You Will Die

Yes, you will. You will die. Probably not at my hands. But some day your ticker will stop ticking and the lights will go out. Then what’s left? A lifeless sack of meat and bone – then your spirit departs. Everything that represents you is either given away or shoved into a box and sunk…

Forget the World

“Forget the world. Let’s make the world a better place.” I’m convinced this should be the approach of an artist. Here’s the deal: A great artist wants to make the world a better place. Our love for beauty and truth make us want to make a lasting impact. And a lasting impact requires breaking the status…

How Should I Take This?

So, lately, folks have been hating on my blog. It’s not like they leave a trollish comment or anything like that. They just criticized me by posting something on their timelines. Mind you, they’re my “friends”. So I see them hating on my blog posts. But they don’t have the decency to tag me in…

4 Paradoxes of Creativity

There will never be enough books on creativity. That’s because we’ll never be able to fully figure it out. Obviously, if the God of the universe is the supreme creative being, how could we hope to fully understand it? It’s so far above us. And one of the craziest things about creativity is the seeming…

Adapt or Die

It always shocks me when I see innovative companies dying. Look at Yahoo! (I’m not commanding you. I just didn’t know if I could add a period after an exclamation point.) They were once my search engine of choice. Then Google came along. Yahoo tried to keep up for a while but slowly faded into…

The 3 Apexes of Creativity

When was the last time you saw a brilliant invention and thought, “I could have done that.” Probably yesterday? It’s an extremely common sentiment. We see something so brilliantly simple and realize that’s well without our reach to create something like that. Yet we didn’t. Why is that? Obviously, skill isn’t the apex of creativity.

Not Too Much

Yesterday I had one of my monthly blogging discussions with my brother and dad. Every month I further convince them they need to be blogging and show them the new tools and goodies I’m using. My brother has finally caught the blogging bug. He’s going through the long process of becoming a published author and…

Exploit Your Weakness

Don’t you love taking personality tests? My favorite is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). According to it I’m an ENTP. Apparently, the ENTP’s “primary interest in life is understanding the world that they live in.” Yep…that sounds about right. I’m pretty proud of that facet of my personality. But along with the good comes the…