On December 17, 1843, Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol. In his preface to this influential book he wrote, “I have endeavored in this Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers…

Standing there on the sidelines I was impressed with how the others were playing. It seemed like they had superpowers, as though they were endued with some special something that set them apart for success. Counting numbers, measuring metrics, I…

Our spaces can get crowded very easily. Especially internal ones. With so much cramming to invade the door marked ‘attention’, it’s easy to forget that the inner world we carry with us everywhere we go was never intended to be…

It’s crazy maddening to have a baby growing inside and no way to push the screaming idea out. Some people I know have been pregnant with a book for decades and despite occasional Braxton-hicks they just get fatter and heavier…

Let’s face it. Ideas are abundant. There is no shortage of creativity. By its very nature, creativity is self-generating – ideas lead to ideas in ever-expanding circles. But not all ideas are equal. Not all ideas deserve your best attention…