative marketing from British Airways that might actually change a little part of the world.
Creativity The time I hacked my elementary school cafeteria There's a trending question on Quora about the biggest heist someone had ever pulled. Here's how I hacked my Australian elementary school cafeteria.
Creativity Typography brought to you by Cloud Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription continues to get better, with the inclusion of Typekit. If you're a "buy the box" vs subscription type, give Creative Cloud serious thought. I really like the service and Adobe continues to add value without increasing price.
Creativity Steve Jobs, creativity, and seeing what others could not One of Jobs' geniuses was his capacity to see what others couldn't. Some have taken exception to Isaacson's bio, but they miss the point.
Creativity Knowing when to abandon great art Great art is never complete, only abandoned. Knowing when to abandon our art and offer it up to the world is the most important lesson the creator has to learn.
Creativity In-built mediocrity and letting go Being good enough is pretty easy. We don't need to strive to better ourselves each and every day. It's safe. Goals are achieved. Progress is made. No-one really gets hurt. Except of course that's not true.
Creativity Context vs Content Two of my favorite, long-running TV shows ended this year: HBO’s Entourage and the BBC’s Spooks. I recently re-watched the first series of both programs and was struck by the vibrancy and intensity of each. It didn't last.
Creativity Ive's potential loss a bigger blow to Apple than Jobs' So not one but two eyebrows were raised at the news that Apple’s head of industrial design, Jon Ive, might be exiting the building.
Creativity Digital clutter: deliver quantity or quality There’s so much information around today that there's only one option when building your lists: quality over quantity.