Harvard Business Review’s blog The Conversation is doing more and more interesting stuff and I don’t read it enough.
But check this out – absolutely worth it: The Anti-Creativity Checklist. Use it on yourself, try to use it as leverage with your clients and colleagues, work hard to avoid the traps. The title of this one is, I think, the last item on the list, and is my hands-down favorite.
Alright then, I’m going to go out and play.
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I couldn’t make it through the whole checklist, as I believe this is the actual checklist used by most science funding agencies. Essentially, they ensure continued future resources by funding low-risk/iterative-improvement science rather than fund anything with a high risk of failure. And since the folks with the best grasp of safe, iterative science are senior scientists, then young, creative scientists have to struggle to find any funding. Not that I’m bitter.