Tag: creativity
The creative process — divergent thinking, creative confidence, the 650 exercises, and what happens when you stop managing your own output.
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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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If It Wasn’t an A, I Didn’t Turn It In (And What That Cost Me)
If it wasn’t an A, I didn’t turn it in. That perfectionism cost me more than I realized…
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Why Gas Goes Up Fast and Comes Down Slow (And What That Tells You About Everything)
Gas prices jump in hours and drop over months. The asymmetry isn’t accidental — it’s a pricing mechanism…
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Every Time We Lower Income Taxes, You Pay More for Everything Else
Income tax cuts put money in your pocket. Then fees, tolls, property taxes, and tuition increases take it…
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I Didn’t Mean to Start a Blog Today
The plan was to write one blog post. What actually happened was I designed an entire content system…
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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…
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I Built a System to Write This. Then the System Taught Me Everything.
About this post: I didn’t build this blog pipeline to blog faster. I built it because I kept…
