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Feynman's Nobel Ambition
It was effortless. It was easy to play with these things. It was like uncorking a bottle: Everything flowed out effortlessly. I almost tried to resist it! There was no importance to what I was doing, but ultimately there was. The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate.
burnout  creativity  inspiration 
5 weeks ago by mwfogleman
Seth's Blog: The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer
The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer

Let me guess: check the incoming. Check email or traffic stats or messages from your boss. Check the tweets you follow or the FB status of friends.

You've just surrendered not only a block of time but your freshest, best chance to start something new.

If you're a tech company or a marketer, your goal is to be the first thing people do when they start their day. If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/responded/insisted to what happened yesterday.
inspiration  creativity  work 
january 2012 by mwfogleman
The radioactive boy scout: When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor—By Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine)
The psychological profiles of pioneering American physicists are remarkably similar. Frequently the eldest son of an emotionally remote, professional man, he–almost all were men–was a voracious reader during childhood, tended to feel lonely, and was shy and aloof from classmates.
education  articles  read  harpers  reactor  boy  radioactive  geek  magazine  awesome  interesting  nuclear  experiments  creativity  article  science  diy  essay  news  history  ethics  energy  cool 
may 2009 by mwfogleman
Book Review: The Creative Habit | The Practice of Leadership
I just read and loved Twyla Tharp's book; this is a summary of the main points.
leadership  books  business  creative  creativity  art  gtd  lifehack  management  review 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Elizabeth Gilbert on genius | Video on TED.com
The author of Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert has thought long and hard about some large topics. Her next fascination: genius, and how we ruin it; she muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.
video  genius  creative  elizabethgilbert  education  mac  failure  process  writing  interesting  inspiration  ted  videos  awesome  creativity  art  presentation  towatch 
february 2009 by mwfogleman
Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains | Wired Science from Wired.com
Wired.com: The subtitle of your book predicts a "coming dark age." Do you really believe this?
Jackson: Dark ages are times of forgetting, when the advancements of the past are underutilized. If we forget how to use our powers of deep focus, we'll depend more on black-and-white thinking, on surface ideas, on surface relationships. That breeds a tremendous potential for tyranny and misunderstanding. The possibility of an attention-deficient future society is very sobering.
politics  education  productivity  technology  internet  psychology  culture  science  article  brain  tech  creativity  wired  gtd  computers  mind  2009  digital  memory  twitter  attention  modernity  multitasking  overload  distraction  stress  add 
february 2009 by mwfogleman
Tough Learning
The natural sciences have a reputation for posing special challenges to the way we think and learn: they are a form of “extreme thinking”. In this essay physicist Michael A. Nielsen discusses some of the challenges facing researchers in the natural sciences, and how those challenges shed light on other tough learning situation
reference  education  howto  lifehacks  productivity  tips  learning  philosophy  psychology  science  interesting  life  inspiration  advice  research  article  social  brain  creativity  ideas  articles  teaching  lifehack  essay  personal  thinking  motivation 
december 2008 by mwfogleman
Mind Performance Hacks
Mind Performance Hacks is a new book by Ron Hale-Evans, maintainer of the Mentat Wiki. Mind Performance Hacks addresses many of the same topics as this wiki, in O'Reilly's well-known Hacks format.
mindhacks  lifehacks  productivity  books  brain  creativity  learning  psychology 
august 2007 by mwfogleman
TED: Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it.
ted  education  creativity 
august 2007 by mwfogleman
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