Will Work for Magic: Creativity and Play at SXSWMy latest scheme to improve productivity and creative flow: Screw around. Waste time. Make stuff. Banter. Play.
Your Word Processor Is Distracting YouI kicked Microsoft Word to the curb seven years ago, and my plain-text world has been more productive ever since.
Magic Boxes, Canned Chaos and Creative TotemsA creative totem distracts you from the mundane and everyday just long enough for your mojo to kick in and save the day.
Optimal Time for Optimization“Avoid premature optimization” is one of the axioms of software development. It’s basically fancy talk for “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”