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"What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do is ship," says bestselling author Seth Godin, arguing that we must quiet our fearful "lizard brains" to avoid sabotaging projects just before we finally finish them. ... or to me the importance of setting deadlines, objectives and planning to not sabotage your creative work!

scary guy ..... his 'shipping' philosophy and his 'everybody is creative' line is close to Marx description of alienation ... I share more Stroustrup point of view "The idea of software development as an assembly line manned by semi-skilled interchangeable workers is fundamentally flawed and wasteful."

I don't think that is what he says, I think he says that everybody _can_ be creative but to be so you have to actually create things!

excellent paper easy to understand and containing interesting ideas on what is creativity in a computer program (DI)

nice article (in italian, sorry) that made me think that we should seek for artificial creativity rather than AI

Do you lack inspiration? Feeling not creative (enough)? How about doing something really really boring?

"Developers, designers, innovators all kinds of creative thinkers" aka "nerd objective-C programmers with no life"?

Well, the ACT actually proposed a few of the topics (BEWARE, THERE BE CUCUMBERS!). Some are not necessarily software based, like creating a LEGO model of the ExoMars rover (although they stripped LEGO from the challenge description and now it just says "create an ExoMars rover from hardware" ... ). Also we had no clue that they would host part of the challenge here at ESTEC - so our 5 or 6 challenges will all be hosted in Rome... ...

For all the AI guys (Christos, Marek, Ed, Markus and co ...) and of course Luiz, Sante ... You will like this one :-)

Quite a lot of blabla, some usual misconceptions (like QT the source of randomness in nature), but a -- from my point of view -- very true (though in the text somehow hidden) conclusion: Free will, creativity etc. from the point of view of fundamental physics are just randomness! Many physicists won't like this conclusion, though, and in this respect also the title is rather misleading!

by Maria Popova "Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought." For as long as I can remember - and certainly long before I had the term for it - I've believed that creativity is combinatorial: Alive and awake to the world, we amass a collection of cross-disciplinary building blocks - knowledge, memories, bits of information, sparks of inspiration, and other existing ideas - that we then combine and recombine, mostly unconsciously, into something "new."

nice link from toby .... it contains some of the things that I have been saying to the wind!!

"Do something only you would come up with-that none of your friends or family would think of." - according to them, this is one of their success recipes .... a recipe for the team?

>Get moving. I always said that fitness test should be included in the recruitment process!!!

A very simple, but very creative application of evolution! Try it with your images. You can read about the first implementation of this kind here: http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/08/12/09/0238252.shtml

This looks like a list of inspiring phrases to put around Horizon.. which is your favourite? Mine's probably 'Drink ridiculous amounts of coffee.'

well - might well be that the first experiments just measured that Americans are a bit more stupid or don't remember what a candle is ... :-)

The Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users. It was created by people who like to speculate, both as a form of satire and as a form of creative expression.

Thousands of creative minds from all over the world will come together in Amsterdam for the third PICNIC

We're all here about inventiveness and creativity, so here you go... Story of a guy who's life's motto has been "Gold lies on the streets and you just need to dig it up with ideas. Ideas are like the shovel" Add to it Monte Carlo, Marlene Dietrich and, say, King Farouk and you get quite an amazing story... And most of all, after reading this you'll know the value of knowing how to ski.

nice story indeed ...

An oldie but a goodie, " As you will never be sure which are the right problems to work on, most of the time that you spend in the laboratory or at your desk will be wasted. If you want to be creative, then you will have to get used to spending most of your time not being creative, to being becalmed on the ocean of scientific knowledge"

already forwarded it to other researchers in desperation phase :-D :-D

Oh, I like this one. One more point for swarm intelligence! :)

We could have come up with an inspiration like this !!! As creative as the roots :-) "These male amphibians use their calls to attract the female, who can recognise where it comes from and then locate the suitor. The problem arises when two males are too close to one another and they use their call at the same time. The females become confused and are unable to determine the location of the call. Therefore, the males have had to learn how to 'desynchronise' their calls or, in other words, not call at the same time in order for a distinction to be made."

And the actual paper link with some graphs: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810012000037