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Tag: creativity

Variance

Christmas #23 - One hundred sigma
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I’ve been back

from my holiday and mired in the depths of unemployment for almost three weeks now. It’s often thought of as a paradise, but in reality it’s a little bit depressing, this not having …

Creative restlessness

Everyday is like Sunday
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In the previous

post, the talented young man known as wauterboi offered up a variety of perspectives on the creative process with regards to music, but I found one particular response really interesting:

I do not

Keeping secrets

This morning I watched a TED Talk by the bright and enthusiastic (at least from this one talk) Derek Sivers. Like every other TED talk I’ve watched, it spoke very immediately to a practise that I’ve been guilty of, but …

Equations of war

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This is why

I loved physics during my undergrad. A video popped up in my TED Talks feed today entitled, ‘The Mathematics of War’. You can watch the video here, and I recommend you do. It’s …

dopamine.

Watched a documentary on creativity and mental disorders last night. Here’s the description from the channel program:

“Award winning pianist, Nick Van Bloss, had his career destroyed mid-performance by his Tourette’s Syndrome. Struck by the illness as a child, music