Video: The Collaborative Age with Randy Nelson
I love this video as much today as I did when I first watched it several years back. The principles that Randy teaches are not only the foundations of improv, but also are the secret to ANY successful creative collaboration endeavor. The practice of not judging something that comes to you to work with is […]
Stop Killing Your Ideas
“You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over your shoulder, you’ll never write.” — Nikki Giovanni, poet Some of our most precious time is during the moments of ideation, brainstorming, musing, and contemplation. These are times when we are playing with ideas and seeing how they connect […]
Hacking the Creative Mind on Scott Hanselman’s Hanselminutes Podcast
While speaking at the AngleBrackets Conference in Orlando a couple of weeks ago, I had the great fortune of finally getting a chance of sitting down for a chat about creativity with my awesome and wonderful friend Scott Hanselman for his podcast, Hanselminutes: Fresh Air for Developers. During our conversation, we talked about a number […]
Creativity personified: Post-it Meetup at SXSW Interactive
To keep the momentum going from my “Brain on Creativity” talk at SXSW Interactive, I decided to also host a creativity meetup in conjunction with Post-It to help share their brand new Post-it Brand Big Pads with the extremely creative and innovative SXSW community. I initially named it “Create, Generate, Produce“, but once everyone got […]
Transmuting Fear at TEDxRheinMain
In my previous post, I share my experience of serendipitously speaking at TEDxRheinMain in February. But, of course, my experience that is only part of the story, right? The video is now available, so you can have your own experience learning about ways to transmute fear into productive creativity. Have you had the experience of […]
