We seem to have a knack for kidding ourselves that a holiday is as good as a vacation. 

Be warned, this piece is meant to irritate you on Labor Day (in the USA and maybe elsewhere with the “u” laboured back into labor).

Let's change how we look at change to see if we can change our attitude toward change.

If at first you don’t succeed, trying again and again might be mere stubbornness.

Some time ago a friend told me that she is now deliberately without intentions. Confused, I asked her to clarify.

Thanks to Murphy, we know that if something can go wrong, it will. But that does not mean we should help Murphy.

If you always do the same thing in the same situation, then you are being consistent. But what if the situation has changed? Or new facts emerge?

Oh, these lazy, hazy days of summer. The perfect time to sleep at work. You’ve never done that?

This is Part 3 of 3 of "If You Want To Be More Creative, Do This First: Boost Cognition, Cacophony and Cheating"

A picture may paint a thousand words, but that sort of painting will no longer happen in this newsletter. It seems that pictures in emails add more than just a thousand extra words. They also trigger spam detectors and other creative AI thingies that are designed to make life better for us but don’t.

From now on you will have to “picture this” without pictures from me. But don’t fret. I will give you three words to boost your creative picturing of this and of that.

Cognition. Cacophony. Cheating.

This is Part 2 of 3 of "If You Want To Be More Creative, Do This First: Boost Cognition, Cacophony and Cheating"

A picture may paint a thousand words, but that sort of painting will no longer happen in this newsletter. It seems that pictures in emails add more than just a thousand extra words. They also trigger spam detectors and other creative AI thingies that are designed to make life better for us but don’t.

From now on you will have to “picture this” without pictures from me. But don’t fret. I will give you three words to boost your creative picturing of this and of that.

Cognition. Cacophony. Cheating.