Now Entering: [DECLUTTER] Mode
If it’s not sentimental and we’re not using it, out it goes. First line of attack: kitchen. The more we shed, the less we have to pack & move next year. Simplifying is now in full bore. That is all.
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Behance interview: David Lai
Lots of parallels in this interview, like, “design by committee” - my version is “Death by Committee”. Also, “…[creative] potential is in everyone” my version - see the Myth list on the front page at Creativity Applied. Not that any of the ideas are new; what’s new is pushing the concept that everyone’s creative.
Relaxing and slowing down is also key to creativity. Except people don’t want to slow down b/c they are deadline driven. It’s easily possible to carve an hour of downtime out of a schedule that is inefficient from multitasking.
Doing multiple things simultaneously compromises quality of all tasks. Many times tasks are done twice or more as a result of mistakes or incompletions arising from partial focus. Doing things once with more focused energy frees up time to re-energize and have better focus - it’s a self perpetuating cycle.
I’d like to implement mandatory down time into project timelines, and between projects, and compare productivity efficiency between the presence or absence of down time. This would be especially interesting in a creative environment, which is almost always intensely deadline driven.
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Inaki and Lee talking at the post keynote speaker reception. Phone cameras suck, but I’m glad I followed my gut and caught this one in something other than my own memory.
SparkCon blog is up
Deborah will be blogging live during the conference to try to capture the atmosphere. I’m glad she was able to kick in at a time when many of us are running on adrenaline; she’s fresh, so it’s gonna be good.
Call me crazy, but it sure seems buzzy here. Here’s the SparkConblog I set up.
24 hour countdown
Today we have a final run-through of our workshop agenda & practice session with facilitators. We’re also entering in all the scholarship nominations and doing a final confirmation email blast to registrants. Tomorrow our Mayor introduces our Keynote speaker and we kick this thing off. Read the rest of this entry »
home stretch - SparkCon
We’re down to 3 weeks until Raleigh’s first creative conference. We are all pretty much bald. Because all of us have full time jobs on top of planning a major event that has not only workshops and everything that goes into making them happen, but also helping coordinate the peripheral events. Like a fashion show. And bands. And restaurants. And other creative people who want to play with us as part of the event. Read the rest of this entry »
