I have just finished reading a trio of books that have all had me thinking about how we will think and work alongside digital tools. The first up was Garry Kasparov’s book Deep Thinking – Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins. Kasparov has been an advocate of the ‘centaur’ approach to humans and[…]
Last night I went to see Germaine Greer talking at the Sydney Festival. I have long been a fan of Greer—that doesn’t mean that I agree with everything she says or does—but she is, in my view, a deep cultural thinker that always throws up interesting questions. After last night, I came away with a[…]
Creativity is a broad topic, but broadly I think there are three types or areas of creativity which are important—and also give a framework for how to explore and relate to creative thinking. Personal creativity. I think we are all creative. That hasn’t always been the case, in the past creativity was seen as the exclusive domain[…]
Creative thinking is an art—and fortunately also a science. What I mean by that is we can observe and define creativity, and through that research create a framework for our own creative thinking. Research shows that there are 16 aspects or categories of traits to a creative personality—I list these down below. This research comes[…]
There’s so much talk about innovation and disruption that it can be hard to put it into practice. When an organisation says—we want to be more innovative—what exactly does that mean and how should individuals respond. On the surface innovation seems easy, it’s just about coming up with different ways of doing things, so new[…]
I am currently spending some time with my parents and being with my father reminds me of what a contrarian he is. With a slightly cynical view, he comes at every issue from the opposite side to you and challenges your view. With any issue, he says, the first thing you must do is attack[…]
We are at a critical point when it comes to information. The death of the advertiser-funded model has put both and upwards and downwards pressure on the value of information. Now, if you want good information, you will have to pay for it. But if you can’t afford to pay for it or don’t want[…]