Welcome to Creativityist — a website devoted to finetuning your Mac, your workflow, and your soul to develop your creativity. I hope you’ll consider subscribing to the free RSS feed. Or, follow on Twitter: @creativityist.As I mentioned last week, today we are a stop for the Post2Post book tour. The featured book is Problem Solving [...]
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I imagine Merlin Mann has helped sell quite a few copies of The Creative Habit, but his is one of many recommendations I’ve had for this book. Maybe it’s been recommended to you many times as well. Let me add another to the list.
Twyla Tharp is a career creative who has spent decades choreographing. She [...]
I’ve been using an Amazon Kindle for over a year…most readers know that since I mentioned it as recently as last week. The announcement about Kindle 2 captured my attention, and like most current Kindle owners, I’m wondering if an upgrade would be worthwhile.
Here are my considerations, based on the feature difference between the two [...]
David Allen, the author of Getting Things Done, released a new book today. It’s called Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life.
From Amazon’s product description:
David Allen’s Getting Things Done hit a nerve and ignited a movement with businesses, students, soccer moms, and techies all the way from [...]
While driving 2300 miles from Seattle to Austin this past summer, I thought it might be a good opportunity to listen to the audiobook version of The Now Habit, by Neil Fiore.
It wasn’t.
Not that it isn’t a helpful book. It is. In fact, that was the problem. I was about an hour into the seven [...]
For most blocked creatives, reading is an addiction. We gobble the words of others rather than digest our own thoughts and feelings, rather than cook up something of our own. (pg. 87)
I hate this quote.
I agree with it, but I hate it.
It is me. I have known this to be true, but how could [...]
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 an easy read, but don’t [...]
Reading On Writing feels like I just sat down for a beer with Stephen King and had a conversation about writing. I didn’t say much. I just listened as he unloaded his heart, experience, and knowledge right off the page. Of course, he doesn’t seem to drink beer anymore, and I never acquired a taste [...]
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 that week:
Mon, June 16 – [...]
I love words. I love the way that words can shape mental images and sway opinions. Because of this, I can recognize the bias behind what I’m about to tell you. (But I think I’m right anyway.) Writing is the foundation for creative expression.
It doesn’t matter what medium you choose, good creative expression is an [...]
