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.
Nature lesson 5: beware of weeds
Another reflection inspired by nature. What is your pretty weed? And I’m not talking about hallucinogens.
Nature lesson 4: Aim for beautiful and useful
Nature is amazing. It’s beautiful, yet useful. How can we incorporate this in our art?
Nature lesson 3: Go symbiotic
My rant session wasn’t going very well. There I was, explaining away the causes of my struggles in an area or the other – not quite sure what it was – but my friend pointed out that the solution had been staring me in the face all along.
I should have taken a lesson from the clown fish and the sea anemone.
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.
Nature lesson 1: Hustle Sustainably
In recent years, I have discovered that I have a craving for nature. I am a sucker for strolls in leafy green surroundings. I find this the perfect place to get some cognitive space, away from the charivari of life. But my quest for solitude is not always successful because, as it turns out, a lot […]
3 reasons why you should journal this year
“Where do you see yourself in 5 years?” This was my least favourite question in job interviews a while back. I felt like my answers were phoney because whatever I set out to do never seem to materialise. I was still figuring out this messy thing called life and was mainly reacting to it. But […]
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.
A pep talk with a twist
Apparently we are completely renewed on a cellular level every 7 to 10 years. Have you ever felt as if your mind undergoes the same process? I mean in the last decade or so, (I’m still quite young 🤔😆) I’ve experienced this mental urge to pull myself by the ear, give myself a bit of […]
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 […]