creative
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All Creative People Are Liars: 3 Ways to Use this Superpower
Admittedly, the headline is bit of a fib. But hear me out: Several years ago, marketing guru Seth Godin made waves with his seminal tome All Marketers are Liars, which quickly became required reading at many a creative agency. The title, designed to provoke, raised both eyebrows (and sales) as it explored how successful marketers…
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It’s Never Too Late to Be What You Might Have Been
George Eliot writes “It’s never too late to be what you might have been” and a century and a half later, Rebecca Mead, in a New Yorker essay titled Middlemarch and Me tries to find the origin of the quotation, which she first read on a refrigerator magnet.
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Keep the Aspidistra Dying: I’m an Artist Not a Creative Entrepreneur
When you’re a broke-ass-art-person, there’s about million podcasts and blogs and online courses encouraging you to create podcasts and blogs and online courses to help monetize your creative process by sharing it with other artists who, in turn, will create more podcasts and blogs and online courses. It’s time to stop…
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That Time My Fear of Artistic Inauthenticity Met The Fear Doctor
Wherein I face my fear of artistic inauthenticity by visiting The Fear Doctor, Hunter Franks, and getting a prescription for what ails…
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If You’re Searching for Artistic Relevance, Don’t Start with Google – Start with Fellini
Had an existential crisis today and began worrying about the relevance of my own work but I was able to deflect my crippling self-doubt into an inquiry into the relevance of relevance instead.
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3 Creative Lessons a 24 Hour Musical Can Teach You
My daily schedule is a minefield of playdates, meal-makings and writing deadlines. But in no particular order. And with little consistency week to week, despite the valiant efforts of my editors to at least get my column in on time. They could put me on a train in Mussolini’s Italy with an Underwood under my…
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Stop Reading Business Books
Fast Company blogger Emily Heyward suggests forgoing business books and indulging some fiction.