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Education

Density equals energy

May 1, 2010

There’s power in connectivity. There’s freedom in constraints. Creativity isn’t a profession, a state of mind or even a type of class. It’s the answer to a problem. It’s the lifeblood that too many people toss aside as unimportant or irrelevant to their daily lives. Creativity is achieved through collaboration, whether physical, psychological or emotional. [...]

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Opening up

April 7, 2010

Far too many great conversations happen in private. We keep them bottled up, hoping to preserve the feeling we had when it occurred. Like a fond memory of high school, these talks are remembered in a way that can never be equalled. Unless they happen over email. Untethered by 140 characters and free to say [...]

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Broadcast conferences suck

February 27, 2010

Conferences, seminars and presentations, take heed; your time is limited. Broadcast isn’t the future, collaboration has taken over. Collaboration breeds learning. Collaboration breeds solutions. Broadcasting transfers knowledge, which is the lowest form of thinking. Collaboration goes beyond that. It’s easy to get speakers that will preach to the crowd, it’s hard to get teachers who [...]

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Creativity: process AND habit

February 11, 2010

We were all creative once. We did things without asking, we colored outside the lines and we wrote paragraphs that rhymed. We did these acts instinctively. We did them out of habit. And then, somewhere along the way, we were taught another way. We were told to follow someone else’s rules. So we grew up [...]

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