Ira Glass on the skill – taste gap (2): Do it now
When asked at an event if he had more to add on the skill – taste gap: I don’t know… That was something that I… Read More »Ira Glass on the skill – taste gap (2): Do it now
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Ira Glass on the skill – taste gap (1)
Ira Glass seems to have coined (or popularised) the idea of the taste-skill gap. Here’s an extract from the original interview (video below) – the… Read More »Ira Glass on the skill – taste gap (1)
Jamey Stegmaier (Stonemaier Games): Your Idea Brilliant, Your Idea is Worthless
I just came across this 2016 blog post from Stonemaier Games – the people behind the beautiful Wingspan, among others. Recommended. Here’s a snippet: Your… Read More »Jamey Stegmaier (Stonemaier Games): Your Idea Brilliant, Your Idea is Worthless
David Hume on combinatorial innovation and hybridity
With apologies for the anachronism… Nothing, at first view, may seem more unbounded than the thought of man, which not only escapes all human power… Read More »David Hume on combinatorial innovation and hybridity
Mind at Work: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton, MVPs and innovation by accretion
/əˈkriː.ʃən/a gradual increase or growth by the addition of new layers or parts: “The gradual accumulation of additional layers or matter.”the accretion of sediments in… Read More »Mind at Work: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton, MVPs and innovation by accretion
Personal Best
You can’t run a personal best every time, and trying to do so will make it less likely that you’ll improve by much at all.… Read More »Personal Best
Guillermo Del Toro on Duel as fuel; Or, Carrying Things on Your Own
One huge moment, and a peculiar one, was when I first saw a movie I revere and watch in awe every year: Steven Spielberg’s Duel.… Read More »Guillermo Del Toro on Duel as fuel; Or, Carrying Things on Your Own
A world class sentence
Could you write a world-class sentence – one that wouldn’t look out of place in a classic or a bestseller? Here are a three for… Read More »A world class sentence
Katherine Rundell on children’s books and imagination
Children’s fiction… offers to help us to refind things we may not even know we have lost. Adult life is full of forgetting… When you… Read More »Katherine Rundell on children’s books and imagination
Katherine Rundell on learning from children’s books
Children’s books today do still have a ghost of their educative beginnings, but what they are trying to teach us has changed. Children’s novels, to… Read More »Katherine Rundell on learning from children’s books