The Horse Costume Problem

How the future is accidentally invented

Taste Is All That's Left | Blog

On what is left to do once the machine can make anything, and why taste is the last craft worth keeping.

How to Get Unstuck: Simple Somatic Regulation Practices - Ness Labs

Somatic regulation is the practice of using your body to change cognitive and emotional states instead of relying on top-down thinking alone.

Somatic regulation is the practice of using your body to change cognitive and emotional states instead of relying on top-down thinking alone.

Creative work benefits from variability

How to Solve Impossible Problems: Lateral Thinking

Every day we’re presented with what seem like impossible challenges. Issues that you can’t crack, even after weeks, months, or years of trying. How do you approach these challenges? Do you have a strategy that you follow, or do you just hope for the best? There’s a better way to…

How Your Brain Creates ‘Aha’ Moments and Why They Stick | Quanta Magazine

A sudden flash of insight is a product of your brain. Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” and how it might boost memory.

Inside Lego’s secretive creative process that brings its best sets to life

The Lego Ideas team, including its senior model designer, tells Fast Company how they turned 'Gremlins' icon Gizmo into a 1,125-piece set.

And yet, Terai is responsible for one of Lego’s best sets of the year: Gizmo, the iconic creature from Joe Dante’s 1984 classic Gremlins.

Building a Lego set is an exhaustive process that marries creativity and technical precision.

A24’s Empire of Auteurs

Alex Barasch offers the first inside look at the studio behind such movies as Ari Aster’s “Midsommar,” Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” the Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Barry Jenkins’s “Moonlight,” and Josh Safdie’s upcoming “Marty Supreme”—and reports on its shift…

Proof That Constraints Can Actually Make You More Creative

Brainstorming, thinking outside the box, working with free reign on a project--they're old creativity maxims, but how well do they really work?

Neuroscientist: The No. 1 trait of highly intelligent people, including Bill Gates and Leonardo da Vinci—it's not about IQ

What separates some of the world's most successful people from everyone else? Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli says it involves how they spend their free time. He shares examples from Bill Gates and Leonardo da Vinci.

Writing is thinking

On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models.

Writing Toy Software Is A Joy

The Creativity Hack No One Told You About: Read the Obits

Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas, fueling the associations that lead to unexpected breakthroughs.

But here’s the catch: This only works if that new information is very different from what’s already in your head.

highly creative people have a different kind of memory structure — one that holds a wider range of ideas and forges more unexpected connections between them.

Google Whisk lets you turn any image into a plushie or sticker

Google has launched a new AI image generation tool called Whisk, which allows users to create visual outputs from existing

‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash

Can financial incentives turn innovation into a chore? A study of GitHub's efforts to sponsor software coders by Maria Roche and colleagues explores the interplay between motivation and creativity.

Tools for better thinking | Untools

Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.

The World Is Full of Sleeping Beauties

Success in nature and culture depends just as much on timing as it does on brilliance.

Think Like Feynman: Why You Should Have 12 Favorite Problems

Discover the practice of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Richard Feynman that has changed lives, including a method to find serendipitous answers to questions.

Obsidian Canvas - Obsidian

Obsidian Canvas gives you infinite space to research, brainstorm, diagram, and lay out your ideas.

How Do You Make the Perfect Toy? | The Walrus

Fads come and go, but how to create a toy that stands the test of time is the billion-dollar question

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How to Uncover Your Creative Talent by Using the "Equal Odds Rule"

You can't predict your own success, but the Equal Odds Rule tells us something important about uncovering creative talent. Read the article to learn more.

23 Ways to Generate Startup Ideas

Creativity: 14 Ways To Find Inspiration And Originality - PsyBlog

Creativity research in psychology reveals 14 ways to increase imaginative and creativity thinking, discover new ideas and solve problems.

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How to Get Startup Ideas

Where Do Eureka Moments Come From?

Sometimes the search for creative insight requires us to focus, and sometimes it requires us to look away.

The bingo method

You might need help to turn an idea into a project. Most of the time, though, project developers walk up to those that might help and say, “I have a glimmer of an idea, will you help me?&#822…

The Psychology of Limitation: How Constraints Make Us More Creative

If you've ever stared at a blank page, you know the importance of creative constraints. Learn how to harness limitations for more and better ideas.

The joy of sketching - UXM

The most important tool for any UX designer is a pen and a stack of paper. Why? Because before you even think about designing an interface you should be sitting down to sketch out your ideas. Find out why you should be ditching the computer and embracing pen and paper.

10 Tips for Cultivating Creativity, From the Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT

The challenge is not how to “teach creativity” to children, but rather how to create a fertile environment in which their creativity will take root, grow, and flourish.

How to explain an idea: a mega post

What's an idea? What sorts of ideas are there? And how to explain them once you have them?

8 damn good creative hacks

727 votes, 71 comments. The Dr. Seuss Method In 1960 two men had a $50 bet. One of the men was Theodore Geisel a.k.a Dr. Seuss. The other was Bennet…

Sarcasm Spurs Creative Thinking

Although snarky comments can cause conflict, a little verbal irony also stimulates new ideas.

From inspiration to idea sex: how to generate ideas on demand

How do creators find ideas to write about? Poets, artists, and authors alike have been wondering about the source of our inspiration for millennia. But what's the difference between inspiration and idea sex?

The power of dopey ideas – Tech Reflect

Eigenquestions: The Art of Framing Problems

A handbook for how to become an expert at framing problems.

Idea Generation

The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup. But giving founders an idea...

This 3-Minute Exercise Will Change the Way You Solve Problems

‘Structured thinking’ is about building a big answer by asking many small questions

How To Tell If Someone Is Truly Smart Or Just Average

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