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How to Find Your Voice: Nick Cave on Creativity
https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/01/20/nick-cave-creativity • 4 min
“Your imagination… is mostly an accidental dance between collected memory and influence… a construction that awaits spiritual ignition.”
How I Used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to Create A Painted Portrait of My Dog
https://shruggingface.com/blog/how-i-used-stable-diffusion-and-dreambooth-to-create-a-painted-portrait-of-my-dog • 16+ min
In this post, we walk through my entire workflow/process for bringing Stable Diffusion to life as a high-quality framed art print. We’ll touch on making art with Dreambooth, Stable Diffusion,…
John Maeda on Creativity, AI, and the Human Pursuit of Uphill Thinking
https://www.figma.com/blog/uphill-thinking • 6 min
John Maeda shares takeaways from this year’s Design In Tech Report, and why we should embrace uphill thinking in a world optimized for shortcuts.
Can a Lego Car Roll Downhill Forever?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLXNc7unIT4
Making Lego cars roll downward on a Lego treadmill with an incline, using various methods to create tire friction, in order to make the cars roll downhill in...
Working Out, Working In: Applying the Six Principles of Athletic Training to Writing and Creative Work
https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/12/17/exercise-writing • 3 min
The highest and hardest task of life may be to become entirely ourselves — to continually purify and clarify who and what we are, shedding the shoulds of culture, convention, and expectation …
How To Find MILLION DOLLAR Business Ideas That WORK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmS6UcxM8rQ
I'm joined by Noah Kagan, CEO of AppSumo. We talk about how to build products people love, how he lost $1M for not listening to customers, how to find the be...
How to come up with a unique Halloween costume without spending a ton of money
https://www.vox.com/even-better/23380646/create-best-halloween-costume-cheap-diy • 7 min
Tap your creativity (and closet) for the best Halloween costume.
The Best Ideas of 2023 | The Curiosity Chronicle
https://www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/the-best-ideas-of-2023 • 8 min
The Curiosity Chronicle has quickly become one of the most popular newsletters for growth-minded individuals in the world. Each week, subscribers receive a deep dive that covers topics ranging from…
Drawing for writers: Procreate 101
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLsMwb0DbQE
Even if you have never drawn before, we'll teach you how to draw and make your articles stand out using Procreate. Salman Ansari (https://letter.salman.io) a...
Scientists Have Invented a Simple New Test For Creativity, And You Can Try It Out
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-invented-a-simple-new-test-for-creativity-and-you-can-try-it-out • 2 min
What makes one person more creative than another? Creativity is hard to define and perhaps even more difficult to measure, but scientists think they've come up with a remarkably simple way of…
Wild Minds
https://collabfund.com/blog/wild-minds • 7 min
Eliud Kipchoge, the world’s best marathon runner, was being held in a staging room during the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo. He and two other runners – Bashir Abdi from Belgium and Abdi Nageeye of the…
How to increase your creativity by cultivating creative self-efficacy
https://nesslabs.com/creative-self-efficacy • 3 min
Creative self-efficacy is the internal belief that you have the ability to complete creative tasks effectively. If you can learn to leave behind the fixed mindset of “I am not a creative person”, you…
30 Useful Principles (Autumn 2023)
https://gurwinder.substack.com/p/30-useful-principles-autumn-2023 • 6 min
Ideas to help you make sense of the world
What is a picture?
https://ralphammer.com/what-is-a-picture • 4 min
If we want to understand what a picture is, then we must look at the difference between perception and imagination.
How to cultivate creativity as an adult, according to an expert
https://www.salon.com/2022/04/25/creative-interview • 9 min
Shared by 852, including Ines Bieler, Stephanie A Kowalski, Katja Evertz
Between Risk and Control: How Mark Rothko Discovered His Signature Style
https://lithub.com/between-risk-and-control-how-mark-rothko-discovered-his-signature-style • 8 min
Featured image: Allie Caulfield via Creative Commons In the summer of 1933, Mark Rothko, who was then still known as Markus Rothkowitz, hitchhiked nearly three thousand miles from New York City to …
Young children trounce large language models in a simple problem-solving task
https://bigthink.com/the-present/large-language-models-lose-to-children • 3 min
Large language models like ChatGPT are immensely powerful — the first artificial intelligences to produce truly human-like content. They are already being used to provide customer service, write…
Use the '5S' Technique to Create a More Productive Workspace
https://lifehacker.com/home/5s-technique-create-a-more-productive-workspace • 3 min
This process is all about making cleaning your workspace more efficient, therefore making your work more efficient, too.
Top 25 Interesting Ideas and Concepts Everyone Should Know
https://themindcollection.com/interesting-ideas • 11+ min
A collection of the most interesting ideas on critical thinking, philosophy and storytelling to help you make better sense of the world.
An Interview with Emily Segal — Are.na
https://www.are.na/blog/its-not-business-its-personal-emily-segal • 20+ min
Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge.
New talk: Making Hard Things Easy
https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/10/06/new-talk--making-hard-things-easy • 20+ min
A few weeks ago I gave a keynote at Strange Loop called Making Hard Things Easy. It’s about why I think some things are hard to learn and ideas for how we can make them easier. Here’s the video, as…
How To Find A Hobby As An Adult, According To Experts & Women Who’ve Done It
https://www.bustle.com/wellness/how-to-find-hobby-adult • 8 min
Not sure what to do with your evenings off? Experts and women who've done it share their best tips for finding a hobby as an adult.
The purpose of life is to participate in evolution through action
https://engineeringideas.substack.com/p/the-purpose-of-life-is-to-participate • 2 min
The statement from the title of this post is the result of combining several ideas which I present below. This is still a very vague statement (in which the words “evolution” and “action” could and…
This Anime Does Not Exist
https://near.blog/this-anime-does-not-exist • 5 min
This Anime Does Not Exist was launched on January 19th 2021, showcasing almost a million images (n=900,000 at launch, now n=1,800,000 images), every single one of which was generated by Aydao‘s…
10 Ideas That Changed Our Lives
https://www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/10-ideas-that-changed-our-lives • 6 min
The Curiosity Chronicle has quickly become one of the most popular newsletters for growth-minded individuals in the world. Each week, subscribers receive a deep dive that covers topics ranging from…
The Creative Playground
https://ralphammer.com/how-to-get-started • 3 min
Have fun with drawing! Create yourself a creative playground we need a goal and rules. Here is why and how: