Neil Perkin: It’s part of the reason why I have such little patience for the view that we all have one self-evident purpose in life and it is simply a matter of being brave enough to follow it. Whilst…
Experimenting our way to purpose
creativity
A collection of 17 posts
Social media sanity checks the Rogue One way
It’s not hard to find this adorable: Yes, it’s the CGI team from Industrial Light & Magic, watching reaction videos to the [trailer for *Rogue One*](http://www.starwars.com/video/rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-official-teaser-trailer), the forthcoming *Star Wars* movie. In a…
Influence and power in the age of the YouTube celebrity
YouTube celebrities – like comicbookgirl19 above – are the fastest growing media stars of our age, yet a group much of the mainstream media seems utterly unaware of. There’s an interesting piece arguing that female YouTube celebrities have greater influence amongst…
Escaping the tyranny of the team
There’s no doubt that the thing I miss most about corporate life is the team camaraderie. I haven’t really had a team for three and a half years now. I work largely by myself, and that can be…
What does it mean to be creative?
Compelling exploration of how creative minds function: As psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who has interviewed creative people across various fields points out, creative people “show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead…