creativity

The photo shows a modern building with clear geometric patterns and sharp lines. The facade is grid-shaped and features open balconies. The multi-story structure impresses with its minimalist design and stands against a clear blue sky. The combination of structure and color emphasizes the contemporary architecture. You can download this and more photos for free and in full resolution on unsplash.com. Here is the link to the photo The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

Hidde de Vries writes in »The writer, the text and the audience« for hidde.blog What the artist puts in and what the audience experiences could amount to a lot or to very little. Either side could pretend. And surely, just not all art is made or enjoyed with a lot of care. But when it is, art can be truly special. And impossible to compute. ...

Recently I had a conversation with an experienced manager responsible for over 300 employees. She expressed the view that in the next ten years we could see such significant advances in artificial intelligence (AI) that the skills shortage will no longer be a problem and we could all work less for the same productivity. I find that perspective interesting, but I’m more skeptical about what AI can actually do. While AI can certainly help automate repetitive tasks, I find the fear that AI could fully replace human creativity and complex interpersonal skills problematic. Creativity is more than recognizing patterns; it involves creating something entirely new — something that often has subtle, authentic nuances. ...

Esther Perel posts on Instagram Creativity is an active engagement with the unknown, it’s risk-taking, it’s curiosity, it’s exploration, it’s discovery, it’s mystery. It’s all of that.

Automattic announced in its blog post “Shipping Tumblr and WordPress” that Tumblr blogs will be migrated to WordPress. This decision was foreseeable after large parts of the staff were moved to other projects and the attempt to revive Tumblr failed. Going forward, the same product will technically be marketed under two brand names. In the long run this will probably be reduced to a single brand — I’d bet on that. ...