creativity

When it comes to the question "what’s going to change in the next 10 years?" you generate the most powerful answers by keeping at least one eye on what definitely won’t change. Why?

The Myth of the Overnight Success comes from an information asymmetry: you see the victorious result, but not all the work that went into the creation of that result. But before you think, "Great, so instead of an overnight success, now I have to work for a decade for something that may or may not happen. Thanks a bunch," there are ways to make everything you do a success.

It is no mistake that culture is becoming increasingly fragmented and imitative at the same time that the most authoritative pundits are obsessing over our fractured and partisan public life.

You guys, it’s finally happening. Twin Peaks, the cult TV murder mystery from the ‘90s, is coming back to finish what was started 25 years ago. The original show had a cultural impact far exceeding its meager two seasons worth of content and changed the feel of television forever; hopefully its revival will do as much for House of Cards as its preceding episodes.

By now, everyone is familiar with Pixar Animation Studios. Their endless streak of #1, globally popular films have provided audiences with highly creative entertainment for over 20 years.

It first appeared in 1943 as the book that went against everything that the politics of the time were telling people to believe. We had been through more than a decade of the planning state, with government robbing people in order to help them. This was the period of history that prepared the way for the predatory politics that define daily life today. The experience of the New Deal prepared the way for wartime planning in ways that people today do not understand. But Paterson did.
 

People fear robots because they substitute for human workers. But this fear rests on the historically and economically incorrect presumption that the number of productive tasks that we humans can perform gainfully for each other is limited.

From origami to photography, Londoner Sam Furness challenged himself to attempt a new skill for each month of 2016. Whether to broaden your horizons or simply disrupt routine, he believes everyone can benefit from a creative curiosity-boost
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The Great British Bake Off contestant Thomas Gilliford admits cooking up a blueberry pie ‘food porno’ in an Instagram-fuelled moment of madness. Let’s stop social media making food perfectionists of us all, he proposes, and reclaim the kitchen as a hub of creativity
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Donuts are one of the reasons I love the market so much. At least once a week, I go online and see a new donut invention available to the public somewhere. If we didn’t live in a free society, that fancy donut would only be available to the dictator, while the rest of us would be left with raisin pound cake. If we had regulations dictating an official range of donut types (don’t get any ideas, Washington), we wouldn’t have the beautiful, original, sometimes-kinda-weird masterpieces that pop up in my newsfeeds.