Category: Creativity
The creative process, the 650 exercises, the permissions, and what happens when you stop managing your own output.
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When You Like the Person You Became
Nine or ten years ago, I was standing at the bathroom sink, and I looked up at the…
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Stop Picking the Easy Fight
Here’s something I noticed partway through one of the stranger projects I’ve taken on in the last few…
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My Musical Taste Stopped Evolving in 1983 (and That Turned Into a Research Question)
I was somewhere on the highway between my house and my mother’s, probably an hour in, radio off,…
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Your Brain Made That Up
I was sitting with Dan Margulis’s book, the LAB color one, “Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum,” and…
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How AI Rewrites You Into Someone Else
After years of AI-assisted writing, the patterns became clear: the AI wasn’t helping Greg write — it was…
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Stories Don’t Explain a Principle — They Install It
Stories don’t explain a principle — they install it. What happened when 650 creativity exercises revealed the difference…
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You Can’t Teach Making by Explaining It
After 25 years of teaching design, the hardest lesson: you can’t teach making by explaining it. The tools…
