Constraints can flip the switch on creativity. This video shows how limits push us to rethink, improvise, and invent. When ...

Very few “director’s cuts” are as necessary or well-put together as Blade Runner — most are flabby messes like Donnie Darko.

When I first started working with creative teams on brand strategy, I thought giving them total freedom was generous—a blank page, endless options, and opportunity to go wild! Turns out, the blank ...

Great artists often set themselves limits so as to deepen their experience of art-making. They may decide, for example, to paint predominantly in blue, as Picasso did for a time. Or they may be forced ...

Creativity is when people get in your way! It's a strange statement, but it's not as paradoxical as it might seem - let me explain. Forget the idea that to be creative, you need absolute carte blanche ...

The mythology of innovation often conjures images of boundless resources and complete creative freedom. However, research and corporate experience increasingly suggest the opposite: meaningful ...

In the beginning was the box, and the box was with God, and the box was God. ~ The Book of the Box The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense. ~Pablo Picasso Creativity is all the rage. In an era ...

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What is really exciting about this week’s advances in AI is that I think that generative AI is good enough, right now, to make you much more creative. And that weirdness is a benefit in idea ...

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It is easy to assume that an artist is most creative when most free of constraints, but it is the other way around. The more constraints, the higher the order of thought needed to overcome them.

“Tornado of Life is a tour de force. It features patient narratives, sketches of the ER, self-portraits of [Baruch’s] development as a provider throughout [his] career, and [his] reflective and ...