"First of all, let's ask the questions: What do we need the skin of a car for anyways? What's it there for? Does it have to be metal? Do we always have to make it in the same manner?"These are the que...
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Step inside the Wild Beasts' transfixing music video for the falsetto lilting song Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants. The video employs the droste effect, an Escher-esque immersive technique in which...
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Alexandre Enkeril over at Disparate opens a recent reflective blog post about respect between academic disciplines with this interesting passage:The diversity of skills, expertise, and interest is esp...
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Several nuggets of insight and good advice for Creative Generalists in this article - The Never-Ending Debate of Specialist v. Generalist - about computer technology, catch-all Craigslist job postings...
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...[H]ere's the real crux of it, the thing that puts bounce in the step of the ones already on this path - there is the chance to be part of possibly the greatest project in the history of civilizatio...
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Some reflections on dilettantism, job searching, organizations, and personal branding, among other things, from the Unrepentant Generalist...One other interesting development during this job search wa...
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I knew what I was getting myself into. While in London several weeks ago I caught one of the two big Radiohead concerts in Victoria Park. I think there were something like 60,000 people there on that ...
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There was an article in the National Post earlier this week describing how The Black Knight's immense popularity is helping to lift the fortunes of beleaguered Canadian 3D theatre operator IMAX. Not o...
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My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared. -- P.J. Plauger
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R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was an inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, poet, cosmologist one of the great American visionaries of the 20th century. Best-known as the inventor of the ge...
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Been wandering around curiously checking out the gaming and virtual world spaces lately. Lots of really cool and very exciting things happening. There's the phenomenal (and in my opinion well-deserved...
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Pras Sarkar (of Yahoo! Research) delivers a must-read post full of superb advice for those seeking that sublime if elusive balance of employment and generalism. The title alone is worth the price of a...
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Don't forget the Little People - a tiny street art project.
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Complex systems - hell, even simple systems - can often be difficult to describe; to make palatable and understandable without trivializing or oversimplifying. Two great ways to explain systems are to...
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Here's another good example of the Synthesize & Summarize service that Creative Generalists provide. JOVA is a creativity portal launched earlier this year by Sarah Boden-Dawans. She saw a gap to help...
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I like to see this sort of thing... a job posting specifically tagged for Creative Generalists.
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This past Saturday I attended Russell Davies' wonderfully inspiring Interesting 2008 (2nd annual) "conference" (more of a casual salon-meets-speakers-corner get-together) with about 200 or so other cu...
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Few business books have had the widespread and sustained resonance that Blue Ocean Strategy by INSEAD professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne has. Published just a few years ago, it's already a cla...
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I'd say this qualifies as pretty clever: Architect Secretly Builds Epic Scavenger Hunt into NYC Apartment.Eric Clough isn't your typical architectural designer. Sure, he'll design you a fine den or ki...
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Noel, a member of "The Society of Creative Generalists" Facebook group, mailed me recently to ask:"I am curious to know what the prevalent type is among Creative Generalists on the Myers-Briggs... may...
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