Keith Sawyer spots some research that looked at some famous “loner” creatives and found that their most creative periods coincided with less social isolation.
Beyond marshmallow motorbikes
Improv can still be powerful when it’s mundane
Share Post
More Posts
Fierce collaboration
Finding space for stronger feelings in collaboration
The joy of conversation
I’ve just had a delightful meeting with Emma Cahill co-founder of publishing house Snowbooks. They describe their approach thus: We publish far fewer titles than
Collaboration
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking – and worrying – about collaboration. I think the ability to collaborate effectively is becoming ever more essential
David Bowie says IP is in for a bashing
The Church of the Customer blog quotes an NY Times interview with David Bowie who says: I’m fully confident that copyright for instance, will no
Thinking or Doing?
I spend too much time thinking. A friend revealed to me recently that he would describe me to acquaintances as a brain on a stick.
Denham Gray on the unspoken
No sooner do I finish my last blog than I stumble on Denham Grey’s eloquent thoughts: Wonder if you can really capture tacit knowledge by
Speaking the unspoken
I’ve been thinking a lot about what goes unspoken in the world in general and in my little slice of it in particular. There I
Spam comments and the power of community
I’ve just started to suffer from Spam comments the latest effort by these wretches to publicise their sites. They basically post fatuous comments to weblogs
Upcoming events
I’ve always really enjoyed speaking in public. Don’t know why, just do. So I’m chuffed that a couple of interesting events have come up for
More Updates
The Fetish of Change – chewing it over
My post responding to Christopher Grey’s polemic The Fetish of Change has provoked some great reflections by other bloggers. I really appreciate the way blogging allows us to chew over
14 May 2006
The end of ugly
(cross-posted from Medium) I’m planning a new workshop with my friend Alan Moore, inspired by his new book: Do Design: Why Beauty is Key to Everything We’ll be asking: could
25 August 2016
A week in the spotlight
Tom Guarriello has a fascinating post on his week in the YouTube spotlight (after being chosen as the featured video). Some of his reflections: The experience of being featured is
16 April 2007
Making do
Lovely post by Chris Corrigan: Making Do. If you can’t make do with this fillet, you might enjoy reading the whole thing. Materialism and the acquistion of stuff infects so
7 July 2005
Showing Slide 1 of 17