Creativity

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Innovative marketing from British Airways that might actually change a little part of the world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There’s so much information around today that there's only one option when building your lists: quality over quantity.