Archive for the ‘creativity’ Category

evernote for iphone: early impressions

Monday, July 14th, 2008

I'm deeply committed to Yojimbo, but I've been flirting with Evernote for about three months now. Last week, Evernote rolled out a beautiful new iPhone app with the launch of the app store. Here are a few early impressions of the iPhone app: It looks fantastic. It is fun to look ...

a whack on the side of the head

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

As I mentioned (or threatened) earlier, here is the second part of our tour stop for the Post2Post virtual book tour. I'd like to share with you some of my experience as I read A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative. Whack is ...

q&a with roger von oech

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Today, we are the tour stop for the Post2Post virtual book tour. I'm honored to be hosting Roger von Oech, author of the new revised and updated A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative. I'll be posting some thoughts on my own experience with ...

post2post tour

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

I'm excited that Creativityist is going to be a stop on the Post2Post virtual book tour two weeks from today. We will be interacting with Roger von Oech about the re-release of his classic work on creativity: A Whack on the SIde of the Head. Here's the rundown of the tour ...

creativity loves company

Monday, February 18th, 2008

I read Ethan Watters' Urban Tribes in 2005. While I thought the book was interesting, what stuck with me most was the realm in which the book was written. Ethan Watters is one of the co-founders of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. It is a shared "office for the creative ...

creativity begets creativity

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Two elemental fears sabotage my creative process time and again. The first fear is that my creative expressions won't be received well by others. It would take many blog entries (and hours of therapy) to unravel that fear. That's not what this blog entry is about...I'm afraid no one would want ...

getting things created

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch I am enamored with the concept behind this quote. In this age of information, it is commonly concluded that the chief role of the human brain is to remember and store all that information ...

creativityist…one who practices creativity

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Somewhere in my soul, creativity struggles to spring out. I'm often labeled as 'creative', but being creative often feels like work. Maybe it's not creativity that is work...it's trying to find the time and space to be creative. Here's the thing -- it seems to me that creativity happens in two parts. ...