The Joy of Writing

Fragments from imaginary dialogues — “What is creativity?” “To quote Steve Jobs, Creativity is just connecting things. I call this the Connections model of creativity. Creativity is Connecting. I must say, I love this model. I love it so much that I have the word ‘Connections’ tattooed on my right forearm.” “I like to pair…

Fragments from imaginary dialogues There is One Word that defines who you are. One Word that connects all the things in your life that make you come alive. (Evan Carmichael) “What is Your One Word?” “It’s a beautiful idea I know from Evan Carmichael’s book with the same name. …

Fragments from imaginary dialogues — “What is Learning?” “By looking at it through various lenses, you get a more nuanced view. We can look at it through the lens of Behavior. There’s a quote I love which I know from Eben Pagan (one of my Heroes): Learning is behavior change. For me, this expresses a…

Fragments from imaginary dialogues “Models Thinking (or Modelling) is like Magic the Gathering.“ “How?” “I’ve connected the two systems of meaning, thus creating an emergent system. …

Fragments from imaginary dialogues “One of the things I love about Magic the Gathering is its modularity.” “What do you mean?” “The best analogy is with Lego. You have a number of colorful interlocking pieces which can be connected in countless ways to create objects. In the same way, in…

Fragments from imaginary dialogues “What is the most important feature of your CommonBook?” “Randomness.” “Randomness?” “I view the commonplace book as a tool, so essentially practical. I’m collecting all this knowledge to use it. The commonplace book as a system achieves its purpose only in so far as and to…

The purpose of querying an oracle is not so much to foretell the future as to enable the questioner to delve more deeply into his own intuition when dealing with a problem. Most oracles contain a series of messages from which the questioner randomly selects. The oracle is intentionally ambiguous…

I’ve only had a smartphone for about two years now. I knew from the very beginning that I wanted to use it only as a productivity tool. At first I wasted hours upon hours looking for and testing all kinds of apps. I installed so many of them that I…

Fragments from imaginary dialogues “I used to collect stamps and stickers when I was a child. Later I started collecting pictures. Now I collect linguistic tools and strategies for Self-Actualization…