Infrastructural Amorphism: What Bruce Lee Knew About Design
Bruce Lee wasn't preaching freedom. He was preaching delegation. The post Infrastructural Amorphism: What Bruce Lee Knew About Design appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
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Italo Calvino, Design, and the Multiverse: Vibrant Unexpected Connections
My notes are not a storage unit: they're a graph of possibilities. When I revisit the right nodes, patterns emerge that are useful for thinking and designing. The post Italo Calvino, Design, and the Multiverse: Vibrant Unexpected Connections appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Anti-Entropy: from atomic fragments to knowledge molecules
My Problem with the Creative Process Intellectual dispersion: I read and write without method, accumulating mountains of notes but producing no synthesis. My Zettelkasten archive has become a chaotic attractor, which according to systems theory is a system that captures energy (your readings, thoughts, fragments) but fails to crystallize it into emergent structures. My creative [ ] The post…
How I didn’t write this article
I ve had the idea for this piece at least six times. I know it s six because I found them all in the same folder, each with a slightly different title and the same amount of developed text: none. Here s how it works. I get an idea — one of those that light up your brain, [ ] The post How I didn t write this article appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Tools You Don’t Wield
In theory, if blended with a process that aids thought, anything can be a mental tool. The post Tools You Don t Wield appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Generating Infinite Worlds
When we design, we should introduce more emergent complexity. The post Generating Infinite Worlds appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Find the System
Systemic reflections on knowledge, representation, and chaos. The post Find the System appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Convergence of Ideas
From scattered thoughts to an active archive, I’m transforming ideas into meaningful creations. What future am I inventing? The post Convergence of Ideas appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Creative Growth Reflections
Delving into creativity's journey, emphasizing growth from setbacks and the transformative power of embracing challenges in the creative process The post Creative Growth Reflections appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
From Toys to Systems
Exploring the journey from childhood curiosity dismantling toys to embracing Systems Thinking and Design Thinking in professional growth. The post From Toys to Systems appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
From Idea to Lightning
Exploring creativity's journey, from gathering ideas like charging air particles to the thunderous impact of realization, akin to lightning strikes. The post From Idea to Lightning appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Navigating Creative Seas: The Top-Down and Bottom-Up Voyage in Writing
Exploring creative writing approaches: structured, purposeful Top-Down method versus spontaneous, organic Bottom-Up journey. The post Navigating Creative Seas: The Top-Down and Bottom-Up Voyage in Writing appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Charting the Course Through My Personal Knowledge Base
Exploring the organization of a PKB: the challenge of capturing diverse information and synthesizing it into coherent knowledge. The post Charting the Course Through My Personal Knowledge Base appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Exploring Personal Knowledge Management: A Process of Growth and Connection
An habitual creativity challenge to refine the process to observe, understand, learn and apply knowledge. The post Exploring Personal Knowledge Management: A Process of Growth and Connection appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
The Joy of Hosting Conversations in a Creative Sprint
CREAZEE Sprint 6 on Co-Design, Networked Thinking, and Visual Facilitation. With Massimo Curatella and Quinten Lockefeer The post The Joy of Hosting Conversations in a Creative Sprint appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Social Innovation through Strategic Foresight, a conversation
Futurology and Strategic Foresight in the Healthcare System. A conversation with Giorgia Zunino about Futures Thinking and Social Impact. The post Social Innovation through Strategic Foresight, a conversation appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Building confidence with deliberate practice, a CREAZEE Sprint with David Orban
With David Orban about polymathy, learning, failure, mistakes, zooming in-out, joy of living, building confidence, climate crisis, creativity and surprise. The post Building confidence with deliberate practice, a CREAZEE Sprint with David Orban appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Idea Curation, Visual Note-Taking, Conversational Explorations
Content curation, visualizing conversations in real-time (as in this case), collaboration, PKM and the role of AI in learning. A new video. The post Idea Curation, Visual Note-Taking, Conversational Explorations appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Human-Centred Design and Decision-Making Process Facilitation
Making decisions in large no-profit organizations benefits from structured facilitation. An interview with Antonella Pastore, designer, facilitator. The post Human-Centred Design and Decision-Making Process Facilitation appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Launching CREAZEE Sprint
In an informal conversation with a good friend, I explored creativity, songwriting, filmmaking, and how music can help people to be more hopeful. The post Launching CREAZEE Sprint appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
ChatGPT for Creativity and Creation, Hands-On Review
I used several Artificial Intelligences write about how I recreated an Habitual Creativity Course and tested it. The post ChatGPT for Creativity and Creation, Hands-On Review appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
ChatGPT is CREAZEE
Exchange between Massimo Curatella (bold) and ChatGPT. I was curious about developing my idea for a daily writing habit challenge course that I started in 2021. The post ChatGPT is CREAZEE appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
You Can’t Always Invent
If we have a system to capture ideas when and where they come to our attention we prepare the building blocks for our next piece. The post You Can’t Always Invent appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Why is it interesting?
Hoarding information is different from building up knowledge. When we fall prey to information overload, we suffer from the failure of our attention filter. The post Why is it interesting? appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Conjuring Creativity
We become more creative with addition and subtraction: by removing distractions and waste and adding stimuli in time and space. The post Conjuring Creativity appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
One Year Blogging Challenge Complete
I wrote and published 365 blog posts, meaning, I've been writing for one year, every day. The post One Year Blogging Challenge Complete appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
New Beginnings?
The day before completing my 365 daily post writing challenge, I am thinking about my next habit-forming strategy. The post New Beginnings? appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
The Pleasure of Connecting Knowledge
It's nice to find somebody else treating the topics that you love in a clear and entertaining way. The post The Pleasure of Connecting Knowledge appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Lousy transcription
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To Clarify Make The System Visible First
Luck is not the wisest choice in sensemaking. The post To Clarify Make The System Visible First appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
More Reading, Then Writing
Shall I do "a year of draft writing"? The post More Reading, Then Writing appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Explaining the reason for a failure is illuminating
A precise, documented and motivated description of the exact work I am not doing. The post Explaining the reason for a failure is illuminating appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Spending time with people to learn and getting inspired
How do you know what to design if not researching what your users want, need, desire? The post Spending time with people to learn and getting inspired appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
How to receive brutally honest feedback
And only at the end try to give context, application, and audience. The post How to receive brutally honest feedback appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Write about what interests people you know
It becomes essential to have a collection of real people corresponding to the conversations I like to have and would like to develop. The post Write about what interests people you know appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Fighting the blank page with networked notes
all sounds good. Let's see what practicing it will look like. The post Fighting the blank page with networked notes appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
The Metaverse is a jungle
It’s a fantastic always-changing fluid technological world and we need to be responsible and careful in living it. The post The Metaverse is a jungle appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Annotating Podcasts and Connecting Contextually
I would call that a partial success. I am looking to improve this knowledge capturing workflow because I like how it started, I don't like how it ends. The post Annotating Podcasts and Connecting Contextually appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Write for your future, past, and present self
Leverage on this multiplicity by identifying your three selves as real persons whom you can talk to. The post Write for your future, past, and present self appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Learning Expands Our Senses
How can we keep the curiosity active? Playing a musical instrument for the first time can be an exhilarating experience. Discovering the capability of producing the notes of those songs that we love is an unforgettable memory. The nature of those songs change ad well. It s not anymore just a tune to hum indistinguishably but [ ] The post Learning Expands Our Senses appeared first on Massimo…
Reflecting on voids and missed opportunities (draft)
It's in the behavior: a sequence of actions leading to order or disorder according to different points of view. The post Reflecting on voids and missed opportunities (draft) appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Approaching the horizon
I wrote every single day. What about the rest? What did I learn? What did I build? These are the kind of questions it will interesting to ask myself. The post Approaching the horizon appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
How to decide if to rebuild or adapt a new system
In very complicated systems, if you discover that the update is more convenient than the rebuild you might save a lot of time and resources. The post How to decide if to rebuild or adapt a new system appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Discovering complexity by writing
Writing facilitates focus and depth in understanding. If you do it with dedication. The post Discovering complexity by writing appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Ultimate Testing
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. The post Ultimate Testing appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
How to prepare and run a software demo: prompts
Presenting a piece of software is a [[presentation]] so anything applicable to the art and craft of presenting can be applied to software as well. The post How to prepare and run a software demo: prompts appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Macro and Micro
I've found two extremes in my reflections: big moments to think about big things and little moments to think about small things. The post Macro and Micro appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Relax, don’t do it
Sometimes you can make no sense. Who cares, anyway? The post Relax, don t do it appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
Challenge Your Ideas In Public to Become More Innovative
Being original, innovative means having the courage of letting go of your banality The post Challenge Your Ideas In Public to Become More Innovative appeared first on Massimo Curatella .
The Knowledge Creations Process
Can we brand a thinking process? Think about a toy brick, a 2-by-4 piece. It s standard, created with high precision to respects specific dimensions, shapes and feature. Now think about what you can do with that piece. Within its constrained shape it offers infinite combinatorial possibilities with multiple instances of itself. Now take a set [ ] The post The Knowledge Creations Process appeared…