Archive - Creative Discourse

Everything comes with an expiration date… even ideas

There’s a reason most novels, business startups, and innovative creative ventures suffer quiet deaths of abandonment.

Aug 15 •

July 2025

Anecdotal evidence matters more than you think…

In a world awash with “big data,” should a lack of objective measurements render individual observations irrelevant?

Jul 25 •

June 2025

Distraction is necessary for creativity

A little divergent sidetracking now and again might be every bit as important to the creative process as actually doing the bloody work.

Jun 21 •

May 2025

Incuriosity in the age of ‘AI’

AI isn’t the problem. The utter lack of curiosity among the people using it is the real worry.

May 31 •

From the archives: F-ck the whole business

Profanity isn’t merely ornamental. It instead serves an incalculably important role in our self-expression…

May 24 •

Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for a creative dystopia

There’s an apocalypse coming for the creative world, and it’s being brought to us by the uninspiring mind of Mark Zuckerberg.

May 9 •

April 2025

Professional freaks, and the worlds they ruin

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”

Apr 26 •

From the archives: Punk Rock Politics

Nothing makes me feel more punk rock than the utter rage I feel each year while being bullied by bureaucratic revenuers for an ever-larger slice of my…

Apr 16 •

‘And then’ is no way to tell a story

We should think about what we need to do to make our goals become a natural consequence of our daily actions.

Apr 12 •

Tariffs, storytelling and the cult of personality

Is there a lesson about public discourse we can wrest from our current moment of intransigent bullheaded politics?

Apr 5 •

March 2025

Do you feel emotionally manipulated yet?

Storytelling is, inherently, manipulative. But not all manipulation is inherently exploitative.

Mar 29 •

Learning to waste time well

Creativity needs the space to incubate — and nothing supplies that space quite as well as doing nothing.

Mar 20 •

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