On Creativity

Perhaps the most intimidating thing about beginning my career at Organic was that it is a creative firm. Although I’ve always surrounded myself with professional creatives and various other artsy type folks, I never really considered myself one. I didn’t paint, I didn’t draw, I didn’t design really. I was an appreciator.  I had a… Continue reading On Creativity

On Friends and Loneliness

Do you read Penelope Trunk?  Because you should.  It’s funny though, as a “career expert” she does very little writing that is explicitly about careers.  It all relates to careers somehow, but she mostly just writes about things we don’t want to acknowledge about ourselves and about life.  Like how you shouldn’t do what you… Continue reading On Friends and Loneliness

Awesome Find // A Peek Inside the Creative Process

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/24268139 w=400&h=300] When the following gem popped up in my Google Reader today, I knew I had to make my feeble attempt at spreading it far and wide into the interweb. And while there is certainly no lack of awesome videos on the web that I could share with you… this is one of… Continue reading Awesome Find // A Peek Inside the Creative Process