Tag Archives: Creativity

You Don’t Call Me. I Call You

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The business card below popped up on a friends wall on Facebook. It's a card with attitude and the story behind how it ended up in the press can be read at The Best Business Card Ever: A Warren Buffett Story, Starring His Girl Friday, Devon Spurgeon. The Huffington Post wrote about it too at Devon Spurgeon, Warren Buffett's Chief Of Staff, Keeps Hilarious Business Card: 'You Don't Call Me. I Call You'. For some occasions that kind of card can be useful but using a Gmail address is a bit generic. Read more [...]

Michael Wolff – Intel Visual Life

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This is a really interesting video, six minutes well spent. Michael Wolff talks about his three "muscles": Curiosity, Appreciation and Imagination. He says about cooking that "You never cook the same meal twice." That goes for other things too, a beginner's mind makes things fresh. Video: Intel Visual Life - Michael Wolff Source: Intel Visual Life - Michael Wolff. Read more [...]

Zen Brush

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I have bought Zen Brush and I really enjoy it. Enjoy performing zen art on your iPad or iPhone. Zen Brush is an app that allows you to easily enjoy the feeling of using an ink brush to write or to paint. It allows anyone to easily perform fluent strokes while not compromising on the fascinating texture of a real ink brush. Create works that radiate the right atmosphere by choosing the best background template from our large collection. You can even post your works easily on twitter. So far what Read more [...]

Turn Almost Anything Into a Whiteboard

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Have you ever felt that your Whiteboard is too small for your ideas? There is a smart solution to that. Fast Company has an article about IdeaPaint: Turn Your Entire Office Into a Whiteboard. IdeaPaint turns virtually anything you can paint on into a dry-erase surface. Your creativity is the limit, paint walls or tables or doors or... Take a look at IdeaPaint on YouTube for ideas and HowTo. Read more [...]

Creative Business Valuation

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37Signals posts a press release stating that 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT. The press release starts like this: 37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1. Founder Jason Fried describes one way - quite commonly used by startups - to increase the value of a company: In order to increase the value of the company, 37signals has decided to stop generating Read more [...]

A different way to think about creative genius

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At TED Talks there is a terrific talk by Elizabeth Gilbert: A different way to think about creative genius. Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk. I like this talk a lot and am also very impressed by her presentation. No PowerPoint or other stuff, "only" her talking and I am spellbound. Read more [...]

Creativity and education

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At TED talks is an interesting and entertaining speech by Sir Ken Robinson, author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, and a leading expert on innovation and human resources. In this talk, he makes a case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. This was originally posted at Forty Plus Two, another blog of mine. Read more [...]

Dolphin Stress Test

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READ THE FULL TEXT BEFORE LOOKING AT THE PICTURE! The picture posted here has 2 identical dolphins in it. It was used in a case study on stress levels at Loma Linda Medical Center. Look at both dolphins jumping out of the water. The dolphins are identical. A closely monitored, scientific study of a group revealed that in spite of the fact that the dolphins are identical, a person under stress would find differences in the two dolphins. The number of differences observed matches closely to the amount Read more [...]