2 Reality Checks: David Shields’ Genre-Blurring Books
“A book should be an axe to break the frozen sea within us.” Reality Check #1: Reality Hunger The quote from Kafka is just one of innumerable…
Jane McGonigal: Change the World’s Broken Reality One Gamer at a Time
“Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it…We need to design ways for epic wins.” Like many current ideas keeping up with dynamic opportunities and dramatic…
2 Things I Discovered While Reading the Improbability Principle
“If something can happen, given enough time and enough opportunities (according to the law of very large numbers), it will happen.” What does David J. Hand…
Memo to the Future: 3 Mind-Bending Publishing Books
So is print really dead? Is it going to die anytime soon? 1. Post-digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing Since 1894 In this post-digital age, digital technology…
Top 5 and Why: Neil Gaiman’s Best
“The purpose of a writer is to tell it new. Tell your story.” Neil Gaiman has written for comics, novels, television, and film. Regardless of his…
The Reveal: Cormac McCarthy’s Original Drafts of Blood Meridian
Does one always want to know how the magic trick works? Does getting to know the process of something we love help us to love it…
At Least 3 Reasons Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home Remains a Rare Jewel
“A masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other.” It’s been a few years…
Tina Seelig: Leveraging What You Know to Innovate
It is important to remember that we’ve been born to be creative. Literally. The brain is a creativity machine and there’s increasing empirical data that demonstrates…
Bonobos Really Know How To Do It: Isabel Izquierdo on Play and Creativity
“Play is our adaptive wildcard. Play is essential. Play is the glue that binds us together.” Humans share a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos from about…
3 of the Most Amazing Things Bill Bryson Knows: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson was “just trying to fill an empty mind with as much interesting information as it could hold.” Sometimes asking the right questions leads us…
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