Category: Creativity
The creative process, the 650 exercises, the permissions, and what happens when you stop managing your own output.
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Creativity Isn’t a Skill. It’s 129 Specific Permissions.
Creative blocks aren’t vague — they’re specific. After processing 650 exercises, the research identified exactly 129 permissions that…
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I Used an AI as a Lab Rat to Test 650 Creativity Exercises
650 creativity exercises needed testing at scale. The solution: feed them to an AI one at a time…
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Playing With Purpose: The Zone You Can Build
Playing With Purpose Exercise 8: Build a focused state deliberately through breath and release. Twenty minutes of setting…
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Start With the Worst Possible Version
About this post: I’ve watched students sit in front of blank screens for forty minutes, waiting for permission…
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Voice Dictation Isn’t a Writing Tool — It’s a Thinking Tool
Voice dictation isn’t a writing tool — it’s a thinking tool. What happens when you walk for 100…
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Can You Teach AI to Be Creative?
What happens when you feed 650 creativity exercises to an AI, one at a time, and track what…
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Creative Freedom Isn’t the Absence of Structure
Creative freedom isn’t the absence of structure — it’s the result of it. What organizing 650 exercises into…
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Playing With Purpose: When the Floor Drops Out
Playing With Purpose Exercise 7: The hardest thing you survived isn’t just a memory — it’s creative material.…
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What 300 Conversations With AI Taught Me About Creativity
About this post: I’ve had somewhere around 300 conversations with AI systems over the past year or so,…
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You’re Not Procrastinating. You’re Protecting Something.
The most important work sits unfinished the longest — not from laziness, but from identity protection. Greg Williams…