“Your Brain on Creativity” will be at SXSWi 2013

Posted by on Nov 20, 2012 in Conferences, Presentations, Speaking, Word Flow | 2 Comments

I just wanted to follow up to my post asking for votes and support to get my presentation “Your Brain on Creativity” into the programming for SXSW Interactive 2013. Your votes worked! So come and see me speak at SXSW in Austin in March and get what I am thinking of as my “TED-length” version […]

Four practices you never thought could make you more productive

Posted by on Sep 12, 2012 in Articles, Word Flow, Work, Writing | No Comments
Four practices you never thought could make you more productive

If asked if they wanted to be more productive during their day, most people would respond with an emphatic “yes!”. But what we usually do to create and produce more is to “push through it”, “suck it up”, and have a “no pain, no gain” type of attitude. What if some of the answers to […]

“Your Brain on Creativity” submitted for SXSWi 2013: Please vote for it!

Posted by on Aug 29, 2012 in Conferences, Speaking, Word Flow | 6 Comments

In 2010, right after finishing my book The CSS Detective Guide, I had an epiphany. And not just any old garden-variety epiphany, but a earth-shattering, soul-illuminating one. At that moment, I realized that something I had aspired to and a quality that I have long sought after and longed for I finally had. Not only […]