The Dance of the Possible
The Dance of the Possible is a short book that captures my best advice from years of work as a creativity expert in one fun, easy to read volume. This short, fast paced, irreverent guide to creativity...
View ArticleWhy no one cared about the Wright brothers airplane
[In 28 days my latest book, The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity, launches. I’m counting down until then with a story a day – see the series here]...
View ArticleHow the Post-it Note Was Invented
[In 27 days my latest book, The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity, launches. I’ll be counting down the days until then with the story of an interesting...
View ArticleInside the messy invention of the microwave oven
[In 23 days my latest book, The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity, launches. I’ll be counting down the days until then with the story of an interesting...
View ArticleHow Ignorance Drives Creativity
[In the countdown to the release of The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity, I ran a series of stories as a countdown – you can see the series here]...
View ArticleDance of the Possible: Launch Recap (w/ Photos)
About 80 friends and fans joined me on Wednesday night to celebrate the launch of The Dance of the Possible. A launch party is a good way for me to thank all the folks who’ve helped make my 14 year, 7...
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn From The Eiffel Tower
We take great works for granted. We forget, but the fate of even our most famous ideas and creations was far from certain at the time they were proposed. A powerful exercise anyone can do is to pick a...
View ArticleThe proof that we’re all creative: losing your keys
On Tuesdays I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the lovely archive). This week’s question is from Crysel [44 votes]: What is the real motivation for creativity? For most of history...
View ArticleThe Three Gaps of Creativity: Effort, Skill and Quality
[This is an excerpt from the book The Dance of The Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity.] The great surprise for people with good ideas is the gap between how an idea...
View ArticleFREE Today: The Dance of The Possible on Kindle
Sunday was my birthday and to help celebrate my success at avoiding death in this universe I’m giving my latest book away to all of you fans and readers on Kindle today, Tuesday 4/17. You don’t have to...
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