Tag: creativity
3 posts tagged "creativity".
The capacity to generate ideas, connections, or works that are both novel and valuable. On this blog it is treated less as a mysterious gift than as a process you can cultivate — through deep work, wide reading, and a knowledge management system that lets ideas collide. It thrives under productive constraints and benefits from serendipity, the lucky encounters a curious mind keeps stumbling into. Paul Graham and David Deutsch recur here as guides to how genuinely new knowledge gets made.
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Weaponised Autism as the Font of Human Creativity
What makes humans special? How is it that we are able to unleash the energy of the atom, while our hominid ancestors gather dust in the natural history museum?
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Is Blogging Worth It? A Cheap Option for Attracting Serendipity
Blogging is an endurance sport. As Deep Dish's 4th birthday approaches—a million views, a thousand comments—I have a decent sense of whether it's been worth it.
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The Best Things in Life Really Are Free
Free and cheap activities are just as fun as their spendy alternatives, and might even accidentally make you a better human being in the process.
