There are a many reasons that one could point out to explain why the Star Wars prequels were as bad as they were*. The most poignant reason that I see is the lack of constraints Lucas had when creating episodes I, II, & III. No constraints crushed his creativity. Budget, time and limited special effects [...]

My talk at Ignite Denver 2012:

“As artists and professionals it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In the uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture. We overthrow the programming of advertising, movies, video games, magazines, TV and MTV by which we have been hypnotized from the cradle. [...]

Investor Mike Maples argues that too much money causes you to pursue losing strategies for too long to the detriment of the winning strategy. Embrace the constraints of minimalism for a more creative business. Check out the video below:

Bea Johnson, author of The Zero Waste Home blog, was a successful artist who owned lots of art materials and supplies with multiple pieces in art galleries. But she was also feeling frustrated by a recent lack of creativity. When she moved homes, she left behind a lot of the art supplies, and in her [...]

I just read about the story behind Steve Jobs famous black-turtle-neck-and-jeans uniform in his biography, it goes like this: In Japanese factories all the workers where uniforms, something that started after the war when no one had any clothes and it bacame a way of bonding workers to the company. Jobs learned of this and [...]