The Power of Bad Ideas. This is a seriously useful read.

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Work on one thing at a time until finished.
Start no more new books, add no more new material to "Black Spring."
Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
When you can't create you can work.
Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.
Don't be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.

What things do has become more important than what they are.
At the core of that is an increasingly widespread braveness and spirit of invention beyond any single discipline or design brief. Some of this can be traced back to the technology start-up culture in northern California. It isn’t the wealth or the technical glamour of technology that is interesting in that history. There were (and are) small groups of mixed-discipline people punching far above their weight, through invention and a smart understanding of the cultural and financial situations within which they exist.

well put

the motherload

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quite lengthy indeed

might want to throw in some exchange studies here

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An exercise in retrospective futurism by Howard Rheingold

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“If you’re at the cutting edge, then you’re going to bleed.”

"online game that involves African social entrepreneur/superheroes rescuing Tokyo from famine"

we don't know what we don't know until we do what we don't usually do - TBWA honcho John Hunt

The album, the magazine and the novel become one?

The human hand, in manipulation of objects, is the hand in search of a brain. The brain is in search of a hand, and play is the medium by which those two are linked in the best way. —Stuart Brown

At 70, writer Charles Bukowski started using a computer -- a Macintosh IIsi that his wife gave him for Christmas -- and was so taken with it that he never went back to the typewriter. "There is something about seeing your words on a screen before you that makes you send the word with a better bite, sighted in closer to the target."

coolest thing today

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Ben Franklin was never bored

... to do with the two minds that govern creative expertise: the instinctual unconscious mind (the realm of relaxed concentration) and the thinking mind (the realm of deliberate practice). The tension between these two minds is both the key to and fatal flaw of human creativity...

This article is fucking awes*me!

Allison Arieff shares a few of inventor/author/cartoonist/former urban planner Steven M. Johnson's drawings and inventions.

2 oldie but goodie TED talks: Olafur Eliasson -Playing with space and light Paula Scher gets serious