I usually base my musings on nature in general but this time I turned my attention to 3 laws of thermodynamics specifically.
Don’t ignore the laws of the universe!
The benefits of a creative routine
I wrote one song every day for 21 days. This is what the experience taught me.
Do you know why you create?
Do you know why you make art? It serves much more than one purpose. It can be a lifeline.This is my estimation after diving deep into my own experience of it. Let’s explore together.
Nature lesson 5: beware of weeds
Another reflection inspired by nature. What is your pretty weed? And I’m not talking about hallucinogens.
Conversation with my younger creative self
Things I wish I knew when I was a young creative being suppressed by the outside world
Nature lesson 4: Aim for beautiful and useful
Nature is amazing. It’s beautiful, yet useful. How can we incorporate this in our art?
5 ways you may be killing your creativity
Whoever you are, I’m willing to bet that you have a creative side. You may just need to stop getting in your own way.
Nature lesson 2: Craft Your Work Environment
We measure and obsess about KPI’s at work but we should equally pay attention to work environment. Here’s the science to back this up.
There’s no app for being the best you.
We want everything to be simple and straight forward.It’s a desirable thing.
But making products easier to use for end users, developing systems so the work can be easily managed, better organised, easier to teach and hand over require a more valuable trait.
2 little known principles about productivity and creativity
We are talking about the practice of fallowing a field, i.e leaving it uncultivated for a season or 2, so the soil can regenerate. It has been practised in Israel for millennia. To start with, it was only associated with the Jewish religion but was borrowed by people of many creeds and cultures because it made so much […]
5 myths stopping you from being a productive creative powerhouse
I used to think all wealthy people had to be dishonest or inhumane. Rewind time further back and I thought I had to be quite well off to run a car. Rewind time even further back and, I kid you not, I thought girls fell pregnant after eating a specific diet! Erhm. I was about […]
Why gratitude is your best ally
Where has the time gone? It seems to be a recurring question of mine. I cruise along then at some point (usually about half way through the year) I go into a mild panic: I reflect on the goals I set myself (or thought of setting) and decide what to do next (either go for a proverbial […]