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your best bet may be to walk a middle way, accepting slightly less creativity in exchange for being more of a team player. 7 Characteristics of Highly Creative People | Inc.com
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sfmoma: “1. Associative orientation: Imaginative, playful, have a wealth of ideas, ability to be committed, sliding transitions between fact and fiction. 2. Need for originality: Resists rules and conventions. Have a rebellious attitude because of a need to do things no one else does. 3. Motivation: Have a need to perform, goal oriented, innovative attitude,…
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Nurenberg Chronicles
Just found out that our library has a copy of the Nurenburg Chronicles in a vault in special collections. OMFG!
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towerofsleep: Going to be talking about David Horvitz in my conference paper tomorrow.
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Life’s Work: Philippe Starck
Life’s Work: Philippe Starck HBR seeking the seven habits of highly lateral people. It’s a good read on Stark as lone genius supported by a team of acolytes.
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emergentfutures: “The creative process is just that: a process. Recognizing value that others have missed doesn’t require preternatural clairvoyance. A well-honed creative process enables us to intuitively recognize patterns and use those insights to make inductive predictions about divergent ideas, both vertically within categories, and horizontally across categories. By understanding the genealogy of innovation within…
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When you’re faced with a cognitive challenge, part of dealing with a cognitive challenge is with the subject matter. How much do I know about this issue? Have I had experience in the issue before? Another part of it is knowing what it means to struggle, to have difficulty, to deal with a cognitive problem…
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brucesterling: *Google Glass: like a 1980s game console screen appearing in midair. It’s light, bright, and very toylike. http://nextberlin.eu/
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April 9 is traditionally a day to remember the victims. It is distasteful and disrespectful to the memory of Colombia´s victims, the murdered, the disappeared, and the kidnapped, to turn the date into a day for politics. On April 9, 1948, the great Liberal Jorge Eliecer Gaitan was murdered sparking a near revolutionary force that…
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Rhizome | Xul Solar’s Possible Futures
Rhizome | Xul Solar’s Possible Futures warrenellis: “Only collective inventions have any real value, Xul Solar once told his close friend and fellow Porteño Jorge Luis Borges, trying to convince him (unsuccessfully) to write in Neo-Criollo, one of the two languages he had invented and the one he himself preferred to use for writing and…