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 The Great Gatsby, a book which helped make the young blond writer from Minnesota America’s…
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 launches later today. Google’s changed our brains (according to some thinkers also reviewed in The…
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 wonder factor – that is, it makes me say a wide-eyed “Wow!” like a golly-gee…
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 strategy of world-class idea experts. His team has helped Chevrolet, Saranac Beer, US Open Air…
It’s Earth Day tomorrow, and chances are you’ll spend hours in front of a computer or other digital device and only minutes outdoors. Why would entrepreneurs and creatives and business people wanting to hone their edge need to take a walk or hike or, you know, plant a tree if they didn’t have to?
“Chance favors the connected mind.” – Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From I’ve been wondering about connectivity. Steven Johnson stumbled upon some fascinating insights regarding connectivity while investigating just what his new book’s title says – where good ideas come from. Most great ideas take years to develop. One person has a half idea….
Note: On April 8, 1973, artist Pablo Picasso died at his home near Mougins, France, at age 91. Did you ever love an artist when you were a girl or boy? I mean, really adore and idolize him or her the way some kids do pop stars and athletes? If so, how is that love…
One of my favorite creativity blogs is Mark McGuinness’s Lateral Action. Based in London, Mark is a poet who consults with entrepreneurs, creatives, and businesses. Sound familiar? He’s on the board of a literary magazine – one I published in a dozen years ago. He was a reluctant entrepreneur. He is a kindred spirit. So,…
Note: We’re hungry to master our craft. At least judging from the questions readers and clients have sent me, we are. And judging from the research about what motivates us, we are. The following is the third in a series of articles about mastering that slippery thing called “voice.” Have fun. * * * Part…
Tara Sophia Mohr is one of those people I sense that I could talk with for hours and never grow bored. She’s often described as “the mystic in the Ivy League and the poet in the business school classroom.” A dream lover. An MBA from Stanford. One who chooses her life’s course creatively. She nurtures…
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