Lately I’ve been scouring the nets and local book-lenders for guidance and inspiration on writing. I stumbled on this at Nieman Storyboard [recommended, and the source of this post's title]: Now, just as I don’t know what a story is going to be when I start out working on it, I have no idea how to [...]
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Reflecting on last weekend’s talk on creativity I worried that probably emphasized the “open” aspect of the creative cycle at the expense of the “closed” aspect. My gist seemed to be, “Don’t worry about anything… try everything, and fantastic creations will magically appear.” Given the circumstances, I’m happy I erred that way rather than the other. We [...]
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There’s been a lot of press for Alison Gopnik’s new book, The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life. Via Bookforum, here’s my lazy way of linking to this review … (and more and more and more and more and more and more). And here’s a short video. Here’s also an opinion piece at the New [...]
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