Is productivity killing your creativity? aka turn off the smart phone!

Mr. Analog · June 14, 2012, 05:01:22 PM

Quote from: Tom on June 14, 2012, 04:37:22 PM
Quote from: Thorin on June 14, 2012, 03:44:13 PM
They could've easily put in a few raised grass terraces along the side, or small trees, or stuff like that. You know, flora.
They'd still have to replace all the grass and plants after most events.

Doesn't seem to be a problem at the Legislature bandshell, funny that.

Tom · June 14, 2012, 06:39:46 PM

Don't ask me. I just know that the grass was completely trashed at most events on the square.

Lazybones · June 14, 2012, 07:40:00 PM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on June 14, 2012, 05:01:22 PM

Doesn't seem to be a problem at the Legislature bandshell, funny that.

Don't recall ever going to any events at the Legislature... However I worked at Taste of Edmonton for a few years in a row, lots of thick lines of standing people in a very small space... the grass doesn't have a chance.

Mr. Analog · June 14, 2012, 10:25:09 PM

It gets quite busy down at the Ledge, though nothing like taste of Edmonton...

I just hate that they paved everything.

Great if you're a skater or a food truck though.

Darren Dirt · October 16, 2012, 10:38:07 PM

Quote from: Darren Dirt on June 14, 2012, 02:10:31 PM

Quote from: Thorin on June 14, 2012, 01:31:11 PM
Figuring out solutions while driving - that's the point this article is basically making; when you stop trying to get more input (reading, mostly) your mind has time to wander and it starts connecting things.

So you're saying most of the people of the world would be less miserable and more creatingy if they just lowered the size of their brain cache...

creativity -- a byproduct of divergent thinking? or of [slight] crazytown?
http://jezebel.com/5952239/?post=53583217 (insightful comment for a brief article)

Mr. Analog · October 16, 2012, 10:41:54 PM

I'm not so sure, sometimes it happens and novel ways of achieving tasks occurs but also sometimes getting a leg-up on some ideas branches new, more powerful ideas without having to get mired in details.

I love that at any time I can look up how anything works, and then take that into my own mind and roll it around. Sometimes I connect dots that weren't connected before, and that is the best feeling ever!!

Darren Dirt · October 16, 2012, 10:42:37 PM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on October 16, 2012, 10:41:54 PM
I'm not so sure, sometimes it happens and novel ways of achieving tasks occurs but also sometimes getting a leg-up on some ideas branches new, more powerful ideas without having to get mired in details.

I love that at any time I can look up how anything works, and then take that into my own mind and roll it around. Sometimes I connect dots that weren't connected before, and that is the best feeling ever!!

and stuff like this can help (surprisingly)

http://forums.righteouswrath.com/index.php/topic,4203.msg26317.html#msg26317
^ this post I just made helped me re-discover the above-linked cool "Random Sentence Generator" (i.e. creativity-triggerer)

Mr. Analog · October 16, 2012, 10:51:05 PM

Yep, sometimes all it takes is a little push!

Darren Dirt · November 26, 2012, 11:20:25 AM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on October 16, 2012, 10:51:05 PM
Yep, sometimes all it takes is a little push!

creativity/improvisation/"flow" MRI study -- with freestyle rappers
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/11/99-problems-but-fmri-aint-one-rappers-help-scientists-study-creativity/

I wonder how those "above the 80th percentile language wizards" would be helped/hurt if on the screen above the MRI there were regular click-results from a Random Sentence Generator?

see also: TED Talk (Nov2010) "Your brain on improv" http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_limb_your_brain_on_improv.html

semi-related: funny/sad how back in the Old Days, the following could easily be a bookmarklet, and now due to security restrictions etc. it's tough to make it do its thing in all major browsers...

Spoiler

javascript:zu="http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/RandomSentence/RandomSentence.aspx"; zs='<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd"><html><head> <title>Creativity Tool -- Random Sentences!</title></head> <frameset rows="*,*,*,*"><frame src="'+zu+'"><frame src="'+zu+'"><frame src="'+zu+'"><frame src="'+zu+'"> <noframes>HTML5 I guess?</noframes></frameset></html>';zw=window.open(''); zd=!zw?"":zw.document; if(zd){zd.open();zd.write(zs);zd.close(); self.blur();zd.focus()}

[close]

Darren Dirt · June 05, 2015, 01:49:51 AM

Technology is killing creativity -- confirmed by disembodied British voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_JOM-sVbKI

from "Cracked but with more learninating!" -- more Deep Funny @ https://www.youtube.com/user/thugnotes/videos