The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
Give your brain the boredom and output time it needs to figure out what to do with that information. Don’t keep opening the jar and packing more into it.
Read more [blog.nateliason.com]
Posts tagged with creativity
Consume less, create more
"Were previous generations really better off because they merely watched TV, or listened to radio, or read books? All of these activities are passive. All of these activities involve letting external thoughts temporarily replace your own. Today’s smartphones differ from medieval books only in degree—all media is created to be consumed. I had to start creating."
So much this!
Read more [blog.tjcx.me]
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Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas
Sometimes the extreme is surprisingly appropriate. Unique business models emerge when at least one dimension is so extreme that it defies critics and competitors to even conceive of its possibility.
Read more [longform.asmartbear.com]
10 lessons in productivity and brainstorming from The Beatles
As a big Beatles fan, I enjoyed this blog post very much. I often think there are a lot of similarities between programming and making music.
Read more [medium.com]
Websites should be more like Star Wars
My colleague Brent makes the case for being more creative on the web
Read more [stitcher.io]
How Music Was Made On Super Nintendo
Limiting breeds creativity.
7 Practical Tips for Cheating at Design
On their mutual Medium blog, Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger published an excellent post that offers 7 actionable tips to make your stuff look better.
It’s easy to throw your hands up and say, “I’ll never be able to make this look good, I’m not an artist!” but it turns out there are a ton of tricks you can use to level up your work that don’t require a background in graphic design. Here are seven simple ideas you can use to improve your designs today.
https://medium.com/refactoring-ui/7-practical-tips-for-cheating-at-design-40c736799886
Take the power back
iA writer is a great app to write text without any distractions (I'm not paid to say this ?). On their website the developers wrote an inspirational article that urges you to not only consume content, but also to create it.
You may have heard that the best way to deal with the “information overload” is to switch off your devices. To take a break from the Internet. Go for a run. Roll out the Yoga mat. Read a book. Talk to your friends. Switching off is good advice. But eventually, you’ll be back. How about changing? Changing from passive, to active. From scroll to search, from react to rethink, from like and retweet to write and link.
https://ia.net/topics/take-the-power-back/