YakShaving

Yak•Shaving (noun) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem

Tag: creativity

The gulf between ability and ambition

Nice, someone’s made an infographic video of my favorite little part of Ira Glass’s video about getting better at something. I posted first about it here, but saw it on HackerNews today. Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.

a reminder on the value of different perspectives

Yesterday, I was helping a friend and colleague at ID work on an exciting new platform for eBooks delivered on a backlit display and was shocked and pleased with how easily I was able to provide feedback, give and receive ideas and inspiration. Not only was this (hopefully) helpful to Dan, but also to myself [...]

The Shift Index to motivated smartypants: “Get Better Faster,” people

The Shift Report from the Deloitte Innovation Center for the Edge just came out, and some of the findings were fascinating. The executive summary and the findings make well reasoned, intuitive sense. What’s great about it is that a lot of it fits directly in line with what we’re envisioning with Bettr@. I feel like [...]