June 11, 2010

Writing and Regular Expressions

Just write. That’s what the blog post told me to do to get better at writing so that’s what I’m doing. I’m writing whatever comes into my head and I’m giving myself permission to fail. Permission to write junk that won’t be useful for anything but fodder for the delete button. I keep reminding myself [...]

June 4, 2010

The Call to Creativity

The tedious tasks are not always the low hanging fruit. The reason tedious tasks persist is that the water is muddy. Our vision is blurry. Our view is cloudy. However the underlying truths in solving all tasks still remain. Namely that seeing the real problems, finding discreet steps, exploring unconventional options, and persistence in breaking [...]