Category: A Philosophy of the Moment
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Creative thinking and you. Creative thinking and the world. People and how they talk about it, why being ‘creative’ is sometimes confused with being ‘artistic.’ Why is the subject of being creative something that we overcomplicate? I believe that everyone can do something in a creative way. That’s taking the job of making something new,…
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My site, Kismuth, has been quiet for a long time. I decided to refresh it and change the focus for it for the next few months. Writing books is great and I love writing them, but it’s not enough to simply post them and wonder if anyone cares. So, I want to get back to…
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‘Run your own race, don’t compare your success to others and keep your eye on the prize,’ writes Danielle Page in this article on metrics of success. I like ‘run your own race.’ I’ve not seen that one before, cool. Like many other articles on the subject of success, Page starts with the idea that…
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At any given moment, things could shift. What will you do when that happens? Creative thinking can help when things look murky. What is creative thinking? Let’s talk about what creative thinking is. When do you find yourself in flow? I feel that noticing when you are in flow is a major part of learning to…
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I made a limited edition of one issue of S P A C E for this week. It’s not for sale. It’s not for digitizing. It’s not for sharing. It’s just for… me. Sometimes it’s that simple. Do what you want. Imagine. Wanting to do something just because you want to. For yourself. Because that’s…
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I found a new quiz, ‘Big Five.’ https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/personality-quiz/ It’s mentioned in psychologist Brian Little‘s 2017 article ‘How your to-do list shapes your personality — and how to use it to remake who you are’ at TED. The blurb to introduce it is: Many of us believe there are two driving forces behind the person known as…
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Update: Here is a recent story in the Associated Press about the closure of a community newspaper in a rural part of the United States. ‘Even though philanthropists and politicians have been paying more attention to the issue, the factors that drove the collapse of the industry’s advertising model haven’t changed. Encouraging growth in the digital-only…
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This week’s issue is in the shop. It’s called ‘Layers.’ So far so good in the 200s series. There was ‘Pieces,’ then ‘Photozine 1999-‘, and now ‘Layers’ is ready to share, too. Each of these is a cut-and-paste re-work of past media here in the archives of Design Kompany and my personal photography collection, too.…
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This time it’s a photozine. Members-only issue, this time. Get the membership when you pick up a subscription, for a ‘3-month pack of S P A C E’. You can do that at the crowdfunding page for this zine. The link is: http://chuffed.org/project/spacethezine Checkit.
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Going to start a new thing, for July, online. See &Cojournal, over at my writing site, Kismuth. Here is a link. Making time for writing that is just for you