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Category Archives: Creativity

Inner Dialogues

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

More than a year ago I wrote an article on writing out conversations between myself and the wiser part of me – “Conversations Between Me and U.” The tool of having dialogues with myself has been so useful, and in such surprising ways, that I want to tell you how it’s evolved.
While exploring Lora Sasiela’s [...]

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Cranium Sanctum

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

What do you allow and what do you suppress in the privacy of your own mind? Does the habit of limiting and restricting input – light, sound, chaos, profusions, and multiplicities – extend to keeping your own thoughts at bay?
We are unobserved inside our own minds.
What if, in the pure privacy of your mind, you [...]

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A Bespoke Life

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

What’s it like to wear a bespoke suit, a suit custom-made to fit me and only me? I want a life like that. I want a plan, a pattern, a path that takes into consideration all the weird, unruly, shocking, steadfast little and big things that combine to shape me. But how?

“The word bespoke itself [...]

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The Story of Creativity Prompts

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The Original Deck
Years ago, I made a deck of creativity prompt cards for myself – 75 prompts that propelled me into a more expansive space for finding solutions. I formatted them in Excel, printed them on card stock, and cut them out by hand.
Months later, I put them to the test. I wanted to write [...]

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Book | Glimmer

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

My copy of Warren Berger’s book bristles with Post-It Notes. Its full title is Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Life, Your Business, and Maybe Even the World and it features the visionary ideas of Bruce Mau, along with other designers and thinkers on the topic. I’m forcing myself to stop at page 50 and [...]

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