Here's a creativity brain puzzler: Is it better to break new ground or to keep polishing the same act until it gleams? It depends, to a degree, on for whom you create in the first place. Also: Jackie Chan, treading water, private eyes, the changeup pitch, Eurovision, litigation, the verdict of history, singularity, space shoes, The Shipping Forecast and quite a bit, actually, about the eternal villainy of The Beach Boys' Mike Love.
In this episode we're talking about tools of the trade. Every creative trade has them. But they function in a variety of ways: As...
This week we're talking about doing what you're bad at. Why do some people charge blindly full speed ahead, and others try to shrink...
Is it frivolous to do creative work when the world seems to be falling apart around you? Or can it be a palliative --...
