Tag: creativity
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Life is tastier when you take risks – Breakfast With Strangers
Back in December of 2012 I saw a thread on Reddit from two people who were driving around the country and trying to meet interesting people for breakfast. They were wondering if anyone in Phoenix could help them out. Let’s see… random connecting with people, looking for good food, a chance to show off Phoenix?…
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Plan less and explore the unexpected
There’s a time for planning, and a time to riff. Planning helps you construct something specific, when details of your product are known. Creativity is often focused in the early phases of creation and limited once plans are set. Riffing (or improvising) has boundaries and constraints, but the final product isn’t known until the end.…
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Pandora and The Whiz Dumb of Crowds
Image by National Library NZ on The Commons via Flickr I’m a big Pandora fan, and many moons ago I had an idea to make a spiffy new station – I’d crowdsource it. I put a tweet out asking for what song could you not resist getting up out of your chair and dancing to,…