The following blog post is a conversation between myself and my partner, Dr. Bruce Sawhill, Stanford educated theoretical physicist and mathematician. There’s a new video on Creativity & The Adjacent Possible here. Creativity & The Landscape Of Creative Evolution Most of us understand the word monotony, especially now that we’re sheltering in place and living house-bound […]
Creativity & The Adjacent Possible
Click on the arrow above to play the video. Creativity & The Adjacent Possible Hi there, we’re back with the second foundational concept for creativity, and that is the adjacent possible. This is a concept from evolutionary biology described by doctors Bruce Sawhill and Stuart Kauffman at the Santa Fe Institute. This scientific concept describes […]
Life, Death & The Nature Of Creativity In The Time Of COVID-19
The following blog post is a conversation between myself and my partner, Dr. Bruce Sawhill, Stanford educated theoretical physicist and mathematician. Because this post is intense at times, we added a bit of Gilbert & Sullivan for levity. There’s a new video of last week’s blog post here. Life, Death & The Nature Of […]
Creativity & The Unconscious In The Time Of COVID-19
Creativity & The Unconscious In The Time Of COVID-19 The following blog post is a conversation between myself and my partner, Dr. Bruce Sawhill, Stanford educated theoretical physicist and mathematician. On this fifteenth day of March, 2020 we observe the Ides of March. In 44 B.C. the assassination of Julius Caesar precipitated a turning […]
Creativity & Stepping Into The Unknown
Creativity & Stepping Into The Unknown In these times of uncertainty, art lights the way. I was honored to be interviewed by Rachel Rose of The Artful Soul series where we talked about creativity and the Unknown. Rachel has an entire series of lectures on art and healing. We’re continually evolving as artists, […]
Creativity, Yogi Berra & The Nature Of Existence
If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be. Yogi Berra Philosophy is where you find it. The Story Of Three Umpires There’s an urban legend around the American sport of baseball that has not only to do with perception and subjectivity, but about the very nature of reality itself. It goes back at least […]
Creativity: Simplicity, Constraint & Occam’s Razor
Creativity: Simplicity, Constraint & Occam’s Razor Back in the time of Dante, an English Franciscan friar named William of Ockham (1287–1347) invented the ‘lex parsimoniae” , a problem-solving principle that states, It is futile to do with more things that which can be done with fewer. Occam’s Razor This is also known as “Occam’s razor”, […]
Creativity, Voltaire & The Fallacy Of Optimization
Creativity, Voltaire and the Fallacy of Optimization In a recent blog post, we talked about the Goldilocks Zone, a place where life and creativity can flourish, whether we’re talking about the conditions for life emerging on planets around other stars or the conditions for cultivating your very own creative life. We briefly touched upon the […]
Creativity, Exaptation & The Light In Plato’s Cave
In previous blog posts, we delved into the processes underlying creativity, pulling in stories from diverse sources including fairy tales and astrophysics, evolutionary biology, mathematics and physics and the cycle of the seasons. In our daily conversations at home, we realized we had an illustrative story that combined two of these concepts from our very own lives […]
Creativity, The Artist’s Journey & The Goldilocks Zone
Creativity & The Goldilocks Zone Most of us remember the story of Goldilocks and her encounter with the three bears when she went for a perfectly innocent journey through a deep dark forest and came to an innocuous house whose door was wide open. Of course she didn’t find anything odd about this situation (because […]