Creativity Top 5: Week of September 9, 2013
/As I mentioned on Facebook, the video The Fox went from discovery to amusement to overexposure to tired-of-it in the span of six hours.
In praise of laziness
/The most obvious beneficiaries of leaning back would be creative workers—the very people who are supposed to be at the heart of the modern economy. In the early 1990s Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist, asked 275 creative types if he could interview them for a book he was writing. A third did not bother to reply at all and another third refused to take part. Peter Drucker, a management guru, summed up the mood of the refuseniks: “One of the secrets of productivity is to have a very big waste-paper basket to take care of all invitations such as yours.” Creative people’s most important resource is their time—particularly big chunks of uninterrupted time—and their biggest enemies are those who try to nibble away at it with e-mails or meetings. Indeed, creative people may be at their most productive when, to the manager’s untutored eye, they appear to be doing nothing.
Making Magic with Pixar: Maker Camp Field Trip 2013
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Maker Camp, a six-week virtual summer camp for teens, wrapped with a Google Hangout field trip to Pixar that includes great insights from Pixar University and a live Q&A with Pixar designers.