Matthew Weiner, Mad Men showrunner and writer (and someone I write about in REST), talks about the challenge of doing creative work early in your professional life The
Brigid Schulte tweets a link to a Stephen Wolfram talk about "My Time with Richard Feynman." Among other things, it has thing line about Feynman's avoidance of busyness
Doctor and New York Times contributor Richard Friedman writes in today’s Sunday Times about swimming, flow, and problem-solving: There is no drug — recreational or prescription — capable
“It’s no accident that the best idea I’ve ever had in my life — perhaps maybe the best one I’ll ever have in my life — came to
From Shirley Jackson's essay "How I Write," publishing recently in the collection Let Me Tell You: Once, however, when I had spent all one rainy day wrestling with
[This is a transcript, slightly cleaned up, of a talk I gave earlier today at CSCW 2016. I was asked by Gloria Mark to join a panel on
The Guardian has a piece by 16 year-old Orli Vogt-Vincent about “STEM subject snobbery,” and how the emphasis on science, technology, education and maths* leads us to both underfund
So said Linus Pauling in a 1961 talk on “The Genesis of Ideas,” which I just discovered via Robert Scott Root-Bernstein. “As the world becomes more and more
I'm reading Salvador Dali's Fifty Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, his 1948 book about creativity. A lot of it is as crazy as you would expect. Beethoven with his
The Guardian's Anonymous Academic pleads with the universe (or at least deans) to "give us back our summers:" time is not the same as pounds and pence. If I
