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Simplicity = Sanity. This is the premise of the book for an overly complicated and increasingly complex world. Ten laws to help us move toward simplicity in design, technology, business and life.
Dan Wooldridge is convinced that work is not merely the means to an end; good work is well worth doing for its own sake.
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Gordon MacKenzie worked at Hallmark for exactly 30 years — to the day. His role was to create for the giant greeting card company.
Dan Wooldridge writes that the legendary Seattle restaurant, Canlis, is a model of the integration of a biblical worldview with world-class business innovation.
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A New York Times article "The Boss in the Machine" -reminded me how easy it is to surrender meditation . . . reflection . . . contemplation . . . daydreaming . . . just plain thinking about things to the technology that's supposed to be working for us.
Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch thinks he knows why so many movies look the same. In two words: Risk Aversion. Does this apply to your industry?
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One of the unique traits that makes humans unique, different from animals, is our ability to use our skills and talents to shape material things to reflect our individuality - and when we do this, we create property. Material things in and of themselves are not property; they become property only when humans creatively find ways to use them productively. [...]
Charles Colson
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How do you create profit-driving creativity? By using creative leverage. Learn to stimulate it and channel it properly in order to solve your marketing and branding problems.
Humanness - that's what we must stress, if we are really the children of God, redeemed as men. Without it community dies. So I would encourage all of us to outdo each other in order to create, in order to have something to share. Let us not take offense at what others have. [...]
Udo Middelman
Our uniqueness emerges when we are authentic. And it's in this authenticity that our creative calling and contribution is fulfilled.
Dan Wooldridge points us to a video by Twyla Tharp to provoke thinking on what motivates us to be creative.
Consciously and with deliberate purpose, [man] can do two things that the animals can only do unconsciously and instinctively. First, Man is able to bless and praise God for the world...man is also able to reshape and alter the world.
Kallistos Ware
Dan Wooldridge reflects on the relationship of faith and design. How should our faith be expressed in design? Why aren't people of faith creating more passionate and astonishing works?
Man is a maker, who makes things because he wants to, because he cannot fulfill his true nature if he is prevented from making things for the love of the job; he is made in the image of the Maker and he must himself create or become something less than a man.
Dorothy Sayers
A c|net reader responds to news that American programmers placed poorly in a recent international competition. And he's not happy!
Dan Wooldridge, a confessed addict of the simple and elegant Moleskine notebooks encourages you to capture your inspiration and thinking in writing.
Ted Lucas of Lattice Capital Management LLC tells how understanding the meaning of work and the example of Bach stimulated creative thinking about his profession.
Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway Human Transporter, makes an astute observation about what is at the foundation of a good invention.
Joe Doucet says creativity puts end users at the center of the design universe—an "aha" for some, a startling notion for others.
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Why, then, do play and work seem so contradictory? Why, as adults, do we relegate them to separate spheres, and do so few workers and companies value play as a means to producing effective work? Perhaps it is because we are brought up to believe that the two cannot coexist. Over time, [...]
Kevin Carroll
Neoteny is the practice of intentional wonder and voluntary naivete so as to see familiar things as if for the first time. Neoteny is what it takes to see the world fresh every day and engage what's there with purpose and passion.
AdAge asked a bunch of really smart business leaders "how they continuously educate themselves to keep up with the shifting digital and cultural landscapes." Here's what they said (and what InsideWork has to say about what they said).
Dan Wooldridge asks, "What kind of environment are you creating at work? What kind of messages do you communicate about that to your stakeholders? to potential employees? What difference does that make?"
Tom Kelly, Jonathan Littman: The Ten Faces of Innovation
IDEO's Strategies for Beating the Devil's Advocate & Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization
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God made us creative and innovative. Most organizations, though in dire need of innovation, kill it. Kelly identifies 10 roles people can play to stimulate innovation and fresh thinking while countering the naysayers.
An interesting note from the Wall Street Journal's Walter Mossberg on who's serving whom in the computer market.
Richard Florida is founder of the Creative Class Group. His bestsellers, Who’s Your City, The Rise of the Creative Class, and The Flight of the Creative Class, introduced us to concepts of how businesses, communities, and nations develop, compete, thrive.
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Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union discontinued all Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. Another one bites the dust.
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In the just-in-time, modern workplace, speed seems to be all-important. Email and cellphones demand an instant response, and a deadline lurks around every corner. A 2001 survey conducted by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions found that EU workers were under much greater time pressure than a decade ago.
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"Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788) said that the following five attributes marked Rome at its end: first, a mounting love of show and luxury (that is, affluence); second, a widening gap between the very rich and the very poor (this could be among countries in the family of nations as well as in a single nation); third, an obsession with sex; fourth, freakishness in the arts, masquerading as originality, and enthusiasms pretending to be creativity; fifth, an increasing desire to live off the state. It all sounds so familiar ... we are back in Rome."
Francis A. Schaeffer
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The ability to handle stress is part of the equation that defines the great artist or designer: an art professional who does not find ways of keeping stress under control rarely stays in the field long enough to become great.
Jim Krause
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