May 20, 1990: Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson’s remarkable Kenyon College commencement address on creative integrity.
How creativity works – associative vs. bisociative thought, or habit vs. originality
do we really need all these “stuff”?
Anything that you do, conscious or not, that can be observed by another is an act of communication.
the context always matters.
Truth
Beauty
Form
To some degree we are all afraid of change, when we shouldn’t be
True confidence comes in the ability to genuinely take criticism
change doesn’t mean improvement
and new doesn’t mean better
2 we need to get this straight.
Environmental consciousness and the entire green movement is not about saving the world; Mother Earth would probably live on for millions of years. We are doing it to save us, human beings, from eventual extinction.
and so perhaps, please, we should get our act together.
learn by doing
