SpiralTruth

This is a great presentation by Christopher Penn on ways to coax your inner creative genius out of hiding. In it, he explores five almost mechanistic techniques that actually make your mind feel like less of a machine and more like the effortless fountain of inspiration we’d like it to be. Wander on an aimless journey of association, turn things into black boxes so you can chain them together (a good software developer will have this form of thinking burned into the circuits of his brain), draw parallels between past and future, experiment with artificial variations of tools and techniques, or start with an already great idea and figure out what it needs to push it to an even higher level. These may seem like simple concepts, but this presentation makes them look fresh again, and if the role of a really good teacher is to point out what you already know in a way that encourages you to go even further in our necessarily solitary search for Truth, then I suggest that Mr. Penn is definitely one of the best.