The Wright Brothers knew they were going to crash, yet tried to fly anyway. Unlike their competitors, the former bicycle mechanics brought extra parts to the sand dunes to make onsite repairs and ...

If creativity is seeing old things in new ways, then getting weird is a good way to get more creative. All grand inventions, theories, and creatives ideas are composed of small ideas. Smart folks like ...

What if creativity wasn’t the enigmatic, unpredictable spark we’ve long romanticized, but instead followed a set of underlying principles, almost like a formula? Imagine if the brilliance of a Picasso ...

The game of Go played between a DeepMind computer program and a human champion created an existential crisis of sorts for Marcus du Sautoy, a mathematician and professor at Oxford University. “I’ve ...

“Combinatory play,” said Einstein, “seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.” Ruminating on the necessity of both reading and writing, so as not to confine ourselves to either, Seneca ...

Author Austin Kleon first published his book Newspaper Blackout in 2010, a collection of poems made from Sharpie-tipped redactions of newspaper articles. His follow-up book, Steal Like An Artist toes ...