Tag: creativity

• The long and winding genius of the Pauls (McCartney and Simon)

  While trolling for something to read on Hoopla, I came upon Malcolm Gladwell’s new book Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon. It’s only available as an audiobook (or “audio biography”), and wisely so since so much of it depends on hearing Simon play his songs amidst his conversations with Gladwell. In that way it’s […]

  December 21, 2021

  Books, Music

• Code of Ethics for engineers (and everyone)

  Not sure where I found this on the interwebs, but I immediately fell in love with it—not for the engineering and robotics aspect, but for how it can be used for any creative work: Let’s call these the 10 Commandments of Creative Work. Just replace “robot” with your art of choice: 1. Be industrious. Build, […]

  September 8, 2018

  Technology

• Creativity is the long way

  Reading Brene Brown’s Rising Strong, this quote surprised me: Creativity embeds knowledge so that it can become practice. We move what we’re learning from our heads to our hearts through our hands. We are born makers, and creativity is the ultimate act of integration—it is how we fold our experiences into our being. Fully agree. […]

  July 27, 2018

  Books