Creativity is screwing up 29 Mar 2011 | 03:42 am

It’s important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That’s why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible. Lee Unkrich, direc...

When you hear the Tao 5 May 2010 | 09:16 am

When a superior man hears of the Tao, he immediately begins to embody it. When an average man hears of the Tao, he half believes it, half doubts it. When a foolish man hears of the Tao, he laughs...

Myths are public dreams. Dreams are private myths 26 Apr 2010 | 12:44 pm

THE SHORT VERSION: Myths are public dreams. Dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream, and following it through, it will lead you to the myth world in which you live; the passages from dre...

Clarke’s three laws 26 Apr 2010 | 05:02 am

Arthur C. Clarke formulated the following three “laws” of prediction: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that s...

The Taste of an Orange 23 Apr 2010 | 10:17 pm

There is an old Zen saying that you can try to explain to someone how an orange tastes, but how can you describe it, really? Until you’ve tasted an orange, you have no way of truly knowing. And once y...

THE DISCOVERY OF BEAUTY 14 Apr 2010 | 08:11 am

The fashioning of tools beautifully symmetrical beyond the requirements of mere use marks the beginning of the history of art already in the period of Homo erectus. The pebble tools of Homo habilis an...

10 / 90 Conundrum 7 Apr 2010 | 01:32 pm

Designers spend most of their time designing products and services for the 10% of the world’s population that already own too much, when 90% don’t have even basic products and services. - From the do...

Understanding, Wisdom, and Knowledge 6 Apr 2010 | 04:21 am

Understanding is like water flowing in a stream. Wisdom and knowledge are solid and can block our understanding. Knowledge can be an obstacle for understanding. If we take something to be the truth,...

Objectified 3 Apr 2010 | 12:45 pm

Failure & Success 2 Apr 2010 | 10:34 pm

The math is magical: you can pile up lots of failures and still keep rolling, but you only need one juicy success to build a career. The killer is the category called ‘neither’. If you spend your day...