Maybe it's just what comes across my particular desk, but seems like it shd be a bigger deal that both the EU and US have approved a sorta-kinda HIV vaccine--a shot that gives 99% protection for 6 months--and it's to be produced royalty-free in 120 poor nations w/ high HIV rates.

That's high praise... youtu.be/JdA9_mtXYME?si…

"I did a complete 360"

This is also why firms die

"Many creative minds overrate their most baroque works, and underrate the simple ones." -- Benoit Mandelbrot

Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That’s your source of power.

Find better problems

using your nepotism to bring daniel day lewis out of retirement is the correct and right thing to do

I could use this bottom line to show the shape of the creative process, with wider and more aggressive arcs. You are constantly switching phases, circling back, pausing, and zig-zaggng. It's not meant to be linear.

Interest is a major ingredient in the motivation of creative achievement.

Personality aside, this is a life philosophy infused with a deep understanding of creativity, and it's impact

Sad news. Margaret Boden’s book The Creative Mind influenced my thinking on creativity early on. Her notion of transformational creativity remains relevant today. Of all the things people knock LLMs for lacking, transformational creativity is the true prize.

Creativity does require fuel. But it also requires rest. In my thinking, I use the idea of "breathe in, hold, breathe out". Inhale: Explore by taking in the ideas of others, hold: rest and let the ideas incubate and percolate, then breathe out: your attempt at original

A great thinker on creativity. I often refer to her concept of "transformational creativity"

Interesting review, on expanding our understanding of the umwelt with remarkable examples from animal life, and this wonderful idea of multiple intelligences

Today's state of AI: non-creative but very useful. Usefulness will improve without it becoming more creative.

Start early, keep at it. True for most things.

It all changes when the work is the motivation

The city vs the country. Scenery is easy to sell on a brochure, creative energy is more difficult to explain: you know it when you feel it. New York has the most energy of the places I've been to.

You may know “a murmuration of starlings,” but did you know that a group of crows is called “a murder” and peacocks “an ostentation”? Remembering beloved artist Brian Wildsmith, who died 9 years ago today and whose wondrous mid-century illustrations sent me on this rabbit hole