The cybernetic creative
Carl Jung speaks of the “daimon” of creatives, and the difficulty of balancing intense energies. The daimon is not necessarily a demon, but a muse …
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Play cures Burnout
Creativity generates positive energy. You will be tempted to be creatively productive, to make something with utility, but don’t succumb to that instinct: Make something …
Creativity: to rebel against your foundation
Our attempt for surety (or fixity) is a draw to stable descriptors of the world by which we may navigate. We may push off from …
The Energy of Combat vs Comrades
Interpersonal conflict drains you. Anger and despair create desperate energy, which exhausts. The better path is to collaborate with comrades: generate creative energy, powering you …
Trained to be creative
We are trained since childhood to be users, and by this I mean owners… not necessarily makers or thinkers. We are prepared by "choice architectures" …
Creativity is expensive and brave.
Given a real world situation there are a set of constraints leaving maybe 2 or 3 realistic, rational, and cost effective options open. Thus, we …
Discontent Drives Innovation?
They say "discontent drives innovation" and our willingness to creatively engage in the world is to fix it, to make it better. Yet, this rings …