Sometimes creative people fall into the originality trap. They focus so much on originality that they lose focus on the other half of the creativity equation: effectiveness. To be creative, an idea much be both useful and unique. Listen to the podcast here: Ignoring either side of the equation is a recipe for disaster. Usefulness
Creative work is often lonely. Most creative work requires long hours and deep thought. Personally, I think one of the most creative jobs out there is computer programming. It requires an incredible amount of problem solving. Unlike most other professions, when you make a mistake as a programmer, you can’t simply ignore it. Add to
Creative problems are rarely well defined. Whether you’re an artist, a scientist, or an entrepreneur, when you’re creating something new, you have to deal with a lot of ambiguous problems. Nowhere is this easier to see than in entrepreneurship. When sales go down, you have to figure out why. Is something wrong with the product?
We all hate filling out Captcha forms every time we log into a website, but there’s a certain genius to Captcha that many people don’t know is there.CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart”. It’s… quite a handful. It came about as a creative response to an ever