As a guy whose advice for creatives to flourish often goes something like “Find yourself in getting lost” and “Move toward the difficult,” and as a guy who shucked a comfy sure-thing academic job twelve years ago to pursue something…
In February 2006 – weeks following the Oscar-winning Capote’s release and just weeks before the Oscars were announced – I had the good fortune to interview the film’s director Bennet Miller about the boundaries between truth and fiction in both…
I have big dreams and desires for being part of a cause that reaches far, far beyond the needs of myself, my loved ones, and even of the people with whom I work. But I still wonder how and when…
This morning in a courtyard in Taos, New Mexico, I guided fifteen writers through a meditative yoga flow. When I asked them to check in with questions such as, “What am I here for?” and “What am I writing for?”…
A couple of years ago, I said something to two music-craving, iPod-obsessed friends that to them made no sense whatsoever (and for the record I say a lot of such things). iTunes and Youtube had just come onto my radar,…
It’s really not as difficult as it sounds. But it’s crucial, this wonder-tracking, if we creatives and solo-preneurs want to sustain our creative projects and keep our momentum. Scenario 1: A client called me yesterday in crisis. Three years ago,…
Booze as Muse for Yesterday’s Literary Stars A young and mostly unknown Ernest Hemingway met the newly celebrated F. Scott Fitzgerald allegedly in Paris’s Dingo Bar, a common hang out for ex-pat writers. That year, 1925, Scribner’s Sons had published…
Hello, Wild Pack, I’ve spent a couple of hours this morning at Google Creative Labs for a special talk & tour called “Making Good Things Happen That Matter.” The event is arranged by the organizers of The 99% Conference, which…
You can jump down to the Fertile Confusion Pencast if you don’t want to read this introduction to the technology behind it. I don’t consider myself a techy geek. Still, I get enamored with useful, elegant technology that has the…
Will Burns has a passion: ideas. Where they come from. How to get more. How to pool idea experts and let them loose on client and business problems to see what solutions they come up with. Ideasicle is Will’s Expert-Sourcing…
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