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Messy workspace, tidy workspace: two modes of creativity
What your workspace reveals about your creative process
21 hrs ago
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Coleman McCormick
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Weekend Reads
On pursuing curiosity, Dana Gioia's writerly life, building selfish software, and did the Greeks see color?
Mar 1
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Coleman McCormick
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February 2025
Copy first, create later
The natural path from imitation to creativity
Feb 21
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Coleman McCormick
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Materials and mastery
How masters build expertise through deep understanding of their medium
Feb 12
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Coleman McCormick
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Hardy Boys and Microkids
A review of Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine"
Feb 7
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Coleman McCormick
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January 2025
DeepSeek and constraints
Finding innovation where no one else is looking
Jan 31
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Coleman McCormick
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Mixing zones and creativity
Recombination as a source of novelty
Jan 24
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Coleman McCormick
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Composable ideas
Synthesizing new ideas from existing ones
Jan 17
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Coleman McCormick
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The simplest thing that could possibly work
Start simple, learn, iterate, advance
Jan 10
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Coleman McCormick
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"I'm not a morning person"
Morning people are made, not born
Jan 7
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Coleman McCormick
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My Favorite Posts of the Year
Closing out a year of Res Extensa with a callback to some of my favorites
Jan 1
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Coleman McCormick
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December 2024
The Best Books of 2024
My favorite books I read this year
Dec 19, 2024
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Coleman McCormick
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