More Creativity Cards From My Favorite Creative Whack-O… Another discussion about favorite creativity tools with my buddy Peter Lloyd. This time we talk about Roger Von Oech’s book, Expect the Unexpected or You Won’t Find It: A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus. We both love it, and I mention that I […]
Schroedinger’s DecafA thinking person’s coffeeI had a whole other entry planned for today, but then I saw this and had to share it. How could I not move something that combines creative thinking with caffeine (or decaf, as the case may be)? The artist is a Columbus resident, and his quirky cartoon site toothpastefordinner.com is […]
New Music inthe Wimpy PlayerSales is the theme this weekUpdated the tunes to the BrainBlog Jukebox this week — all with a sales/money musical twist. The BrainBlog is ultimately about the commercial value of ideas, so it seemed a natural theme to explore.Here’s the new playlist:(in no particular order, since player is set to random)Money […]
Whole NewFrame of MindI told ya so!Not since The Brand Called You article by Tom Peters have I been this excited about a concept finally tipping. Back before Mr. Peters gave it a cool and catchy name within the pages of Fast Company magazine, I had been packaging and presenting myself as a personal brand […]
A Logo in Needof Life SupportGenius. Puuure genius.With a logo like this, I suppose we should be happy the Pediatric Center is located in Arlington, VA and not Jackson Hole, WY.Although the tagline on the official Jackson Hole website (“Get Further Away“), would have been good advice for the graphic designer behind this masterpiece.Linked from […]
A Hand For HansHappy birthday to one of theworld’s greatest storytellersApril 2nd marked the bicentennial of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen, arguably one of the most prolific writers of fairy tales in history.I’ve been a fan since my youth after seeing the movie starring Danny Kaye, and realizing this was a story about the […]
MindTrap MondayCleaning up a bit this weekend and ran across an annoyingly favorite game of mine — MindTrap. The pencil is missing and only a few score sheets remain, but all the cards are still there in full aggravating glory. MindTrap drove me NUTS.The game was like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had decided to abandon […]