Maria Popova is the editor and creator of interestingness at Brain Pickings. Debbie Millman is the inquisitive mind and voice behind Design Matters. (Note: you can skip directly to the "combinatorial creativity" section of the audio above if you prefer.) Maria Popova explores the idea of "combinatorial creativity" on her blog in myriad contexts and ways. One of her head-on looks at the idea is ...
Midlife Blog
Change
The world I want to live in is a world powered by change. It is a world driven by design thinking, disruption, and... a world of greater simplicity and greater complexity than ever before... We must savor the little moments; allow them to change us. Love our experiments... capture the accidents... [and] eschew the known quantity... let’s not forget our capacity for wonder, gratitude, and ...
Midlife Midwife I
That damned phone, my bride declares, is your mistress, your mobile paramour, object of your desires and confessions, your intimate moments, and lusty caresses. (Source: "Mobile Midwife I", 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed) Heheh... Excerpted from a piquant volley between an exasperated bride and an OS-obsessed deadbeat husband. These opening lines are all but cribbed from the beguiling lips of ...
Crescent Moon
A return to the crescent moon, an image and an idea that I've probed elsewhere, "Cuckold Moon" and Cuernos, for example... I've been fascinated with the shape and mystique of the delicate lunar arc. And I think I first began writing about it right after college. This crescent moon doodle is an absent minded scribble from a meeting or phone call. It's nothing, means nothing. It's just a whimsical ...
Nutrition
Nutrition, food tests, dairy free, gluten free, cycling, skiing, recycling, standing desk, elliptical laptop holder, eating healthily while traveling, water, water, water... I've been hyper focused on nutrition and fitness lately in a way that I never was before. My metabolism has been offering enough wake up calls for a couple of years, but I'm good at bumping the snooze bar. And denying the ...